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This paper will focus on issues that arise in the Lower Mekong region. Poverty is extremely high in the rural areas of Cambodia and Vietnam and access to natural resources and their sustainable management play a significant role in poverty reduction in both countries. Institutional arrangements in four villages in the Lower Mekong area (2 in Vietnam, 2 in Cambodia) will be described. The region is characterized through various forms of institutions and different overlapping and changing property rights not only with historical, political and social-economical differences in Cambodia and Vietnam, but as well as with differences through seasonal changes. Furthermore, various groups have access to the resources and use them in various ways at different times, which give the water resource system a multiple use character. Although the four villages do face quite similar natural settings and in all villages people derive their livelihoods from fishing and rice farming, institutional arrangements differ between Vietnam and Cambodia as well between the villages with each having its own history of collective action and property rights settings. This paper presents a situation analysis of the complex water management institutions in four villages, describing various factors that are crucial when examining local governance arrangements and their sustainability. Using Action Research in the field now helps to outline factors that make local institutions in each of the four villages unique as well as to attempt to generalize findings. Conclusions will be that blue-print approaches to development can not be sustainable and successful, because local governance schemes differ, even in similar natural settings.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Index -- Introduction -- Capacity Development Approaches—What to Expect from this Book -- Acknowledgements -- How to Change Structures: Governance-related Capacity Development -- The LPG Project: Collective Action for Fuel Transition among the Urban Poor -- EnerKey Long-term Perspective Group (ELPG)—A Format to Introduce Long-term Thinking in Today's Decision-making -- Building Local Capacities to Improve the Quality of Electricity for Agriculture and to Enhance Energy Efficiency -- Mobile Learning Containers (MLC) for Improving the Qualification of Workers at Construction Sites -- Training Practice and Theoretical Instruction -- Integrating Street Food in a Sustainable Food Distribution System—Food Safety Training for, and with, Street Vendors -- Waste Management—Practical Training and Capacity Building -- On-site Construction Workshops in Iran -- Wastewater Treatment— International Workshops and Online Learning Platform -- Multidisciplinary Research/Design/ Build Summer Schools: Alternative Solutions for a Water-scarce Future in Metropolitan Lima, Peru -- Education for Sustainable Lifestyles—ESL -- Training on the Way to the First Passive House in Western China -- Capacity Development through Media and Counselling -- Trying to Persuade Rather than to Force People: The Approach of the Handbook for Green Housing -- Urban Agriculture in Casablanca— Overview of the Capacity Development Approaches -- Meteorological Measurements -- Complementary Digital and Printed Learning Media on Construction Topics -- The Projects of the Programme on Future Megacities in Brief -- Authors -- Imprint