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Miners and Irrigators
Author(s) -
HEARN T. J.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.1994.tb00399.x
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , context (archaeology) , settlement (finance) , arid , distribution (mathematics) , geography , resource (disambiguation) , agriculture , political science , economics , archaeology , ecology , mathematical analysis , computer network , mathematics , finance , computer science , payment , biology
The spread of European settlement into the arid regions of the New World during the nineteenth century was accompanied by protracted and contentious debate over the allocation and use of water, interest group competition and conflict, and conflicting pressures for legal change. This paper describes the origins and course of changes in the legal and institutional arrangements governing the distribution and use of water in Central Otago in the context of the transfer of the resource from gold mining to irrigation farming during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.