Water governance and collective action : multi-scale challenges / edited by Diana Suhardiman, Alan Nicol and Everisto Mapedza.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Diana Suhardiman, Alan Nicol, Everisto Mapedza -- Power and politics in water governance : revisiting the role of collective action in the commons / Diana Suhardiman, Louis Lebel, Alan Nicol, Theresa Wong -- The collective is political : lessons from the Nile Basin Initiative / Alan Nicol and Ana Cascao -- Grassroots scalar politics in the Peruvian Andes : mobilising allies to defend community waters in the Upper Pampas watershed / Andres Verzijl, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens -- Hydro-hegemony or water security community? : collective action, cooperation and conflict in the SADC transboundary security complex / Richard Meissner and Jeroen Warner -- Place attachment and community resistance : evidence from the Cheay Areng and Lower Sesan 2 dams in Cambodia / Oliver Hensengerth -- Politics of knowledge and collective action in health impact assessment in Thailand : the experience of Khao Hinsorn community / Carl Middleton, Somporn Pengkham, Areeya Tivasuradej -- Agricultural water management in matrilineal societies of Malawi : land ownership and implications for collective action / Everisto Mapedza, Emelder Tagutanazvo, Barbara van Koppen, Christopher Manyamba -- Collective action, community and the peasant economy in Andean highland water control / Rutgerd Boelens and Jaime Hoogesteger -- Collective action and governance challenges in the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia / Sanjiv de Silva, Kim Miratori, Ram C Bastakoti, Blake D Ratner -- Goldmining, dispossessing the commons, and multi-scalar responses : the case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico / Didi Stoltenborg and Rutgerd Boelens -- Key constraints and collective action challenges for groundwater governance in the eastern Gangetic plains / Ram C Bastakoti, Fraser Sugden, Manita Raut, Surendra Shrestha -- Stakeholder perspectives on transboundary water cooperation in the Indus River basin / Muhammad Azeem Ali Shah and Panchali Saikia -- Reimagining South Asia : hopes for an Indus basin network / Medha Bisht -- Structure, agency, and challenges for inclusive water governance at basin scale : comparing Mekong with the Nile / Everisto Mapedza, Diana Suhardiman, Alan Nicol -- Synthesis : power, alliances and pathways for collective action / Diana Suhardiman, Alan Nicol, Everisto Mapedza.

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