Water Governance and Human Security in a Trans-boundary River Basin in South Asia

2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20530145
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: OKURA Miwa Ritsumeikan University, 国際関係学部, 准教授 (30425011)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2010
• Keywords: 人間の安全保障 / 水の安全保障 / ヒューマン・インセキュリティ / 水ガバナンス / 国際河川問題 / 統合的水資源管理 / 気候変動影響への適応策 / Local Indigenous knowledge

Research Abstract

In the recent years, the international policy discussions on the global water issues has been focused on the water insecurity from the viewpoint of global science, calling for the international efforts to achieve an universalistic "water security" through a top-down approaches for water governance, including Integrated Water Resource Management and international water sharing treaties over trans-boundary water resources.
This study, based on the result of the field research conducted in a rural society in the coastal region in Bangladesh, explores the reality of water insecurity experienced by the local people in their daily life and the importance and space-specific nature of their water-security practices. It then suggests the alternative framework for understanding and supporting a local and bottom-up process of governance building within the locally-specific socio-historical context, in place of the existing top-down process which can promote a governance oppressive against such local efforts for adapting to and/or mitigating the impacts of man-made water disasters.

Research Products

• [Presentation] バングラデシュの湛水問題と潮汐河川管理:在来技術の可能性と制約 (2009)
  • Author(s): 大倉三
  • Organizer: 第39回環境社会学会セミナー
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋大学 東山キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-27
• [Remarks] ホームページ等
• [Remarks] (1)国際会議報告
• [Remarks] (1) Miwa OKURA "From Water Security to Water Governance : Conceptual Review in the Bangladeshi Context," Bangladesh Water Security Workshop, organized by Research Project on Water Security, lead by Professor Ken'ichi NAKAGAMI (Kaken B project), 30th November 2008, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University.
• [Remarks] (1)Miwa OKURA, "Grassroot Water Insecurity under Contentious Water Governance," the 1st International Workshop on 'Building Sustainable Peace? : A Review of the Global and Local Challenges' organized by Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, 16th June 2009, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University.
• [Remarks] (2)雑誌記事
• [Remarks] (1)大倉三和「バングラデシュ潮汐氾濫原におけるTRMの取り組み」『サステナ』第10号(査読無し)、サステイナビリティ学連携研究機構、2009年1月、96-97頁。
• [Remarks] (3)アウトリーチ活動:ICA研修事業
• [Remarks] (1)Miwa OKURA "Local Knowledge for Adaptation : the Case of Tidal River Management in South Western Bangladesh," Lecture at JICA Group Training Program : "Adaptive Watershed Management for Mitigating Climate Change- induced Floods and Ecosystem Conservation," 8th October 2010. Obihiro International Center.
• [Remarks] (4)翻訳
• [Remarks] (1)大倉三和(ハドソン、G.H.)「集団的安全保障と軍事同盟」、バターフィールド、H.,ワイト、M.編(佐藤誠、安藤次男ほか訳)『国際関係理論の探求:英国学派のパラダイム』日本経済評論社、2010年、207-220頁。