Bureaucracy, sustainable development and decentralization : reflections on Jalasamrudhi, a community-based water conservation programme in Kerala

ISBN : 9788194819585 (e-book). ISBN : 9788194819578 (paperback). OCLC : 1429575366.

"This is the fifth monograph in the series resulting from the research projects supported by the Research Unit on Local Self-Government at the Centre for Development Studies on Kerala’s emergent ecological challenges and our preparedness to tackle them." "This study, located in Thiruvananthapuram district, reflects on a community-based water conservation program to understand the challenges to improving local environmental planning outcomes. In this work, a journalist and a researcher collaborate to show how local planning priorities and outcomes are shaped by anachronistic line departments and their extant relationship with elected members and the administrative apparatus at the local level."