Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power stru...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Bastakoti, Ram C.
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Karki, Emma
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Bharati, Luna
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[The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal]
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The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal
Poor performance of government managed irrigation systems persists globally despite numerous policies over the last four decades to address the problem. I argue that policy efforts to improve irrigation performance in developing countries fail in part because they are often formulated in isolatio...
Suhardiman, Diana
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[Linking irrigation development with the wider agrarian context: everyday class politics in water distribution practices in Rural Java]
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Linking irrigation development with the wider agrarian context: everyday class politics in water distribution practices in Rural Java
Prosinger, Jana
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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[Linking climate change discourse with climate change policy in the Mekong: the case of Lao PDR]
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Linking climate change discourse with climate change policy in the Mekong: the case of Lao PDR
Previous analysis of transboundary water governance has been focused primarily on state-centred approaches. The articles in this special section move us forward from this focus in three ways. First, they highlight the crucial role played by non-state actors in shaping water governance outcomes. S...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Giordano, Mark
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[Process-focused analysis in transboundary water governance research.]
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Process-focused analysis in transboundary water governance research.
We examine the patterns and characteristics of private investment in Laos, and how these evolve in relation to the Lao government's investment incentive policies in particular, and the wider State policies in general. Our goals are to: (1) systematically describe and analyze the patterns and char...
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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Suhardiman, Diana
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[Characterizing private investments and implications for poverty reduction and natural resource management in Laos]
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Characterizing private investments and implications for poverty reduction and natural resource management in Laos
State control of land plays a critical role in producing land dispossession throughout the Global South. In Myanmar, the state’s approach towards territorial expansion has driven the country’s system of land governance, resulting in widespread and systemic land grabbing. This article investigates...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Kenney-Lazar, M.
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Meinzen-Dick, R.
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[The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar]
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The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar