Taking the road less taken
Reorienting the State for Periurban Water Security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6134714 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vishal Narain (0000-0002-8346-1122, Public Policy and Governance, Management Development Institute (MDI), India), Pranay Ranjan (0000-0002-3999-938X, Department of Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue University, USA, corresponding author), Sumit Vij (0000-0001-5252-797X, Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands), Aman Dewan (Save the Children, India) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 528-545 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1476750317736370 |
| OpenAlex | W2765959565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper describes the intervention strategy to improve water security in Sultanpur, a village in periurban Gurgaon, India. Most approaches to improving natural resource management in periurban contexts focus on mobilising the community; little attention is paid to reorienting the state or strengthening the user-bureaucracy interface. This paper describes the action research process that was followed to reorient civic agencies engaged in the provisioning of water and to break from a situation of distrust and prisoners' dilemma between water users and service providers. The paper argues that the creation and provision of a platform for direct engagement between water users and service providers can be a key tool for improving periurban water security. These platforms can provide support in building community resilience to face challenges such as climate variability and urbanisation, both of which threaten periurban water security. The action research emphasises on building the community's capacity to ask for improved water supply and to negotiate with state service providers, rather than augmenting water supply physically
Bureaucracy · Business · Dilemma · Distrust · Economics · Environmental resource management · Political science · Provisioning · Resilience (materials science · Service (business · Service provider · Water resources · Water security · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water resources management and optimization · Marketing
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |