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100			_aSajor, Edsel E.
245			_aInstitutional and development issues in integrated water resource management of Saigon river
260			_c2009
300			_ap.268-90.
362			_aSep
520			_aThe article focues on endogenous institutional factors in the water sector and the challenges and opportunities to an alternative integrated management approach in Vietnam, particularly in the context of its political legacy, current development goal, and Doi Moi reforms, using Saigon River as a case study. It investigates three institutional problem areas constituting major constraints to integrated water resources management (IWRM): (a) bureaucratic fragmentation and separatism, (b) top-downism negating multistake-holder participation, and (c) highly centralized administration. It also highlights how the goal of rapid industrialization and economic growth tends to marginalize environmental concerns in policies in water and river management. The authors argue that despite great incompatibilities of the legacy and present features of water-related institutions to IWRM, broader exogenous factors in the country can provide impetus to water institutional changes. These are the currently ongoing reforms of grassroots participation and decentralization as well as the country's enhanced integration and cooperation with the international community, especially with development donor agencies. - Reproduced.
650			_aWater resources management
700			_aThu, Nguye Minh
773			_aJournal of Environment and Development
908			_aN
909			_a84220
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