Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia: Flows across Boundaries

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Peri-Urban Water Security in South Asia
	1.1 Setting the Scene
	1.2 Peri-Urban Cases and Approaches
		1.2.1 Selection of Peri-Urban Cases
		1.2.2 Various Engagements, Themes and Perspectives
	1.3 Urbanization, the Peri-Urban and Water Security
		1.3.1 The Urban and the Peri-Urban
		1.3.2 Understanding the Peri-Urban: A Diversity of Frames of Reference and Approaches
		1.3.3 Peri-Urban Water Security
	1.4 Key Themes in the Chapters: An Overview
		1.4.1 The Role of Material Infrastructure
		1.4.2 Property Transformations and Declining Commons: Capturing the Urban Metabolism and Ecological Footprint
		1.4.3 Socially Differentiated Access to Water
		1.4.4 Intervening in the Peri-Urban
		1.4.5 Conflict and Cooperation
	References
Chapter 2: A New Imagination for Waste and Water in India’s Peri-Urban Interface
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Study Area
	2.3 Methods
	2.4 Squandering Our City’s Water – And Waste
		2.4.1 Water Commons in Crisis: The Impact of Bengaluru’s Landfill on Lake Kannuru
		2.4.2 Sewage as a Livelihood Source: Impacts on Wetlands East of Kolkata
	2.5 Discussion and Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: From Royal Canal to Neglected Canal? Changing Use and Management of a Traditional Canal Irrigation System in Peri-Urban Kathmandu Valley
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Research Approach, Methodology and Study Area
		3.2.1 Research Approach and Methodology
		3.2.2 Kathmandu Valley, Dadhikot and Mahadev Khola Rajkulo
	3.3 From Glorious Past to Neglected Present: The Trajectory of Mahadev Khola Rajkulo Management
		3.3.1 The Glorious Past of the Mahadev Khola Rajkulo
		3.3.2 Government Intervention in Irrigation and Re-institutionalization of Community-Led Irrigation Management
		3.3.3 Changing Water Allocation and Use in the Context of Increasing Urbanization
		3.3.4 Urbanization, Declining Irrigation Service and Changing Priorities
	3.4 Changing Canal Use, Rights and Access to Water, and Water Conflict
	3.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Public Lives, Private Water: Female Ready-Made Garment Factory Workers in Peri-Urban Bangladesh
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Methodology: Our Framing of Their Stories. Ethnography in an Unequal World
	4.3 Public Water Privatized
	4.4 Living in Bhadam: Women in Masculine Spaces and Places
		4.4.1 At Work
		4.4.2 At Home
		4.4.3 Gendered Household Water Burdens: Not Negotiable
	4.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Digging Deeper: Deep Wells, Bore-Wells and Water Tankers in Peri-Urban Hyderabad
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Emerging Waterscapes in the Urban and Peri-Urban Global South
	5.3 Methodology
	5.4 Uneven Landscapes: Differential Water Access and Use in and Around Hyderabad
		5.4.1 Socio-Spatial Inequalities in the Built Environment
		5.4.2 Water as a Splintered Resource
		5.4.3 Exercising Agency in Attaining Water Access and Use
		5.4.4 Securing Water Access and Gender-Water Relations
	5.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Changing Agriculture and Climate Variability in Peri-Urban Gurugram, India
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Researching the Peri-Urban
	6.3 Context and Methodology
		6.3.1 Budhera
		6.3.2 Climate Change in Peri-Urban Spaces
	6.4 Commons, Canals and Peri-Urban Agriculture
	6.5 Changing Agricultural Patterns with Climate Variability
	6.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Views from the Sluice Gate: Water Insecurity, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban Khulna, Bangladesh
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Research Approach and Method
	7.3 Research Location
	7.4 Conflicts Around the Sluice Gate
		7.4.1 Function of the Sluice Gate
		7.4.2 Urban Versus Peri-Urban Needs
		7.4.3 Open-Water Capture Fisheries Versus Fish Farming
		7.4.4 Peri-Urban Agriculture Versus Fish Farming
	7.5 Dealing with Sluice-Related Conflicts
		7.5.1 Sluice Gate Operation
		7.5.2 Capacity Development
		7.5.3 Implementing the Plan
		7.5.4 Legal Remedy
	7.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Interventions to Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Peri-Urban Water Management in South Asia
	8.1 The Institutional Context of Peri-Urban Water Problems
	8.2 Supporting Peri-Urban Decision-Making Through Capacity Building
	8.3 APIA: Approach for Participatory Institutional Analysis
		8.3.1 Overview and Methods in APIA
		8.3.2 Piloting the APIA in Peri-Urban Khulna
		8.3.3 Impact of the APIA in Peri-Urban Khulna
	8.4 Transformative Pathways for Sustainable Peri-Urban Water Management
		8.4.1 Methodology for Designing Transformative Pathways
		8.4.2 Water Related Vulnerabilities in Peri-Urban India
		8.4.3 Designing Transformative Pathways Workshop
	8.5 Institutional Reforms in Peri-Urban South Asia: Ways Forward
	References
Chapter 9: Concluding Reflections: Towards Alternative Peri-Urban Futures?
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Summarizing the Main Findings
	9.3 Peri-Urban Futures: From Local Struggles to Transformative Changes?
		9.3.1 Engaging with the Peri-Urban: Rearguard Action?
		9.3.2 Research Needs for the Peri-Urban Space
		9.3.3 Research, Policy and Action
	References