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The politics of river basin planning and state transformation processes in Nepal
  • Diana Suhardimana, Ram C. Bastakotib, Emma Karki, Luna Bharati
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www.elsevier.com/locate/geoforum
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Journal Articles
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Elsevier
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English
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Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power struggles, where state actors create, sustain, and reproduce their bureaucratic power through the overall shaping of (imagined) bureaucratic territory.

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