The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal
Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power struggl...
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| author | Suhardiman, Diana Bastakoti, Ram C. Karki, Emma Bharati, Luna |
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| description | Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power struggles, where state actors create, sustain, and reproduce their bureaucratic power through the overall shaping of (imagined) bureaucratic territory. It argues that river basin planning is not an antidote to current ‘dysfunction’ in water resources management, rooted in overlapping jurisdictions, fragmented decision making, and bureaucratic competitions between various government agencies. On the contrary, it illustrates how river basin planning becomes a new ‘territorial frontier’, created and depicted by different government agencies as their envisioned operational boundary and as a means to sustain and increase their bureaucratic power and sectoral decision-making authority, amidst ongoing processes of federalism in Nepal. |
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| spelling | CGSpace971732025-03-11T09:50:20Z The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal Suhardiman, Diana Bastakoti, Ram C. Karki, Emma Bharati, Luna river basin management political aspects bureaucracy transformation water resources water management water policy water institutions sectoral planning federalism decision making state intervention government agencies Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power struggles, where state actors create, sustain, and reproduce their bureaucratic power through the overall shaping of (imagined) bureaucratic territory. It argues that river basin planning is not an antidote to current ‘dysfunction’ in water resources management, rooted in overlapping jurisdictions, fragmented decision making, and bureaucratic competitions between various government agencies. On the contrary, it illustrates how river basin planning becomes a new ‘territorial frontier’, created and depicted by different government agencies as their envisioned operational boundary and as a means to sustain and increase their bureaucratic power and sectoral decision-making authority, amidst ongoing processes of federalism in Nepal. 2018-11 2018-09-13T05:17:58Z 2018-09-13T05:17:58Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97173 en Limited Access Elsevier Suhardiman, Diana; Bastakoti, Ram C.; Karki, Emma; Bharati, Luna. 2018. The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal. Geoforum, 7p. (Online first) doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.019 |
| spellingShingle | river basin management political aspects bureaucracy transformation water resources water management water policy water institutions sectoral planning federalism decision making state intervention government agencies Suhardiman, Diana Bastakoti, Ram C. Karki, Emma Bharati, Luna The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal |
| title | The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal |
| title_full | The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal |
| title_fullStr | The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal |
| title_full_unstemmed | The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal |
| title_short | The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal |
| title_sort | politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in nepal |
| topic | river basin management political aspects bureaucracy transformation water resources water management water policy water institutions sectoral planning federalism decision making state intervention government agencies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97173 |
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