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Civil society & internationalised river basin management (pdf 224kb)

This paper explores the intersection of three broad trends in river basin management in the international development context, namely:
- The shift to integrated river basin management (IRBM) approaches
- The increased role of civil society
- Internationalisation of river basin management approaches

The paper argues that effective development and management of watershed resources is a socially embedded process but that IRBM has tended to be packaged in such a way as to undermine this insight.  It presents IRBM can as a process, a product of negotiation between civil society and the state, rather than a set of policies, laws, or institutional models that can be transferred readily from one river basin to another, applied in a different context to their origin.

 

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