%0 Journal Article %T Instituciones anidadas para prevenir y resolver conflictos socio-ambientales: manejo y distribuci¨®n del agua en Campo Alegre (Huila, Colombia) %A V¨¦lez %A Mar¨ªa Alejandra %A Ramos %A Pablo Andr¨¦s %A Alay¨®n %A Laura %J Cuadernos de Desarrollo Rural %D 2011 %I Pontificia Universidad Javeriana %X this article examines the case of irrigation canal in campo alegre usoigua, huila, in south western 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 forpreventing socio-environmental conflicts are studied. %K socio-environmental conflicts %K institutional analysis %K management of water resources %K social sciences %K social interaction %K social conflicts %K social norms. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0122-14502011000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en