Browsing by Autor "Mikkel Funder"

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    Challenges of local water governance: the extent, nature and intensity of local water-related conflict and cooperation
    (UWA Publishing, 2011) Helle Munk Ravnborg; Rocío García Bustamante; Abdoulaye Cissé; Signe Marie Cold‐Ravnkilde; Vladimir Cossío; Moussa Djiré; Mikkel Funder; Ligia Ivette Gómez; Phuong Thi Thanh Le; Carol Emma Mweemba
    This article presents the results of comprehensive inventories made of water-related conflict and cooperation occurring in five districts in Africa, Asia and Latin America between 1997 and 2007. Following a description of the conceptual and methodological framework developed for undertaking these inventories, the article documents the extent, nature and intensity of water-related conflict and cooperation in the five districts. The article concludes by identifying three challenges relating to the magnitude, complexity and invisibility of local-level conflict and cooperation about water, which efforts to improve local water governance would have to address.
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    Strategies of the poorest in local water conflict and cooperation - evidence from Vietnam, Bolivia and Zambia
    (2012) Mikkel Funder; R.R. Bustamante Zenteno; V. Cossio Rojas; Phạm Thị Mai Hương; Barbara van Koppen; Carol Emma Mweemba; Imasiku Nyambe; Le Thi Thanh Phuong; Thomas Skielboe
    Media stories often speak of a future dominated by large-scale water wars. Rather less attention has been paid to the way water conflicts play out at local levels and form part of people's everyday lives. Based on case study studies from Vietnam, Bolivia and Zambia, this paper examines the strategies of poor households in local water conflicts. It is shown how such households may not only engage actively in collaborative water management but may also apply risk aversion strategies when faced with powerful adversaries in conflict situations. It is further shown how dependency relations between poor and wealthy households can reduce the scope of action for the poor in water conflicts. As a result, poor households can be forced to abstain from defending their water resources in order to maintain socio-economic and political ties with the very same households that oppose them in water conflicts. The paper concludes by briefly discussing how the poorest can be supported in local water conflicts. This includes ensuring that alternative spaces for expressing grievances exist and are accessible; facilitating that water sharing agreements and rights are clearly stipulated and monitored; and working beyond water governance to reduce the socio-economic dependency-relations of poor households.