The politics of negotiation and implementation: a reciprocal water access agreement in the Himalayan foothills, India

In this paper, we examine the on-the-ground realities of upstream-downstream negotiations and transactions over ecosystem services. We explore the engagement, negotiation, implementation, and postimplementation phases of a "reciprocal water access" (RWA) agreement between village communiti...

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Main Authors: Eszter K. Kovacs, Chetan Kumar, Chetan Agarwal, William M. Adams, Robert A. Hope, Bhaskar Vira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2016-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art37/