Process-focused analysis in transboundary water governance research

Diana Suhardiman () and Mark Giordano

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2012, vol. 12, issue 3, 299-308

Abstract: Previous analysis of transboundary water governance has been focused primarily on state-centred approaches. The articles in this special section move us forward from this focus in three ways. First, they highlight the crucial role played by non-state actors in shaping water governance outcomes. Second, they show us how these actors can increase the ‘room for manoeuvre’ in negotiations. Third, they provide an entry point for developing process-focused approaches in transboundary water governance research. This article argues such an approach might improve our understanding of transboundary water outcomes and suggests new focus on how key actors form networks of alliances and shape decision-making landscapes at multiple governance levels and arenas. From a scholarly perspective, it brings to light the blurred boundary between state and non-state actors, as derived from a better understanding of the elusive links between actors and organisations; it unravels additional layers of complexity in the hydro-hegemony concept and bends the rigid notion of power asymmetry, towards the subtleties of power relations and interplays in transboundary decision-making processes. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

Keywords: Transboundary waters; Hydro-hegemony; Power asymmetry; Room for manoeuvre; Networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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