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Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the
pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and
air quality. In this collection, academic researchers and
practitioners who have lived and worked in countries as
geographically and culturally diverse as Brazil, China, India,
Ghana, Palestine, Uganda and Venezuela draw on their wide-ranging
international and inter-sectoral experience to offer valuable
comparative insights into the relationship between research and
evidence-based policy for sustaining natural resources. Their
contributions provide a novel mix of disciplinary perspectives
ranging across geography, ecology, social policy, the political
economy, philosophy, international development, engineering
technology, architecture and urban planning. They examine the
institutions involved in generating and mediating evidence about
the sustainability of natural resources in a changing environment,
and the different methodologies employed in collecting and
assessing evidence, informing policy and contributing to
governance. The authors demonstrate not only that social science
evidence on governance and policy implementation to sustain natural
resources must complement natural science inputs, but also that
local communities must be an integral part of any programme
development. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Contemporary Social Science.
This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban
water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional
capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an
efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. This book has been
developed through empirical research within the context of growing
urbanisation and increasing water needs of Indian cities, and the
wider developmental goal of achieving universal and equitable
access to safe and affordable water for all – as envisaged in
goal 6 of the SDGs.This study revolves around three important
aspects of urban water supply and governance. Firstly, it attempts
to understand household water service delivery scenarios in urban
India, drawing from case studies based on our household survey in
four cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Hyderabad.
Secondly, it examines the question of existing socio-economic
inequality and access to water in an urban context in India. While
dealing with the issue of inequality and access to water, it
attempts to explore the question of whether access to water and
water scarcity is socially neutral; whilst also analysing the
mechanisms employed by the urban poor to manage their daily water
needs. Thirdly, this book explores the role of institutions for
efficient and effective delivery of water in urban India. The
institutional analysis from a comparative perspective provides
important insights to guide current reforms in domestic water
supply in India, especially in a neo-liberal context. The book is a
valuable resource for academicians, policy makers and
practitioners involved in water governance in general and domestic
(drinking) water supply in particular. Besides, it is of great
interest to those working in the area of urban development, urban
planning and household water management. The book is an
outcome of a collaborative research project by the authors
sponsored jointly by University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi
and UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).
Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the
pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and
air quality. In this collection, academic researchers and
practitioners who have lived and worked in countries as
geographically and culturally diverse as Brazil, China, India,
Ghana, Palestine, Uganda and Venezuela draw on their wide-ranging
international and inter-sectoral experience to offer valuable
comparative insights into the relationship between research and
evidence-based policy for sustaining natural resources. Their
contributions provide a novel mix of disciplinary perspectives
ranging across geography, ecology, social policy, the political
economy, philosophy, international development, engineering
technology, architecture and urban planning. They examine the
institutions involved in generating and mediating evidence about
the sustainability of natural resources in a changing environment,
and the different methodologies employed in collecting and
assessing evidence, informing policy and contributing to
governance. The authors demonstrate not only that social science
evidence on governance and policy implementation to sustain natural
resources must complement natural science inputs, but also that
local communities must be an integral part of any programme
development. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Contemporary Social Science.
This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water
supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional
capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an
efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. This book has been
developed through empirical research within the context of growing
urbanisation and increasing water needs of Indian cities, and the
wider developmental goal of achieving universal and equitable
access to safe and affordable water for all - as envisaged in goal
6 of the SDGs.This study revolves around three important aspects of
urban water supply and governance. Firstly, it attempts to
understand household water service delivery scenarios in urban
India, drawing from case studies based on our household survey in
four cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Hyderabad. Secondly,
it examines the question of existing socio-economic inequality and
access to water in an urban context in India. While dealing with
the issue of inequality and access to water, it attempts to explore
the question of whether access to water and water scarcity is
socially neutral; whilst also analysing the mechanisms employed by
the urban poor to manage their daily water needs. Thirdly, this
book explores the role of institutions for efficient and effective
delivery of water in urban India. The institutional analysis from a
comparative perspective provides important insights to guide
current reforms in domestic water supply in India, especially in a
neo-liberal context. The book is a valuable resource for
academicians, policy makers and practitioners involved in water
governance in general and domestic (drinking) water supply in
particular. Besides, it is of great interest to those working in
the area of urban development, urban planning and household water
management. The book is an outcome of a collaborative research
project by the authors sponsored jointly by University Grants
Commission (UGC), New Delhi and UK-India Education and Research
Initiative (UKIERI).
Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in
Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into
the contested topic of 'governance and governed' from a
state-society inter-relationship perspective. It argues that the
centrality of an understanding of state-governance today is rooted
in concerns regarding diversities and contingencies of concrete
political reality to address inequalities, exclusion and
vulnerabilities. These countries are part of the BRICSs consortium,
and have been recognised for their growth potential in the world
economy. But their economic progress alone may not necessarily
translate into a better quality of life. The approach here is not
to focus on a particular understanding of governance, but to
utilise a wider lens to understand the nature and extent of
incremental processes in the different case-study contexts in order
to offer a broader framework for procedural and substantive
understanding of governance, rather than a prescription of a
government and its activity of governing. The focus is on deriving
practical lessons about governance process that are of interest to
the wider development community.
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