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1 Rayner, S.; Malone, E. L. (Eds.) 1998. Human choice and climate change - Volume one: The societal framework. Columbus, OH, USA: Battelle Press. xlii, 491p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 363.7 G000 RAY Record No: H022774)
2 Rayner, S.; Malone, E. L. (Eds.) 1998. Human choice and climate change - Volume two: Resources and technology. Columbus, OH, USA: Battelle Press. xlii, 451p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 363.7 G000 RAY Record No: H022775)
3 Rayner, S.; Malone, E. L. (Eds.) 1998. Human choice and climate change - Volume three: The tools for policy analysis. Columbus, OH, USA: Battelle Press. xlii, 429p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 363.7 G000 RAY Record No: H022777)
4 Rayner, S.; Malone, E. L. (Eds.) 1998. Human choice and climate change - Volume four: "What have we learned?" Columbus, OH, USA: Battelle Press. xii, 193p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 363.7 G000 RAY Record No: H022778)
5 Lach, D.; Rayner, S.; Ingram, H. 2005. Taming the waters: Strategies to domesticate the wicked problems of water resource management. International Journal of Water, 3(1):1-17.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H 37228)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048837)
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Global progress towards the goal of universal, safely managed drinking water services will be shaped by the dynamic relationship between water risks, values and institutions. We apply Mary Douglas’ cultural theory to rural waterpoint management and discuss its operationalisation in pluralist arrangements through networking different management cultures at scale. The theory is tested in coastal Kenya, an area that typifies the challenges faced across Africa in providing rural communities with safely managed water. Drawing on findings from a longitudinal study of 3500 households, we examine how different management cultures face and manage operational, financial, institutional and environmental risks. This paper makes the case for cooperative solutions across systems where current policy effectively separates communities from the state or markets. The contribution of this research is both a theoretical and empirical case to consider pluralist institutional arrangements that enable risks and responsibilities to be re-conceptualised and re-allocated between the state, market and communities to create value for rural water users.
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