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.