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Bryan Bruns ![]() |
| Online Status | OFFLINE |
| Member Since | 04/02/2008 |
| Website: | www.bryanbruns.com |
| Location: | Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, USA |
| Occupation: | Sociologist |
| Company: | Independent Consultant |
| Address: | PO Box 4614 |
| City: | Santa Rosa Beach |
| State: | FL |
| Zip Code: | 32459 |
| Country: | USA |
| Phone #: | 850 308 1272 |
| Short Statement: | Consulting Sociologist, helping people participate in improving management of water and other natural resources, infrastructure development, and service provision. Specializing in participatory water resources management, community involvement in irrigation system development, water rights institutions, and environmental governance. |
| Displacement Experience: | Observation of reservoir project displacement impacts, during dissertation research in Northeast Thailand and during consulting work in Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines. Preparation of resettlement framework for Asian Development Bank project in Indonesia. Some involvement in displacement issues as part of other project preparation, implementation, and evaluation work. |
| Publications: | Water Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional Design. Edited with Claudia Ringler and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute. 2005. Negotiating Water Rights. Edited by Bryan Bruns and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. London: Intermediate Technology Publications. New Delhi: Vistaar Division of Sage Publications, India. 2000. Articles and other publications listed on website: www.bryanbruns.com |
| Accomplishments: | Contributed to introduction and implementation of participatory irrigation management in Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Developed ideas and brought more attention to negotiated approaches to water allocation and governance of basin water resources as common property, including documentation and analysis of local experience and showing the potential of negotiated approaches to water governance as an alternative or complement to state administration and water markets. |
| Highest Degree: | Ph.D. Development Sociology. Cornell University. |
| Cote d'Ivoire:Protest by Social Scientists |
| A large group of West Africa, Europe, and North American academics and social scientists, many of whom are students of population displacement, have signed onto an editorial written and circulated by a group of West African academics and social scientists. They argue that the former President of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, is abusively clinging to power after having blatantly tried to falsifiy the recent elections. The point out that international bodies have confirmed that the opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, has defeated Gbagbo. Nonetheless, the Gbagbo and his military supporters prevent the access to power of the newly-elected President. The likelihood of renewed violent conflict, civil war, and bloodshed in Cote d'Ivoire is high and increasing, involving obvious risks of renewed massive uprooting and population displacement. |