Stories of a shared water - Provence Alps Pyrenees

• Author : Sous la coordination de Olivia Aubriot et Geneviève Jolly
• Year : 2002
• Language : French
• Type :    book
• Document ID :    203
• ISBN :    2-85399-500-3
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Abstract

Water is not appropriated, it is shared ! Behind this caricatural and provocative postulate, the authors peel the various facets of the anthropological question of the access to water and its division. The historical mechanisms of construction of the right, the problem of the institutions of management, of the choice of the methods of division,
the specific perception of the element "water", are as many questions tackled in connection with the agricultural use of water in the regions of Provence, alpine and Pyrenean