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Water - and its governance - is becoming a global concern partly
because it is turning into a goods in short supply, with
devastating effects on literally billions of people, but also
because it is the "carrier" ofglobal warming; whether through
irregular weather patterns or through flooding, water is how global
warming will be 'felt'. The lion's share of the globally available
fresh water resources is to be found in transboundary systems. In
spite of its significance, the generated knowledge on how to deal
with transboundary waters is weak and leaves policy makers with
seemingly unavoidable, trade-off dilemmas and prioritizations,
often with detrimental effects. In order to disentangle this
predicament this volume works with one case: the Lower Mekong Basin
and covers state-of-the-art academic and practitioners' knowledge
and hence appeals to a wide audience. The topic this volume
addresses is situated in the nexus ofan IR- (International
Relations) approach focussing on transboundary politics and its
inclination to remain within the sphere of state sovereignty and
national interest on the one hand, and Development studies, with
its imperatives on participation, planning, and intervention, on
the other.The dilemma, we argue, of better understanding
transboundary water management lies in how to understand how these
two rationalities can be simultaneously nurtured.
This edited volume seeks to provide guidance on how we can approach questions of governing and agency-particularly those who endeavour to embark on grounded empirical research- by rendering explicit some key challenges, tensions, dilemmas, and confluences that such endeavours elicit. Indeed, the contributions in this volume reflect the growing tendency in governmentality studies to shift focus to empirically grounded studies. The volume thus explicitly aims to move from theory to practice, and to step back from the more top-down governmentality studies approach to one that examines how one can/does study how relations of power affect lives, experience and agency. This book offers insight into the intricate relations between the workings of governing and (the possibility for) people's agency on the one hand, and about the possible effects of our attempts to engage in such studies on the other. In numerous ways, and from different starting points, the contributions to this volume provide thoughtful insights into, and creative suggestions for, how to work with the methodological challenges of studying the agency of being governed. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, global governance and research methods.
This edited volume seeks to provide guidance on how we can approach questions of governing and agency-particularly those who endeavour to embark on grounded empirical research- by rendering explicit some key challenges, tensions, dilemmas, and confluences that such endeavours elicit. Indeed, the contributions in this volume reflect the growing tendency in governmentality studies to shift focus to empirically grounded studies. The volume thus explicitly aims to move from theory to practice, and to step back from the more top-down governmentality studies approach to one that examines how one can/does study how relations of power affect lives, experience and agency. This book offers insight into the intricate relations between the workings of governing and (the possibility for) people's agency on the one hand, and about the possible effects of our attempts to engage in such studies on the other. In numerous ways, and from different starting points, the contributions to this volume provide thoughtful insights into, and creative suggestions for, how to work with the methodological challenges of studying the agency of being governed. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, global governance and research methods.
Water - and its governance - is becoming a global concern partly
because it is turning into a goods in short supply, with
devastating effects on literally billions of people, but also
because it is the "carrier" ofglobal warming; whether through
irregular weather patterns or through flooding, water is how global
warming will be 'felt'. The lion's share of the globally available
fresh water resources is to be found in transboundary systems. In
spite of its significance, the generated knowledge on how to deal
with transboundary waters is weak and leaves policy makers with
seemingly unavoidable, trade-off dilemmas and prioritizations,
often with detrimental effects. In order to disentangle this
predicament this volume works with one case: the Lower Mekong Basin
and covers state-of-the-art academic and practitioners' knowledge
and hence appeals to a wide audience. The topic this volume
addresses is situated in the nexus ofan IR- (International
Relations) approach focussing on transboundary politics and its
inclination to remain within the sphere of state sovereignty and
national interest on the one hand, and Development studies, with
its imperatives on participation, planning, and intervention, on
the other.The dilemma, we argue, of better understanding
transboundary water management lies in how to understand how these
two rationalities can be simultaneously nurtured.
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways - adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two decades to promote more effective water management institutions, covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new framework for a better understanding of the interaction between transboundary water management institutional resilience and global change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu) from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are developed.
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways - adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two decades to promote more effective water management institutions, covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new framework for a better understanding of the interaction between transboundary water management institutional resilience and global change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu) from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are developed.
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