Consulting sociologist: improving community participation in land and water management, infrastructure development, and service delivery.BryanBruns@BryanBruns.com alternate e-mail BryanBruns@yahoo.com
Aiding Adaptive Co-management in Irrigation. For presentation at "Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local experience to Global Challenges," International Association for the Study of the Commons, Cheltenham, England, July 14-18, 2008
Reconstituting Water Rights: Pathways for Polycentric Praxis. Presented at “Survival of the Commons: Mounting Challenges and New Realities,” International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bali, Indonesia, June 19-23, 2006.
Water Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional Design. Edited by Bryan Bruns, Claudia Ringler, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.
For further information and to download chapters or the full book, see: http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/books/oc49.asp
Community-Based Principles for Negotiating Water Rights: Some Conjectures on Assumptions and Priorities. Paper read at the International workshop on African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa, at Gauteng, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005.
Applying Nanotechnology to the Challenges of Global Poverty: Strategies for Accessible Abundance. Paper Presented at the First Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology: Research, Applications, and Policy. October 21-24, 2004, Washington, D.C.
Irrigation Water Rights: Options for Pro-poor Reform. Paper read at the Regional Workshop and Policy Roundtable on Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia, 25-27 August 2004, at Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Bruns, Bryan. 2003. Water Tenure Reform: Developing an Extended Ladder of Participation. Paper read at Politics of the Commons: Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices, at Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 11-14, 2003.
Bruns, Bryan. 2003. Participation in Nanotechnology: Methods and Challenges. Paper read at Information to Empowerment: A Global Perspective, at Ottawa Canada, May 19-22, 2003. International Association for Public Participation.
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., and Bryan Bruns. 2003. Negotiating Transitions in Water Rights. Water Resources Impact 5 (2):22-24. http://www.awra.org/impact/0303impact.html
Bruns, Bryan. 2003. Water Rights: A Synthesis Paper on Institutional Options for Improving Water Allocation. Paper read at International Working Conference on Water Rights: Institutional Options for Improving Water Allocation, February 12-15, 2003, at Baoson International Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Bruns, Bryan, and Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick. 2003. Frameworks for Water Rights: An Overview of Institutional Options. Paper read at International Working Conference on Water Rights: Institutional Options for Improving Water Allocation, February 12-15, 2003, at Baoson International Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam. [Published version]
Bruns, Bryan. 2003. Gender and PIM; Irrigation and Poverty. Topic Pages on Participatory Irrigation Management. http://www.inpim.org/Topic_Page/topic_page.html
Bruns, Bryan. 2003. From Voice to Empowerment: Rerouting Irrigation Reform in Indonesia. In The Politics of Irrigation Reform: Contested Policy Formulation and Implementation in Asia, Africa and Latin America, edited by P. P. Mollinga and A. Bolding. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Bruns, Bryan, and D. J. Bandaragoda. 2003. Integrated Water Resources Governance in a River Basin Context: A Synthesis Paper. In Governance for Integrated Water Resources Management in a River Basin Context: Proceedings of the Regional Seminar, Bangkok, May 21-22, 2002, edited by B. Bruns and D. J. Bandaragoda. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute.
Bruns, Bryan and Pakping Chalad Bruns. 2003. Strengthening Collective Action. 2020 Vision - Focus 10: Collective Action and Property Rights. International Food Policy Research Institute.