'Going with the grain': accommodating local institutions in water governance

被引:12
作者
Rusca, Maria [1 ,2 ]
Schwartz, Klaas [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] UNESCO, IHE, Inst Water Educ, Westvest 7, NL-2611 AX Delft, Netherlands
[2] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Inst Social Sci Res, Amsterdam, Netherlands
关键词
GOOD ENOUGH GOVERNANCE; LEGAL PLURALISM; ELITE CAPTURE; SOCIAL COHESION; POLICY; SCALE; AID; PROVIDERS; POLITICS; REFORM;
D O I
10.1016/j.cosust.2014.09.010
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Development agencies have often adhered to standardized models for interventions in the water sector of developing countries. The assumption is that the model and the associated institutions will substitute existing institutions. This approach has been criticized on the grounds that prevailing institutions are a mix of traditional and modern arrangements, resulting from a process of bricolage, through which norms, values and arrangements are locally moulded. In this paper we review the literature on institutions in water services governance and focus our discussion on the 'going with the grain' approach. By looking at provision of drinking water to the poor, we argue that although the approach may lead to more effective and environmentally sustainable water services, it also reproduces local power dynamics and existing inequalities. We conclude by linking this debate to the question of this special issue: how to deal with legal pluralism?
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页码:34 / 38
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