For many years, water resources management in Vietnam was concentrated on activities ensuring the available freshwater … for agricultural production, including flood control. With the increase of water demands and the emergence of new water … economic transition process, the water sector has undergone a series of reforms, including various attempts to integrate …

This paper reviews the literature on the characteristics of the post-Independence water resources policy process in … have become increasingly forceful. It will be shown that the dynamics of the water resources policy process has been … studied to a very limited extent, compared to, for example, the study of (economic) impacts of policies and local-level water …

This paper uses the growing volume of scholarly work on "water and politics" to conceptually and methodologically frame … an approach to the social analysis of water resources management. This paper sets out the thrust and focus of such a … "political sociology of water resources management". The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …

and ensuring the nation's food security. The government has undertaken considerable investments in irrigation and water … control to boost local rice production, especially in the Mekong Delta. Today, a large water bureaucracy plans, implements and … context, water user groups started to emerge from the 1990s onwards. This study on the trajectory of group development in Can …