Water Policy Processes in India: Discourses of Power and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780415627405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Vandana Asthana

Opis

This title analyses the processes through which water policies in India are developed and implemented. It investigates the aims and motives behind policies and identifies the potential areas of intervention in order to improve the policy process in both its development and implementation stages.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Changing The Frame: Repositioning Policy  3. The Process Of Economic Liberalization And Private Sector Participation  4. Water In The Liberalization Process  5. Situating Delhi In The Water Reform Project  6. Mainstreaming Policy: Discourses Of Power  7. Creating Spaces For Change: Collective Action On The Water Reform Project  8. Understanding The Water Policy Process

O autorze

Vandana Asthana teaches international politics in the Department of Government at Eastern Washington University, USA. Her previous publications include: Politics of the Environment; India’s Foreign Policy and Sub Continental policy; Theory of International Politics and two co-edited volumes Security in South Asia: Trends and Directions and Advances in Environmental Biopollution. She is the Founder member of the IC Centre for Governance, New Delhi, and the Founder Secretary and Member Advisory Panel of "Eco-Friends", an NGO working on water issues in India. She has served as consultant and completed a project for the Government of India on the Water Security and is a Board member of the South Asian Studies Association.