De l’eau source à l’eau ressource : production d’un capital environnemental ou d’un commun. L’exemple de l’eau domestique au Pharak (Népal)

• Main Author: Véronique André-Lamat
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Réseau Développement Durable et Territoires Fragiles 2017-11-01
• Series: Développement Durable et Territoires
• Subjects: water; environmental capital; resource; common; governance; Népal
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/developpementdurable/11869

This article aims at exploring how domestic water, that is to say daily water used for cooking, drinking, cleaning and washing, is produced as a resource in the region of Pharak, Nepal. It is crucial for the lodges to access this resource as it conditions the economic development. The article will confront through this case study, the question of the production of a resource (according to G. Bertrand’s meaning of the transition from a water as a source to water as a resource) to the notion of « commons » on the one hand and to « environmental capital » on the other hand. This last notion is currently being conceptualized by Geolab research team and was discussed on during a symposium dedicated to it. Finally, the point of this case is to test the efficiency of those two notions as interpretation tools to question the sustainability of a resource in regard with governance.