IV. Readings
Brief descriptions and references are provided in section 3-‘Resource Material in a Nutshell’
Theme 1: Introduction Water and Rights
Theme 2: Water Rights and International Law Context
2.1 The Customary International Law of Transboundary Fresh Waters |
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Author: Joseph W. Dellapenna Link: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/ce397/Topics/WaterConventions/Dellapana- InternWaterLaw.pdf |
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2.2 Principles of Transboundary Water Resources Management and Ganges Treaties: An Analysis |
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Author: Muhammad Mizanur Rahaman Link: http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/articles/general/Rahaman- Ganges-Water_Res_Devel.pdf |
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2.3 Water Issues between Nepal, India & Bangladesh: A Review of Literature |
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Author: Pia Malhotra Link: http://www.ipcs.org/pdf_file/issue/SR95.pdf |
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Theme 3: Water Rights and Legal Pluralism
3.1 Understanding Legal Pluralism in Water and Land Rights: Lessons from Africa and Asia |
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Authors: Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Leticia Nkonya Link: http://www.nri.org/projects/waterlaw/AWLworkshop/MEINZEN-DICK-R.pdf |
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3.2 Legal Pluralism and Dynamic Property Rights |
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Authors: Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Rajendra Pradhan Link: http://www.capri.cgiar.org/pdf/CAPRIWP22.pdf |
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3.3 Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis |
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Authors: Edella Schlager and Elinor Ostrom Link: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/geomatics/courses/SUR6427/Schlager_Ostrum1992.pdf |
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3.4 The Tragedy of the Commons |
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Author: Garrett Hardin Link: http://agora.phi.gvsu.edu/lib330/Documents/hardin-tragedy.pdf |
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3.5 Customary Law and the Protection of Indigenous Knowledge in India |
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Author: Nidhi Srivastava Link: http://www.genecampaign.org/Focus%20Area/PROJECT/GC_IK_BP2%20.pdf |
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3.6 Water Rights and Multiple Water Uses: Framework and Application to Kirindi Oya Irrigation System Sri Lanka |
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Authors: Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margaretha Bakker Link: http://www.chs.ubc.ca/srilanka/PDFs/Water%20rights%20and%20multiple%20uses.pdf |
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Theme 4: Water as a Human Right
4.1 The Human Right to Water |
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Author: Peter Gleick Link: http://www.pacinst.org/reports/basic_water_needs/human_right_to_water.pdf |
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4.2 Water as Human Right? |
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Authors: John Scanlon, Angela Cassar and Noemi Nemes Link: http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/EPLP-051.pdf |
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4.3 The Right to Water as a Human Right |
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Author: J.Ignacio Alvarez Link: http://wp.cedha.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/the-right-to-water-as-a-human-right.pdf |
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4.4 Provisioning of Arsenic-free Water in Bangladesh: A Human Rights Challenge |
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Authors: Abul Barkat and Abul Hussam Link: http://www.nae.edu/File.aspx?id=14703 |
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Theme 5: Right to Drinking Water and Sanitation
5.1 Right to Water and Sanitation Moving Towards a Constitutional Guarantee |
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Author: Meera Pillai Link: http://www.sambhavindia.org/archive/RTWS_report%20-FINAL.pdf |
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5.2 Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation. Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Right to Water Programme |
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Authors: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) Link: http://hrbaportal.org/wp-content/files/1237935325rwp_manual_final_full.pdf |
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5.3 Report of the Independent Expert on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Related to Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque |
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Author: United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Link: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/water/iexpert/docs/A-HRC-15-31-AEV.pdf |
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5.4 New Policy Framework for Rural Drinking Water Supply: Swajaldhara Guidelines |
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Author: Philippe Cullet Link: http://www.ielrc.org/content/a0903.pdf |
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Theme 6: Water Rights and Irrigation
6.1 Water Rights in Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in India: Equity, Rule Making, Hydraulic Property and the Ecology |
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Author: Peter P. Mollinga Link: http://www.sawasjournal.org//templates/sawas/waterrights.pdf |
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6.2 Participatory Irrigation Management: An overview of Issues and the Way Ahead |
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Author: Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management(SOPPECOM) Link: http://www.soppecom.org/pdf/DownloadablePapers/walmi-theme-paper.pdf |
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Theme 7: Water Rights and Ground Water
7.1 The Global Groundwater Situation: Overview of Opportunities and Challenges |
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Authors: Tushaar Shah, David Molden , R. Sakthivadivel and David Seckler Link: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/113506/2/H025885.pdf |
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7.2 Groundwater and Human Development: Challenges and Opportunities in Livelihoods and Environment |
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Author: Tushaar Shah Link: http://publications.iwmi.org/pdf/H_35884.doc |
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7.3 Sustaining Asia’s Groundwater Boom: An Overview of Issues and Evidence |
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Authors: Tushaar Shah, Aditi Deb Roy, Asad S Qureshi, and Jinxia Wang Link: http://www.ccap.org.cn/uploadfile/2010/0208/20100208044640693.pdf |
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Theme 8: Water Rights and Independent Regulatory Authority
8.1 Independent Regulatory Agencies: A Theoretical Review With Reference to Electricity and Water in India |
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Author: Navroz K. Dubash Link: http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Independent%20Regulatory%20Agencies.pdf |
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8.2 New Law Establishing Independent Regulatory Agencies in the Indian Water Sector: Long Term Implications for Governance |
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Authors: Subodh Wagle, and Sachin Warghade Link: http://www.sawasjournal.org/v2i1/SAWAS_2_1_Jun2010_Wagle_Warghade_p49_p78.pdf |
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8.3 Uttar Pradesh Water Management and Regulatory Commission (UPWMRC) Act, 2008: Need for Civil Society Attention |
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Authors: Subodh Wagle, and Sachin Warghade Link: http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/UPWMRC.pdf |
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Theme 9: Water Rights and Decentralisation
9.1 Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala, South Africa, and Porto Alegre |
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Author: Patrick Heller Link: http://abahlali.org/files/Heller%202001%20Moving%20the%20State%20The%20Politics %20of%20Democratic%20Decentralization%20in%20Kerala%20South%20Africa%20and%20 Porto%20Alegre.pdf |
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9.2 Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens: An Introduction |
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Authors: Anne M. Larson and Jesse C. Ribot Link: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ribot/shared/161edr01.pdf |
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9.3 Paradoxes of Participation: Questioning Participatory Approaches to Development |
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Author: Frances Cleaver Link: http://courses.washington.edu/pbaf531/Cleaver_ParadoxesParticpiation.pdf |
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Theme 10: Water Rights and Displacement
10.1 Dams and Displacement: Raising the Standards and Broadening the Research Agenda |
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Authors: Brooke McDonald Wilmsen and Michael Webber Link: http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=139& Itemid=1 |
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10.2 Displacement, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Reparation, and Development |
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Author: Leopoldo Jose Bartolome Link: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTINVRES/Resources/DisplaceResettleRehabilitation ReparationDevFinal13main.pdf |
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10.3 Tarbela Dam and related aspects of the Indus River Basin Pakistan |
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Author: Asianics Agro-Dev. International (Pvt) Ltd Link: http://www.adb.org/water/topics/dams/pdf/cspkmain.pdf |
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Theme 11: Water Rights and Gender
11.1 Gender and Water: Securing Water for Improved Rural Livelihoods: The Multiple-Uses System Approach |
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Author: Robina Wahaj Link: http://www.ifad.org/gender/thematic/water/gender_water.pdf |
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11.2 Gender, Class, and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta |
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Authors: Ben Crow and Farhana Sultana Link: http://www.farhanasultana.com/publications/Crow_Sultana_SNR_FinalPDF.pdf |
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11.3 Masculinities and Water Powers in Irrigation |
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Author: Margreet Zwarteveen Link: http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23& Itemid=40 |
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11.4 Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry and Gender: An Analysis for South Asia and Conceptual Framework |
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Author: Bina Agrawal Link: http://www.uky.edu/~tmute2/political_ecology/PE%20readings%20pdf/Agarwal- participatory%20exclu.pdf |
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