This paper develops and tests hypotheses relating the local (spatial) variability of rainfall to
property rights and the degree of hierarchy in tribal societies. In the presence of local …

Mounting evidence suggests that ethnic interactions damage cooperation in the provision of
public goods, yet very few studies of collective action in common pool resource …

Natural resources constitute an important axis around which rural territorial dynamics
revolve. Based on empirical registration of how applications for and denouncements of …

This paper examines how tribes, the dominant political structure in rural areas of many
developing countries, can affect the allocation of publicly provided goods. I create a dataset …

Decentralization creates opportunities to increase local control over natural resources and
thereby improve the efficiency and equity of resource management. Yet experience shows …

In this article, comparison is made between the two major types of water allocation systems
in Yemen: seasonal flood (sayl) and highland spring flow (ghayl). Constraints in the nature …

It has been argued that the ambiguities in Malawian customary tenure may aggravate
processes of social differentiation and class formation. The article investigates this claim …

The objective of this thesis is a comprehensive analysis of water allocation in the highland
valley of al-Ahjur in the Yemen Arab Republic. Ethnographic research was conducted in …

In the course of decentralization, pastoral communities in Namibia have had to find new
ways to share their most salient resource, water, and the costs involved in providing it. Using …

A common assumption about property rights among hunting-gathering peoples, including
the San of the Kalahari Desert region of southern Africa, is that access to land was relatively …