Vandana Asthana

Water Policy Processes in India

Discourses of Power and Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically liberalizing India. This book assesses the dynamics of water policy processes in India. Using the case study of Delhi's water situation, it analyses dynamics of policy process in India in general and more specifically in the post economic reform era.

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Water Policy Processes in India covers a critical gap in the literature by analyzing the process through which policies in India are developed and implemented, investigating the aims and motives behind policies, and identifying the potential areas of intervention in order improve the policy process in both its development and implementation stages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415778312
• ISBN-10: 041577831X
• Artikelnr.: 26985049

Autorenporträt

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 .

Inhaltsangabe

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