The current debate on decentralisation offers a partial and polarised view on the sharing of power to manage water. Drawing New Institutionalism as applied in the social and ecological sciences, the paper argues that decentralisation represents a complex adaptive process, wherein agents draw upon the
activities of multiple actors and their rules to negotiate and renegotiate their unequal power relations. Examining a watershed in the Indian Himalayas as a case study, the paper demonstrates the incremental and cumulative integration of statutory and socially-embedded rules in facilitating the agents
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/dancing-tune-democracy-agents-negotiating-power-decentralise-water-management
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/saravanan-v-subramanian
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/center-development-research
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-resources
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-management
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-conservation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-harvesting
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/watershed-development
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/himachal-pradesh
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kulu-d
