The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal

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dc.creatorSuhardiman, Diana
dc.creatorBastakoti, Ram C.
dc.creatorKarki, Emma
dc.creatorBharati, Luna
dc.date2018-11
dc.date2018-09-13T05:17:58Z
dc.date2018-09-13T05:17:58Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:43:04Z
dc.descriptionSince 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 struggles, where state actors create, sustain, and reproduce their bureaucratic power through the overall shaping of (imagined) bureaucratic territory. It argues that river basin planning is not an antidote to current ‘dysfunction’ in water resources management, rooted in overlapping jurisdictions, fragmented decision making, and bureaucratic competitions between various government agencies. On the contrary, it illustrates how river basin planning becomes a new ‘territorial frontier’, created and depicted by different government agencies as their envisioned operational boundary and as a means to sustain and increase their bureaucratic power and sectoral decision-making authority, amidst ongoing processes of federalism in Nepal.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/97173
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/163541
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceSuhardiman, Diana; Bastakoti, Ram C.; Karki, Emma; Bharati, Luna. 2018. The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal. Geoforum, 7p. (Online first) doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.019
dc.subjectriver basin management
dc.subjectpolitical aspects
dc.subjectbureaucracy
dc.subjecttransformation
dc.subjectwater resources
dc.subjectwater management
dc.subjectwater policy
dc.subjectwater institutions
dc.subjectsectoral planning
dc.subjectfederalism
dc.subjectdecision making
dc.subjectstate intervention
dc.subjectgovernment agencies
dc.titleThe politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal
dc.typeJournal Article

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