Governing Water in India Inequality, Reform, and the State

• Главный автор: Fernandes, Leela (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Seattle University of Washington Press 2022
• Предметы: Asian history; Politics & government; Conservation of the environment; Water supply & treatment; Politics and government; Water supply and treatment
• Online-ссылка: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Итог

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.

Объем

1 electronic resource (298 p.)

ISBN

9780295750446
9780295750422

Доступ

Open Access