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1 Narain, V.. 1998. Towards a new groundwater institution for India. Water Policy, 1(3):357-365.
Groundwater management ; Legal aspects ; Institutional development ; Water user associations ; Water rights ; Water policy / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ, IWMI-INDIA Call no: PER Record No: H026094)
2 Narain, V.. 2000. India's water crisis: the challenges of governance. Water Policy, 2(6):433-444.
Water scarcity ; Water shortage ; Water policy ; Water resource management ; Water resources development ; Water rights ; Organizational development ; Institutional development ; Decentralization ; Local government ; Irrigation management ; Legislation ; Privatization / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H027073)
3 Narain, V.. 2003. Institutions, technology and water control: Water users associations and irrigation management reform in two large-scale systems in India. New Delhi, India: Orient Longman. xvii, 244p. (Wageningen University Water resources series 1)
Water control ; Water user associations ; Irrigation management ; Leadership ; Cropping systems ; Large-scale systems ; Irrigation scheduling ; Water policy ; Participatory management ; Water distribution ; Water rights ; Equity ; Protective irrigation ; Farmers’ attitudes ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Bureaucracy / India / Haryana / Maharashtra / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: D 631.7.3 G635 NAR Record No: H032179)
4 Narain, V.. 2004. Brackets and black boxes: research on water users’ associations. Water Policy, 6(3):185-196.
Decentralization ; Governance ; Institutions ; Irrigation management ; Privatization ; Water user associations
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H035379)
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5 Narain, V.. 2009. Water rights system as a demand management option: potentials, constraints and prospects. In Saleth, Rathinasamy Maria (Ed.). Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India, Series 3: promoting irrigation demand management in India: potentials, problems and prospects. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) pp.127-145.
Water rights ; Legal aspects ; Legislation ; Irrigation management ; Water distribution ; Property rights ; Water supply / India / Punjab / Uttar Pradesh / Haryana / Karnataka / Tamil Nadu / Andhra Pradesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H042163)
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6 Saleth, R. M.; Amarasinghe, Upali A.; Reddy, V. Ratna; Kuppannan, Palanisami; Malik, R. P. S.; Narayanamoorthy, A.; Narain, V.; Reddy, M. V. 2009. Promoting demand management in irrigation in India: policy options and institutional requirements. In International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India Series 5. Proceedings of the Second National Workshop on Strategic Issues in Indian Irrigation, New Delhi, India, 8-9 April 2009. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.139-162.
Irrigation water ; Water demand ; Water supply ; Water rates ; Pricing ; Water market ; Water rights ; Energy ; Water conservation ; Water user associations / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042691)
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7 Vij, S.; Narain, V.. 2016. Land, water and power: the demise of common property resources in periurban Gurgaon, India. Land Use Policy, 50:59-66. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.08.030]
Water resources ; Land use ; Social structure ; Common property ; Wastewater irrigation ; Costs ; Agriculture ; Crop losses ; Livestock ; Urbanization ; Periurban areas ; Gender relations ; Women ; Living standards ; Caste systems ; Rural urban migration ; Villages ; Case studies / India / Haryana / Gurgaon / Budheda / Sadhrana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048053)
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This paper describes how urbanization processes and urban expansion intersect with social and power relations to reduce the access of periurban communities to common property resources (CPRs). Unequal power structures mean that certain groups are deprived of access to village CPRs. Processes of urban expansion further reduce access to CPRs, as the latter are acquired to support urban expansion. Though rural–urban transformations are characterized by the emergence of new sources of irrigation such as wastewater, not all are able to benefit from them. The acquisition of common property grazing lands to support the drinking water needs of the city affects the livelihood of livestock dependent population, that shift to casual labor. This also translates into a shift from grazing, the domain of men in the household, to stall-feeding, the domain of women, and thereby creating additional responsibilities for women in natural resource collection. The demise of CPRs such as village ponds with the increased pressure on groundwater resources increase the drudgery of women and marginalized groups in accessing water.
8 Vij, S.; Narain, V.; Karpouzoglou, T.; Mishra, P. 2018. From the core to the periphery: conflicts and cooperation over land and water in periurban Gurgaon, India. Land Use Policy, 76:382-390. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.050]
Water security ; Wastewater ; Groundwater ; Land use ; Conflict ; Cooperation ; Water users ; Periurban areas ; Political aspects ; Social groups ; Villages / India / Gurgaon
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048835)
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Recent studies that emphasize the contested nature of resource allocation address the politics of periurban development. However, the issue of conflicts and cooperation in periurban contexts continues to remain weakly studied. Based on the study of periurban Gurgaon in North-West India, this paper unravels the different types of conflicts and cooperation that have emerged around land and water, drawing insights from conflict/cooperation studies and urban political ecology. We focus on how changes in land-use bring about changes in water use, access and practices in periurban Gurgaon, giving rise to new forms of conflicts, conflicts of interest and cooperation. Conflicts over land and water are linked to the changing characteristics of land and water appropriation that has occurred in the aftermath of neoliberal reforms. Drawing insights from urban political ecology perspective, we show how periurban areas are systematically undermined through the acquisition of land and water to serve urban expansion and growth. We conclude that periurban conflicts are rooted in the issue of land-use change and are fundamentally tied to the politics of urbanization and its impact on periurban areas. These processes give rise to conflicts of interest and explicit conflicts, whilst creating new forms of cooperation. Cooperation is exemplified by emerging forms of collective action over the use of wastewater and groundwater. The paper distinguishes between conflict and cooperation but concludes that these are in fact not mutually exclusive; rather points along a continuum.
9 Narain, V.; Singh, A. K. 2019. Replacement or displacement?: periurbanisation and changing water access in the Kumaon Himalaya, India. Land Use Policy, 82:130-137. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.004]
Water availability ; Urbanization ; Periurban areas ; Water security ; Climate change ; Land use ; Water institutions ; Rural urban relations ; Gender relations ; Social capital ; Political aspects ; Highlands / India / Himalayan Region / Kumaon Hills / Mukteshwar
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049151)
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This paper describes the impacts of urbanisation on the water sources of the residents of Mukteshwar in the Kumaon hills of North India. It uses a periurban conceptual lens to understand the changing flows of people and natural resources between Mukteshwar and connecting urban centres. Following land use change, it traces the impacts of these processes on water sources and institutions, and employs a political ecology framing to illustrate how water resources are (re) appropriated. Further demonstrating how the effects of these changes are aggravated by climatic change and variability it describes how these processes impact gender relations around natural resource collection. The paper concludes with identifying some key areas for further research on periurbanisation processes in mountain contexts, focusing on important ideas and concepts that can be relevant in capturing the processes underway.
10 Karpouzoglou, T.; Vij, S.; Blomkvist, P.; Juma, B.; Narain, V.; Nilsson, D.; Sitoki, L. 2023. Analysing water provision in the critical interface of formal and informal urban water regimes. Water International, 48(2):202-216. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2023.2171642]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051786)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02508060.2023.2171642?needAccess=true&role=button
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051786.pdf
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Science and technology studies and urban political ecology have made important contributions to the understanding of water provision in the Global South. In this article we develop insights from these fields with the aim to understand the blurring boundaries of urban water regimes and their power relations mediated by actors, institutions and technology. Furthermore, we explore how urban water regimes can form a critical interface which is a form of institutional–actor space where formal and informal water regimes encounter each other through conflict and cooperation.
11 Narain, V.. 2023. Agrifood systems policy research: historical evolution of agrifood systems in Haryana, India. Policy and institutional evolution. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia. 31p. (TAFSSA Research Note 15)
Agrifood systems ; Public policies ; History ; Institutional development ; Land resources ; Irrigation ; Participatory management ; Green revolution ; Climate change / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052519)
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This study examines the evolution of public policy and institutions shaping the agrifood systems in Haryana, India, from 1850 to the present. Public policy is conceptualized as representing state intent (Narain 2018; Dye 2002); in the context of this study, this includes a historical review of public policy spanning the colonial as well as postcolonial eras. Institutions are conceptualized as regularized practices, norms, and codes of conduct that structure repeated human interactions (North 1990). Thereby, in this study, institutions refer to both statutory (enforced and legitimized by the state) and non-statutory (legitimatized by sources other than the state) institutions.
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