Water security has emerged as a major framing template in environmental governance and
resource management. The term and underlying concepts have attracted the attention of …

Purpose Smart urban governance research has progressed over the past few decades
following changes and increasingly complicated city management difficulties. Therefore, the …

Cities are rapidly expanding and invariably moving toward densification. Global challenges
such as climate change, land use change, environmental degradation, and expanding …

This article investigates water security in Nepal from the perspective of the water-energy-
agriculture (food) nexus, focusing on pathways to water security that originate in actions and …

Halving the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water was a core
target of the Millennium Development Goals. This led to an unprecedented effort in the water …

Urban water security is a major concern in the context of urbanization and climate change.
Water security goes beyond having good infrastructure or good governance. Systems …

Peri-urban transformations in emerging economies like India demand scientific attention
given their impact on global environmental change processes. Some studies examine past …

This paper describes how urbanization processes and urban expansion intersect with social
and power relations to reduce the access of periurban communities to common property …

Despite the overwhelming research and useful outcomes on the relationship between
hydropower consumption, urban population growth, and environmental quality, the empirical …

Animating the contemporary politics of water governance in India is a combination of
institutional path dependence and a neo-liberal restructuring that has extended the ability of …