René Véron
Full professor

Université de Lausanne
Institut de géographie et durabilité
Mouline - Géopolis 3516
CH-1015 Lausanne
 
 
 
Tél. +41 21 692 3063
rene.veron@unil.ch
ORCID 0000-0001-6829-5712
95 Publications:

Remaking land–water boundaries in the Rhone plain in Switzerland: A reinterpretation of past and present river training using a ‘postcolonial mirror'
Metzger, Alexis; Véron, René; Reynard, Emmanuel
River training in Europe has recently shifted from a focus on hard infrastructure toward river widening and renaturation. Inspired by postcolonial studies on land–water dichotomies,...
serval:BIB_302E8484993D
2025-05
10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104246
Governance of a Transboundary River: A Comparative Geohistorical Analysis of the Rhône River in France and Switzerland
Guerrin, Joana; Metzger, Alexis; Morera, Raphaël; Brochet, Antoine; Véron, René; Reynard, Emmanuel
Warner, Jeroen
serval:BIB_6BB19CC47E52
2025-03
10.1142/9789811291395_0003
Waste discourses in Nepal: Recent shifts to sociopolitical concerns
Upreti, Bishnu Raj; Véron, René; Ghale, Yamuna
This paper identifies and discusses recent discourses on solid waste management in Nepal as they both shape and mirror waste practices and policies in their...
serval:BIB_F332A14B96FD
2025-01
Post COVID-19 Waste Practices in Nepal: Case study of Kirtipur Municipality
Subedi, Bashu Prasad; Upreti, Bishnu Raj; Ghale, Yamuna
Véron, René; Rao Dhananka, Swetha
The objective of this working paper is to describe the changes in MSWM systems during the COVID-19 pandemic and to evaluate the influence of short-term...
2025
Post-COVID-19 waste practices: A case study of selected wards in Dehiwala - Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council, Sri Lanka
De Silva, Malith; Fernando, Nishara
The working paper present the results of a household survey two years after the initial survey. It therefore is able to capture the impacts of...
serval:BIB_D154697E323A
2024-12
Expanding knowledge geographies
Hilbrandt, Hanna; Bluwstein, Jevgeniy; Cima, Ottavia; Duplan, Karine; Marquardt, Nadine; Péaud, Laura; Pütz, Marco; Véron, René; Vorbrugg, Alexander
In this editorial, we sketch out an agenda committed to exploring and fostering situated yet global perspectives on the manifold connections, disconnections, and differences within...
serval:BIB_3553973CF018
2024-08-09
10.5194/gh-79-239-2024
Of Practices and (Micro)politics: Challenges of Organic Waste Segregation in Dschang, Cameroon
Kongnso, Eric Moye; Yemmafouo, Aristide; Moumbe, Joël Sagne; Makamté Kakeu-Tardy, Rolande Christelle; Sahakian, Marlyne; Véron, René
Waste generation in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing rapidly. While biodegradable waste remains predominant, it is rarely treated separately by municipal solid waste management systems, thus...
serval:BIB_CAA73EB2DC01
2024-04-17
10.1177/10704965241246708
Environmental Governance in Small Cities: Decentralization, Municipal Capacity and Autonomy in Gujarat and West Bengal
Véron, René; Zimmer, Anna; Cornea, Natasha; Sanchez, Jérémie
India's 74th Constitutional Amendment obliges state governments to devolve responsibilities related to urban environmental resources and services to the Urban Local Bodies. However, the existing...
serval:BIB_B493D6C5ACA1
2024-02-05
10.1177/09731741241228359
Urban Environmental Governance: Historical and Political Ecological Perspectives from South Asia
Mukherjee, Jenia; Véron, René
O'Gorman, Emily; San Martin, William; Carey, Mark; Swart, Sandra
This chapter maps the emergence and development of urban environmental history (UEH) in South Asia and the lessons it offers to understand and analyze pertinent...
serval:BIB_02E7C410FF8F
2024
10.4324/9781003189350-26
Nuwan: Much more than an ideal waste worker
Fernando, Yeshani; Fernando, Nishara
An illustrated book representing a day in the life of Nuwan, a waste worker in Sri Lanka, highlighting his complex and multifaceted habitus.
serval:BIB_4E6C91D7DA86
2024
10.5281/zenodo.14609031
Sri Lankawe palath palana aayathanayanhi gana apthravya kalamanaakarana [Municipal Solid Waste Management in Sri Lanka]
Fernando, Nishara; De Silva, Malith
As an extension of the book titled Municipal Solid Waste Management in Sri Lanka: A Study of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Dehiwala-Mt. Lavinia Municipal...
serval:BIB_51FED735E844
2024
“Sustainable security” through river enlargements: A political ecology of nature-based solutions and flood control in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland
Metzger, Alexis; Véron, René
The largest ongoing river training project in Switzerland, the so-called Third Correction of the Rhone in the Valais, builds on nature-based solutions (river enlargements and...
serval:BIB_18C03FB0CC75
2023-10-30
10.4000/developpementdurable.22963
On the (In)visibility of Practices: Opportunities for the Promotion of Household Waste-Segregation in Western Switzerland
Makamté Kakeu-Tardy, Rolande Christelle; Howarth, Hannah; Sahakian, Marlyne; Véron, René
Organic waste is both a refuse and a resource. Focusing on household waste in a city in Western Switzerland, this study examines the practices of...
serval:BIB_BBCAC9F71118
2023-10-12
10.5334/wwwj.95
Solid waste management practices in Kirtipur Municipality, Nepal: Findings from a household survey
Ghale, Yamuna; Subedi, Basu Prasad; Upreti, Bishnu Raj
This working paper, based on a questionnaire survey with more than 400 households in Kirtipur (Nepal), identifies household waste practices (segregation, recycling, disposal, burning, etc.)...
serval:BIB_D5354F632F28
2023-09
Impact of COVID-19 on informal waste management in Sri Lanka: A case study of Boralesgamuwa Urban Council and Dehiwala - Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council
Fernando, Nishara; De Silva, Malith
The informal waste management sector in Sri Lanka has faced severe disruptions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, The pandemic has disproportionately affected informal...
serval:BIB_EBF6B5DF1B3F
2023-08
Social Structure and Solid Waste Management Practices: Findings of Household Survey in Alappuzha, Kerala (India)
Rana, Neelam; Narayanan, NC
A survey with 300 households of Avalookunnu and Thathamppally wards of Alappuzha town was conducted to examine the household SWM practices disaggregated by socio-economic structure...
serval:BIB_9268C2E9AE44
2023-08
Introducing Circularity in Decentralized Solid Waste Management: Lessons for Scaling-Up Technology Options from Alappuzha
Narayanan, NC; Ganapathy, Gautam; Joseph, Rohit; Cathareen, Navya; Viswan, Dryshya; MG, Geethu
This paper examines Alappuzha's ongoing effort to shift to a decentralized solid waste management regime. Recounting the solid waste crisis that came to a head...
serval:BIB_084207FDBB8B
2023-08
Valorization of plastic waste in Kerala
Jayanthi, T.A.; Babu, Ambat
serval:BIB_628AA4933FBE
2023-04
COVID-19 and municipal solid waste management in Sri Lanka: A preliminary qualitative study of solid waste management in selected local councils
Fernando, Nishara; De Silva, Malith; Wise, Belinda
serval:BIB_A85CD8D4E08C
2023-04
A Review of Integrated Solid Waste Management: Approach and Strategy for India with Special Focus on Kerala
Jayanthi, T A; Ambat, Babu
serval:BIB_4761887FD49E
2023-04
Municipal Soild Waste Management in Sri Lanka. A study of municipal solid waste management in Dehiwala-Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council & Boralesgamuwa Urban Council of Sri Lanka
Fernando, Nishara; De Silva, Malith
This book by Fernando and De Silva presents the scenario of solid waste in Sri Lanka by going beyond purely technical and managerial discussions. It...
serval:BIB_F748BDAFFA1A
2023
Urban Disposabilities: Garbage and the Relational Politics of Place-Making in Cartagena, Colombia
Neville, Laura
From littered plastic bottles clogging canals, to heaps of construction waste forming land over water, failed dumpsite closures, or waste pickers displaced from recycling routes,...
serval:BIB_24089BC80AA2
2023
Evaluation of the Efficacy and Sustainability of Municipal Solid Waste Management System in Kamaleswaram Ward of Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, Kerala, India
Jayanthi, T. A.; Radhakrishnan, P. V.; Byju, P.; Prasood, S. P.; Sreeram, J.
serval:BIB_525E6905BFC7
2023
Waste Management in Ovita. An Underserved Relocated Settlement in Dehiwala - Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council
Fernando, Nishara; De Silva, Malith
Based on a representative survey and in-depth interviews with residents and other stakeholders, this book by Fernando and De Silva provides detailed insights into one...
serval:BIB_9BF6FE1D409B
2023
Waste management in Ovita, an underserved relocated settlement in Dehiwala - Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council, Sri Lanka
Fernando, Nishara; de Silva, Malith
The subject of the present study is the Ovita1 relocation settlement which is located in the Dehiwala-Mt. Lavinia Municipal Council area. The site came into...
serval:BIB_86865E1981CE
2022
Waste practices in Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council and Boralesgamuwa Urban Council areas, Sri Lanka: A preliminary study of selected urban wards
Fernando, Nishara; de Silva, Malith
This working paper, based on a household survey in selected wards of the Greater Colombo Region, Sri Lanka, explores the waste management practices of households,...
serval:BIB_8973C188B521
2022
Waste chains and loops in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Upreti, Bishnu; Ghale, Yamuna; Véron, René; Upreti, Drishti; Hollenbach, Pia; Kamacharya, Yash Man; Rajbhandari, Sudarshan
The objective of this paper is to describe the current diverse and complex waste chains and loops in the Kathmandu Valley with a focus on...
serval:BIB_DAD1EDB3F2C1
2022
Le Rhône, ce fleuve que la France et la Suisse ont largement dompté… à tort ou à raison ?
Metzger, Alexis; Brochet, Antoine; Guerrin, Joana; Morera, Raphaël
Bien connu des Français, le Rhône prend sa source dans les Alpes suisses, et non dans le lac Léman comme on l'entend souvent dire !...
serval:BIB_E5570697E943
2021-09-01
Histories of Urban Deltascapes: A Comparison of Arles and Kolkata
Mukherjee, Jenia; Morera, Raphaël; Guerrin, Joana; Véron, René
Delta cities are exposed to cycles of fluvial risks that have been managed across space and time. Floods and flood mitigation in urban deltascapes are...
serval:BIB_FDE180AB109E
2021-09-01
10.3197/ge.2021.140304
The Discourse of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Sri Lanka
Fernando, Nishara; De Silva, Malith
serval:BIB_6B8F4FF34E99
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-73003-1_17
Small cities in India: Stories and reflections from a research journey
Véron, René
Neves Alves, Susana; Ruszczyk, Hanna A
René Véron's ethnographic account takes us through neighbourhoods and government offices in West Bengal and Gujarat to discuss multi-scalar environmental governance and to reflect on...
serval:BIB_1D2562C6323B
2021
Institutional structure of governance of municipal solid waste management in India
Shakir, Taenaz; Narayanan, N.C.; Véron, René
Rapid urbanization, economic growth and growing consumerism have resulted in increased solid waste generation across the globe and especially in South Asia. In this paper...
serval:BIB_E9099D5B373F
2020-11
Municipal solid waste governance in Sri Lanka: a literature review
Fernando, Nishara; Silva, Malith
This literature review focuses on exploring solid waste management in Sri Lanka in relation to three key thematic areas namely; (1) the institutional architecture of...
serval:BIB_2C8D8439993B
2020-04
Urban ponds, environmental imaginaries and (un)commoning: an urban political ecology of the pondscape in a small city in Gujarat, India
Zimmer, Anna; Véron, René; Cornea, Natasha
Urban ponds in India have for a long time been used for multiple purposes and have been accessible to a wide range of social groups;...
serval:BIB_BE197E0DD9B8
2020
Municipal solid waste management in Sri Lanka: Legislations, policy discourses, actors and projects -- with particular attention to two municipalities in the Colombo Region
Fernando, Nishara; de Silva, Malith
In the metropolitan area of Colombo, Sri Lanka, the issue of municipal solid waste management moved to the center of political attention in April 2016...
serval:BIB_29F77F296EC5
2020
Institutional architecture of municipal waste management in Nepal
Upreti, Bishnu Raj; Upreti, Drishti; Véron, René; Rajbhandari, Sudarshan; Kamacharya, Yash Man; Hollenbach, Pia
This paper focuses on the issues that are pre-dominant in the institutional architecture of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in Kathmandu. The paper also gives...
serval:BIB_1F7C222A7C8C
2020
Hunting for tonnage: waste workers' incentives in a public-private partnership in Bafoussam, Cameroon
Makamté Kakeu - Tardy, Rolande Christelle; Véron, René
Public-private partnerships are often depicted as an effective institutional arrangement to improve urban services towards sustainable development. In sub-Saharan Africa, the involvement of private parties...
serval:BIB_CC46B36E3CE9
2019-04-22
10.1080/19463138.2019.1604526
Urban development schemes, municipal finance and staffing in small cities in Gujarat and West Bengal: State and municipality level figures
Véron, René; Zimmer, Anna; Cornea, Natasha; Sanchez, Jérémie
This report provides a quantitative data set on decentralization, municipal capacity and autonomy related to environmental governance in small cities in Gujarat and West Bengal....
serval:BIB_A261841D47BB
2019
Social processes in post-crisis municipal solid waste management innovations: A proposal for research and knowledge exchange in South Asia
Véron, R.; Fernando, N.; Narayanan, N. C.; Upreti, B.; Ambat, B.; Pallawala, R.; Rao Dhananka, S.; Zurbrügg, C.
Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) has become one of the most pressing environmental issues in South Asian cities, the more so as it is closely...
serval:BIB_AD116C6F165E
2018-12-13
10.3897/rio.4.e31430
Ecologies (politiques) urbaines des étendues d'eau en Inde
Véron, René; Cornea, Natasha; Zimmer, Anna
In this article, we identify different types of urban nature, more or less « wild » or « artificialized », that are produced through the...
serval:BIB_7E1EFD00FE45
2018-07
Informal production of the city: Momos, migrants, and an urban village in Delhi
Palat Narayanan, N.; Véron, R.
This paper attempts to understand the production of the city through informality. In particular, informal practices related to the momo (dumpling) industry, concentrated in the...
serval:BIB_9B8CA9F62353
2018-05-08
10.1177/0263775818771695
Urban political ecology: landscapes of power
Zimmer, Anna; Cornea, Natasha; Véron, René
Iossifova, Deljana; Doll, Christopher N.H.; Gasparatos, Alexandros
In this chapter, we shed light on the question of how the different strands of UPE understand the ‘urban': the traditional Marxist UPE as metabolic...
serval:BIB_D318884D3354
2018
In/formal urbanism: cases drawn from Delhi
Palat Narayanan, Nipesh
This thesis attempts to critically engage with urbanization processes through the lens of informality. That is, urban informality as an enduring concept that defines, describes,...
serval:BIB_7A3BAFB26904
2018
Gestion des déchets solides municipaux à l'épreuve du partenariat public-privé à Bafoussam, Cameroun: Une analyse des inégalités environnementales dans une ville moyenne d'Afrique subsaharienne
Makamté Kakeu-Tardy, Rolande Christelle
Des inégalités sociales face à la gestion de l'environnement urbain sont de plus en plus marquées dans le monde en développement dont l'Afrique subsaharienne. Confrontées...
serval:BIB_463DAB013E85
2018
Everyday governance and urban environments: Towards a more interdisciplinary urban political ecology
Cornea, Natasha Lee; Véron, René; Zimmer, Anna
Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has mainly evolved within the discipline of geography to examine the power relations that produce uneven urban spaces (infrastructures and natures)...
serval:BIB_F1A5241782EF
2017-04
10.1111/gec3.12310
A mixed methods approach to assess animal vaccination programmes: The case of rabies control in Bamako, Mali
Mosimann, Laura; Traoré, Abdallah; Mauti, Stephanie; Léchenne, Monique; Obrist, Brigit; Véron, René; Hattendorf, Jan; Zinsstag, Jakob
serval:BIB_526DFBA991FC
2017-01
10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.10.007
Of parks and politics: the production of socio-nature in a Gujarati town
Zimmer, A.; Cornea, N.; Véron, R.
Urban parks in India are often discussed as positive environmental projects, and their creation appears as unproblematic in public discourse. This paper presents the creation...
serval:BIB_ABE66A9CA9EC
2017
10.1080/13549839.2016.1157157
Clean city politics: An urban political ecology of solid waste in West Bengal, India
Cornea, Natasha; Véron, René; Zimmer, Anna
Solid waste management is often perceived as one of the most pressing environmental problems facing local governments in urban India and elsewhere in the global...
serval:BIB_2DB3D7206390
2016-12-06
10.1177/0308518x16682028
Coconut Crisis in Kerala? Mainstream Narrative and Alternative Perspectives
Sportel, Terah; Véron, René
serval:BIB_08E62140E786
2016-09
10.1111/dech.2016.47.issue-5
Towards a Foucauldian Urban Political Ecology of water: Rethinking the hydro-social cycle and scholars' critical engagement
Rattu, P.; Véron, R.
Thirty years after the death of Michel Foucault, notwithstanding the fact that his thought has profoundly shaped the contemporary reflection and contributed to move beyond...
serval:BIB_514D1B21E62B
2016-06
Négocier l'accès, la propriété et l'autorité publique en marge de la ville. Enjeux fonciers à Niamey et production d'Etat au Niger
Meyer, Ursula
La terre périurbaine dans les villes ouest-africaines en constante expansion se retrouve sous la forte pression de l'urbanisation. Elle représente un objet de tiraillements entre...
serval:BIB_81793C68F5E2
2016
Urban environments and situated institutions : everyday governance in west Bengal
Cornea, N.
How do processes of power shape the urban environment in small Indian cities? On a day-to-day basis, who actually controls access to and the use...
serval:BIB_32B693DBEBB6
2016
Ponds, Power and Institutions: The Everyday Governance of Accessing Urban Water Bodies in a Small Bengali City
Cornea, N.; Zimmer, A.; Véron, R.
serval:BIB_C91CD31EEB7E
2016
10.1111/1468-2427.12377
Le pouvoir e(s)t l'eau. Une géo-histoire foucauldienne de l'eau urbaine en Suisse entre 1850 et aujourd'hui.
Rattu, P.
S'inscrivant dans le sous-domaine interdisciplinaire de l'Urban Political Ecology (UPE), cette thèse dresse une géo-histoire foucauldienne de l'eau urbaine, particulièrement l'eau en réseau, en Suisse...
serval:BIB_F14CE342A2C6
2015-07
How to govern the urban hydrosocial cycle : archaeo-genealogy of hydromentalities in the Swiss urban water sector between 1850 and 1950
Rattu, P.; Véron, R.
Switzerland appears to be a privileged place to investigate the urban political ecology of tap water because of the specificities of its political culture and...
serval:BIB_38408A9246FE
2015
10.5194/gh-70-33-2015
Political Ecology
Véron, R
Bourg D, Papaux A
serval:BIB_6503EE6E826E
2015
Fisheries, aquacultures and political ecology: Towards interdisciplinary and democratized research on Chilika Lake
Véron, René
serval:BIB_5E9ECED97726
2015
Untangling urban development in India: shaping cities, shaping lives
Véron, René; Zimmer, Anna; Cornea, Natasha
With an ongoing focus on the metropolises of the global South, a research team at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland is currently investigating urban...
serval:BIB_0ACA00BC2D1A
2014-11
Habiter touristique et agencement de l'espace urbain : le cas de Los Angeles : recherche sur le concours des compétences des individus quant à leurs manières de faire avec les épreuves spatiales d'une métapole touristique
Lucas, L.
Vivre, c'est passer d'un espace à un autre en essayant le plus possible de ne pas se cogner déclamait George Pérec. Cet énoncé poétiquement géographique...
serval:BIB_7D4D95DF7B98
2014
A Tale of Tribals, Traders and Tubers : The political ecology of forest degradation in Madhya Pradesh
Véron, R.
Guha, A.; Chakrabarty, F.; Bose, K.S.
serval:BIB_B273575F8AC6
2014
Urban geography in the era of globalization : the cities of the future. Emerging knowledge and urban regulations
Da Cunha, Antonio; Mager, Christophe; Matthey, L.aurent; Pini, Giuseppe; Rozenblat, Céline; Véron, René
serval:BIB_BCD85F068912
2012
10.5194/gh-67-67-2012
Politics of middlemen and political society
Corbridge, S; Williams, G; Srivastava, M; Véron, R
Gudavarthy, A
serval:BIB_525450B13D42
2012
10.7135/UPO9780857289469.009
State power and protected areas: Dynamics and contradictions of forest conservation in Madhya Pradesh, India
Véron, René; Fehr, Garry
The traditionally coercive and state-controlled governance of protected areas for nature conservation in developing countries has in many cases undergone change in the context of...
serval:BIB_7E4823FAE42C
2011
10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.05.004
Micro-insurance through corporate-NGO partnerships in West Bengal : opportunities and constraints
Véron, R.; Majumdar, A.
This Practical Note examines the nascent micro-insurance sector in West Bengal, paying particular attention to the corporate- NGO partnership model for micro-insurance distribution,which has been...
serval:BIB_84B1AA4003FF
2011
10.1080/09614524.2011.530229
Small Cities, Neoliberal Governance and Sustainable Development in the Global South: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda
Véron, René
Development and environmental issues of small cities in developing countries have largely been overlooked although these settlements are of global demographic importance and often face...
serval:BIB_917320221C6E
2010-09-06
10.3390/su2092833
Cashing in India's forests : globalisation, reform and medicinal plants in Madhya Pradesh
Fehr, Garry; Véron, René
Nayak, B.S.
serval:BIB_2B7E7FC4B32B
2007
Seeing the state again
Corbridge, Stuart; Williams, Glyn; Srivastava, Manoj; Véron, René
serval:BIB_EF9CCF0E119A
2007
10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.11.020
Globalization and the poor : sustaining rural livelihoods
Srivastava, R. S.; Véron, R.; Asthana, M. D.
serval:BIB_97B7C005AABA
2006-03
Remaking urban environments : the political ecology of air pollution in Delhi
Véron, René
In the growing field of urban political ecology, so far not much attention has been paid to air-quality and related policies. In this paper I...
serval:BIB_5B22C676D8BB
2006
10.1068/a37449
Unintended consequences : ex-situ cultivation of medicinal plants and forest resource depletion in Madhya Pradesh
Véron, René; Fehr, Garry
serval:BIB_ADE9C7CDD584
2006
Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India
Véron, René; Williams, Glyn; Corbridge, Stuart; Srivastava, Manoj
Democratic decentralization and community participation often stand at the center of an agenda of "good governance" that aims to reduce corruption and increase the state's...
serval:BIB_A88DA041B81D
2006
10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.11.024
Globalization and the poor : sustaining rural livelihood
Srivastava R, S; Véron, René; Asthana M, D
serval:BIB_6DB8DA46728D
2005-06
Seeing the State : Governance and governmentality in rural India
Corbridge, Stuart; Williams, Glyn; Srivastava, Manoj; Véron, René
Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements...
serval:BIB_F611D269E89B
2005
10.1017/CBO9780511492211
Globalization and the poor : sustaining rural livelihoods in India
Srivastava, R. S.; Véron, R.
serval:BIB_039759C471AE
2005
Globalisierung und Agrarproduktmärkte in Kerala : Die Beispiele Cashew und Kautschuk
Véron, René; Strasser, Balz; Geiser, Urs
serval:BIB_90CFF161922B
2004
The Everyday State and Political Society in Eastern India : Structuring Access to the Employment Assurance Scheme
Véron, René; Corbridge, Stuart; Williams, Glyn; Srivastava, Manoj
The positive roles that political parties might play in development have recently been downplayed in favour of accounts of the virtues of civil society and...
serval:BIB_F8889B91199B
2003
10.1080/00220380412331333129
Making social science matter - I : How the local state works in rural Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal
Corbridge, Stuart; Williams, Glyn; Srivastava, Manoj; Véron, René
The state in its efforts to meet the needs of the poor has four major functions of governance - developmental, empowermental, protective and disciplinary. This...
serval:BIB_7A4B07B96414
2003
Enhancing pro-poor governance in Eastern India : participation, politics and action research
Williams, Glyn; Srivastava, Manoj; Corbridge, Stuart; Véron, René
This paper uses the experience of a recent programme of action research in Eastern India to reflect on the use of participatory ideals within governance...
serval:BIB_8D845A4865F1
2003
10.1191/1464993403ps059ra
Participation and Power : Poor People's Engagement with India's Employment Assurance Scheme
Williams, Glyn; Véron, René; Corbridge, Stuart; Srivastava, Manoj
'Participation' has become an essential part of good developmental practice for Southern governments, NGOs and international agencies alike. In this article we reflect critically on...
serval:BIB_4FA0B160A0CF
2003
10.1111/1467-7660.00300
Making social science matter - II : How the rural poor see the state in rural Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal
Corbridge, Stuart; Williams, Glyn; Srivastava, Manoj; Véron, René
Part I of this paper, which appeared last week, described the patterns of participation of the rural poor in state-sponsored schemes and the characteristics of...
serval:BIB_B5D28A014DE8
2003
Brainstorming modified logframes and the conversion of research hypotheses into field questions: reflections from team-based fieldwork in Eastern India
Corbridge, Stuart; Williams, Glyn; Srivastava, Manoj; Véron, René
serval:BIB_3AE8B4BCE4A8
2003
10.1111/1467-9493.00155
Making sense of the local state : Rent-seeking, vernacular society and the Employment Assurance Scheme in eastern India
Srivastava, Manoj; Corbridge, Stuart; Véron, René; Williams, Glyn
This paper opens a window on the local state in eastern India. It studies the ways in which government officers in five districts of Bihar...
serval:BIB_3D39FB8F637D
2002
10.1080/0958493032000057690
Enhancing pro-poor governance in West Bengal and Biha, India (West Bengal)
Véron, René; Williams, Glyn; Sarkar, Dibyendu; Srivastava, Manoj; Corbridge, Stuart
serval:BIB_14A72CB29BB6
2001
Rural poverty, the development state and spaces of empowerment in West Bengal and Bihar
Corbridge, Stuart; Williams, Glyn; Srivastava, Manoj; Véron, René
serval:BIB_FD43A2D216A3
2001
The "new" Kerala model : lessons for sustainable development
Véron, René
The "Kerala model of development" has won wide international attention for its achievements in regard to social development and, to a certain extent, environmental sustainability....
serval:BIB_A5FDD1C61E86
2001
10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00119-4
Primary Education in West Bengal
Véron, René
serval:BIB_5BCDC364B5A1
2000-10
Sustainability and the "new" Kerala model
Véron, René
Parayil, Govindan
serval:BIB_D89F53EC3CBE
2000
Whose knowledge matters? Traders, farmers and mango development projects in Kerala, India
Véron, René
I have noticed that those involved in development projects involving commercial farming are beginning to realize that the knowledge of farmers is of considerable value....
serval:BIB_2C057D9C09A2
2000
The Employment Assurance Scheme in West Bengal
Véron, René
serval:BIB_C7AB875CD71C
2000
Real markets and environmental change in Kerala, India : a new understanding of the impact of crop markets on sustainable development
Véron, René
Environmental degradation is an increasingly serious problem for Third World countries, and one that has a major impact on the health and livelihoods of the...
serval:BIB_C91BE2BDB949
1999
10.4324/9780429448324
Märkte contra Nachhaltige Entwicklung? Cashew- und Ananasanbau in Kerala, Indien
Véron, René
Kohlhepp, Gerd; Coy, Martin
Markets Against Sustainable Development? Cultivation of Cashew and Pineapple in Kerala, India -- In the light of economic liberalization, persisting poverty and increasing environmental degradation...
serval:BIB_F0389C446AF0
1998
Pineapple-related land management and pineapple markets in Kerala: description of processes in three localities from an action-oriented perspective
Véron, René
serval:BIB_0E902F6FCD7E
1998
Markets, Environment and Development in South India
Véron, René
serval:BIB_DE7E9F8BD0CC
1998
Konstituierung von Kleinunternehmer-Selbsthilfegruppen in städtischen Java, Indonesien
Véron, René
serval:BIB_9147FE19D9D2
1994
10.5194/gh-49-125-1994
Kleinunternehmer-Selbsthilfegruppen im städtischen Java, Indonesien
Véron, René
serval:BIB_20BE6F714A27
1993

Thèses de doctorat

en chargement...

Memoires

en chargement...