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1 van Dam, J. C.; Wessel, J. (Eds.) 1993. Transboundary river basin management and sustainable development: Proceedings, Lustrum Symposium, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 18-22 May 1992. Vol.II. Paris, France: UNESCO. xi, 272p.

River basin development ; Ecology ; Water transfer ; International cooperation ; Water quality ; Monitoring ; Sedimentation ; Runoff ; Water management ; Water control ; Models ; Environmental effects ; Groundwater / Europe / France / Belgium / Germany / Austria / Netherlands / Jordan / Israel / West Africa / North Africa / India / Bangladesh / China / Sri Lanka / Japan / Middle East / Rhine River / Danube River / Jordan River / Niger River / Chad Basin / Indus River / Teesta River / Scheldt / Meuse / S-re / Mahaweli Project / Volta / Da River / Yodo River / River Vecht / Ganges Basin / Brahmaputra River / Meghana

(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 VAN Record No: H016075)

2 Joshi, Deepa; Platteeuw, J.; Teoh, J. 2019. The consensual politics of development: a case study of hydropower development in the eastern Himalayan region of India. New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, 5(1):74-98. (Special issue: Water Security and Inclusive Water Governance in the Himalayas)

Hydropower ; Development projects ; Political aspects ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Civil society organizations ; State intervention ; Climate change mitigation ; Policies ; Dams ; Social aspects ; Case studies / India / Eastern Himalayan Region / West Bengal / Sikkim / Darjeeling / Dzongu / Teesta River

(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049736)

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Criticism and contestation of large dam projects have a long, strong history in India. In this paper, we analyze diverse civil-society responses to large dam projects in the Eastern Himalaya region of India, which has in the past decades been presented as a clean, green, climate-mitigating way of generating energy, but critiqued for its adverse impacts more recently. We draw our findings primarily based on interviews with NGOs involved in environmental and/or water issues in Darjeeling, interviews with those involved in a local people’s movement ‘Affected Citizens of Teesta’, and participatory research over the course of three years between 2015 and 2018. Our findings show how doing development for the state, the market and/or donor organizations compromises the ability of NGOs in the Darjeeling region to hold these actors accountable for social and environmental excesses. In the same region, dam projects in North Sikkim led to a local people’s movement, where expressions of indigeneity, identity and place were used to critique and contest the State’s agenda of development, in ways that were symptomatically different to NGOs tied down by relations of developmental bureaucracy. Our findings reveal how the incursion of State authority, presence and power in civil-society undermines the civil society mandate of transformative social change, and additionally, how the geographical, political, institutional and identity-based divides that fragment diverse civil-society institutions and actors make it challenging to counter the increasingly consensual politics of environmental governance.