Bhattarai, Kiran Kumari, FitzGibbon, John and Pant, Laxmi Prasad (2023) Rethinking collaborative governance to enhance legitimacy co-production: a multipurpose rural-urban water transfer in Nepal. International Journal of Water Resources Development. ISSN 0790-0627 (Print), 1360-0648 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2023.2218492)

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Abstract

This study examines the Sundarjal Water Supply System in Nepal, which involves over 100 years of experience on a multipurpose water supply project. Research findings suggest that the liberal idea of justice as fairness in the distribution of risks and benefits fails to appreciate the political nature of state interventions to transfer rural water for urban municipal use. The research rejects the neoliberal idea of procedural justice as creating non-argumentative spaces for decision making, such as majority vote and Indigenous quota, common in collaborative governance in favour of the political ecological approach to developing argumentative spaces to facilitate contested co-production of legitimacy.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	legitimacy co-production; social justice; contestation; water policy; Kathmandu; Nepal
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions Department
Last Modified:	06 Jul 2023 12:38
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/42750

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