Water Rights and State Management in India and South Africa
Published by: Zed Books
This chapter examines the relationship between citizens mobilizing for their rights to water in South Africa and India and the ways in...
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Published by: Zed Books
This chapter examines the relationship between citizens mobilizing for their rights to water in South Africa and India and the ways in...
Published by: Zed Books
The authors begin this chapter with a brief review of how refugees are challenging conventional understandings of citizenship and how...
Published by: RiPPLE
2.5 billion people worldwide lack access to improved sanitation facilities and sanitation coverage is the lowest in sub-Saharan Africa...
Published by: IHDP
Recurring floods and droughts, the prevalence of waterborne diseases and the mounting sanitation problems of booming (peri)urban centres...
Published by: STEPS Centre
This paper examines some of the many ways in which the peri-urban has been theorised, considering, in particular, the implications for a...
Published by: STEPS Centre
Water and sanitation issues are looming large on the international agenda, not least due to the impetus created by the Millennium...
Published by: Sage
What makes water scarce? This paper argues that water scarcity is both 'real' and 'constructed'. While manufactured through political...
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be they due to conflict, persecution or even so-called 'development', are conditions which characterize the lives of millions of people across the globe.
Published by: Sage
Mehta's book applies gender analysis to development induced displacement and resettlement in the Indian context. It highlights the need to focus specifically on how processes of displacement and resettlement affect social groups differently with regard to axes such as gender, class, caste and tribe
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Displacement arising through the building of infrastructure projects such as mines, large dams and roads gives rise to radical and rapid...