Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
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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