Camelia Dewan, Aditi Mukherji, Marie-Charlotte Buisson
This article examines the historical evolution of participatory water management in coastal Bangladesh. Three major shifts are identified: first, from indigenous local systems managed by landlords to centralized government agencies in the 1960s; second, from top-down engineering solutions to small-s...
Deepa Joshi, Ben Fawcett, Fouzia Mannan
“Don’t teach us what is sanitation and hygiene.” This quote from Maqbul, a middle-aged male resident in Modher Bosti, a slum in Dhaka city, summed up the frustration of many people living in urban poverty to ongoing sanitation and hygiene programmes. In the light of their experiences, such programme...
Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan, Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a megacity and characterizes its emerging challenges due to inf...
John E. Scanlon, Angela Cassar, Noémi Nemes
Formally acknowledging water as a human right could encourage the international community and governments to enhance their efforts to satisfy basic human needs and to meet the Millennium Development Goals. But critical questions arise in relation to a right to water. What would be the benefits and c...
Tushaar Shah
In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions ...
Chris Sneddon, Leila M. Harris, Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Uygar Özesmi
Abstract Adequate interpretations of the complex social processes that contribute to the transformation of aquatic ecosystems and subsequent conflicts over water demand an interdisciplinary perspective. In this special issue, we focus on the multiple causes of conflicts over water, sensitive to the ...
Paul Routledge, Kate Driscoll Derickson
Drawing on an analysis of an ongoing collaboration with rural peasant movements in Bangladesh, we explore the possibility of forging solidarity through practices of scholar-activism. In so doing, we consider the practice of reflexivity, reconsider forms of solidarity, and draw on the concept of conv...
Anne Matter, Mehedi Ahsan, Michelle Marbach, Christian Zurbrügg
Solid waste mismanagement in Dhaka, Bangladesh, illustrates a well-known market failure which can be summarized as: waste is a resource in the wrong place. Inorganic materials such as plastic or paper can be used to feed the demand for recycled materials in the industrial sector. Organic materials c...
B A Hoque, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Tahmeed Ahmed, Safiqul Islam et al.
A supply of safe drinking water is a recognized global concern. The arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh and other countries has furthered this concern. Lack of appropriate water options is one of the main barriers to the supply of safe drinking water for 30-60 million people who are e...
S. G. Mahmud, Sk. Abu Jafar Shamsuddin, M. Feroze Ahmed, A. Davison et al.
Water safety plans (WSPs) are promoted by the WHO as the most effective means of securing drinking water safety. To date most experience with WSPs has been within utility supplies, primarily in developed countries. There has been little documented experience of applying WSPs to small community-manag...
Kamal K. Kar
Access to latrines in rural areas of Bangladesh is less than 15 per cent. Many international agencies and \nnon-governmental organisations have been working to improve environmental sanitation by constructing \nlatrines and toilets with subsidies provided at different rates. But even after t...
Ankit Kumar, Raihana Ferdous, Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Cheryl McEwan et al.
Lanterns, homes systems, hot water systems and micro-grids based on small-scale solar have become prominent ways to address the energy access challenge. As momentum grows for this form of energy transition this paper draws together research on small-scale solar in six different countries – Banglades...
Kasia Paprocki
What are the political imaginaries contained within representations of urban climate futures? What silent but corollary rural dispossessions accompany them? I investigate these questions through the experience of migrants from rural coastal Bangladesh to peri-urban Kolkata. The threats posed to thei...
Christopher A. Scott, Bharat R. Sharma
Abstract Irrigation using groundwater has expanded rapidly in South Asia since the inception of the Green Revolution in the 1970s. Groundwater currently represents the largest source of irrigation in the Indus‐Ganges Basin (IGB), which feeds over one billion people and provides direct livelihoods fo...
Erin O’Donnell
Since 2017, some of the most beloved and iconic rivers in the world have been recognised in law as legal persons and/or living entities, with a range of legal rights and protections. These profound legal changes can transform the relationship between people and rivers, and are the result of ongoing ...