Instituciones anidadas para prevenir y resolver conflictos socio-ambientales: manejo y distribución del agua en Campo Alegre (Huila, Colombia).

This article examines the case of irrigation canal in Campo Alegre Usoigua, Huila, in southwestern Colombia. From an institutional approach, Community arrangements and formal forms of regulation that have emerged as a set of nested institutions for handling the resource in times of shortage and for preventing socio-environmental conflicts are studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]