Governing Water in India
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulat...
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| description | Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulate use. State policies and institutions influenced by global models of reform produce and magnify socio-economic injustice in this "water bureaucracy." Drawing on historical records, an analysis of post-liberalization developments, and fieldwork in the city of Chennai, Leela Fernandes traces the configuration of colonial historical legacies, developmental-state policies, and economic reforms that strain water resources and intensify inequality. While reforms of water governance promote privatization and decentralization, they strengthen the state centralized control over water through city-based development models. Understanding the political economy of water thus illuminates the consequent failures of the state within countries of the Global South. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1131342025-03-20T04:16:13Z Governing Water in India Fernandes, Leela Asian history Politics and government Conservation of the environment Water supply and treatment Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulate use. State policies and institutions influenced by global models of reform produce and magnify socio-economic injustice in this "water bureaucracy." Drawing on historical records, an analysis of post-liberalization developments, and fieldwork in the city of Chennai, Leela Fernandes traces the configuration of colonial historical legacies, developmental-state policies, and economic reforms that strain water resources and intensify inequality. While reforms of water governance promote privatization and decentralization, they strengthen the state centralized control over water through city-based development models. Understanding the political economy of water thus illuminates the consequent failures of the state within countries of the Global South. 2023-08-29T04:01:59Z 2023-08-29T04:01:59Z 2023-08-28T08:11:29Z 2022 book ONIX_20230828_9780295750446_37 OCN: 1290245845 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75826 9780295750446 9780295750422 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/113134 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75826/1/9780295750446.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75826/1/9780295750446.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75826/1/9780295750446.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75826/1/9780295750446.pdf University of Washington Press University of Washington Press 10.6069/9780295750446 10.6069/9780295750446 05b43d6c-b025-4c47-9778-32ac09131cc4 b19c1210-bdad-4399-98b9-916c85ca92f5 9780295750446 9780295750422 University of Washington Press 298 Seattle [...] open access |
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