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

• Author: Narain, Vishal.
• TeilnehmendeR: Roth, Dik.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 pages)

Table of Contents

Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- About the Editors -- 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.