Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors 1. Introduction The focus on collective action Putting power and politics at the centre of water governance analysis Objectives Structure References 2. Power and politics in water governance: Revisiting the role of collective action in the commons Introduction Critical institutionalism and institutional bricolage Power and politics in water governance Linking spaces for engagement with the pursuit of justice Notes References 3. Collective action and political dynamics: Nile cooperation and Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam Introduction: the wider challenge of collective action The Nile: background of diversity Applying the Ostrom principles The Nile: turbulent waters and the nature of the ‘collective’ New rules, new political impasse The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: game-changer and new power-play Conclusions Notes References 4. Grassroots scalar politics in the Peruvian Andes: Mobilizing allies to defend community waters in the Upper Pampas watershed Introduction Where waters are at stake: divergent claims in the Upper Pampas Contentious collective action for the defence of water and wetlands Transnational actors and the Latin American Water Tribunal Water laws and watershed boundaries Sustainability of a dialogue platform Discussions and conclusion Notes References 5. Hydro-hegemony or water security community? Collective action, cooperation and conflict in the SADC transboundary security complex Introduction The River Senqu case Regime formation and regional cohesion References 6. Place attachment and community resistance: Evidence from the Cheay Areng and Lower Sesan 2 dams in Cambodia Introduction River basins as competing hydro-social scales Place attachment and hydropower dams The Cheay Areng dam The Lower Sesan 2 dam Conclusion Notes References 7. Politics of knowledge and collective action in health impact assessment in Thailand: The experience of the Khao Hinsorn community Introduction The rise of HIA in Thailand The politics of knowledge in HIA in the Khao Hinsorn community Conclusion: politics of knowledge and collective action in HIA Note References 8. Agricultural water management in matrilineal societies in Malawi: Land ownership and implications for collective action Introduction Study area Situating gender within landownership in Ntcheu Collective action in irrigated agriculture Water users’ association Marketing of irrigated produce Access to irrigation extension Access to inputs for irrigated agriculture Access to credit Social capital Discussions and conclusion References 9. Collective action, community and the peasant economy in Andean highland water control Introduction User-based irrigation management and community in the Andes The peasant economy and irrigation management Integrating market mechanisms and collective action in irrigation management Conclusions Notes References 10. Collective action and governance challenges in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia Introduction Context: culture, political and social upheaval and reform towards democratic governance Other spaces for collective natural resources governance: community Navigating the governance challenge: lessons from two cases of collective action assisted by action research Conclusions Notes References 11. Goldmining, dispossessing the commons and multi-scalar responses: The case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico Introduction The background: Mexico, a protectionist state takes a neoliberal path Effect of mining activity on common land and water resources International legislation Opposition to the destruction of the common land and water rights Conclusions Notes References 12. Key constraints and collective action challenges for groundwater governance in the Eastern Gangetic Plains Introduction Policies and institutional framework for groundwater management Groundwater access and governance challenges Collective action for groundwater governance Conclusion and implications References 13. Stakeholder perspectives on transboundary water cooperation in the Indus River Basin Introduction Historical overview of the Indus River Basin Transboundary water sharing after partition Pakistani and Indian stakeholders’ views on the Indus Water Treaty Dialogue as a medium to foster cooperation in the Indus Basin Notes References 14. Reimagining South Asia: Hopes for an Indus Basin network Introduction Networks, media and stakeholders Stakeholder engagement, networks and political change Networks – diagnosis, discursive empowerment and strategic synergy A primer on the Indus Basin and the importance of indicators Hydrology Socio-economic challenges Legal frameworks References 15. Structure, agency, and challenges for inclusive water governance at basin scale: Comparing the Nile with the Mekong Introduction Current institutional architecture Dam development Structure, agency, and the political economy of collective action Discussions and conclusion References 16. Power, alliances, and pathways towards deliberative and just water governance Introduction Power structures and power relationships shaping the commons Collective action and the shaping of strategic alliances Pathways towards deliberative and just water governance References Index