Sustainability and the indispensability of politics: a study of sanitation partnerships in urban India
by Govind Gopakumar
International Journal of Sustainable Society (IJSSOC), Vol. 2, No. 4, 2010

Abstract: The chronic absence of hygienic sanitation for many urban Indians and the resultant contamination of surface water sources are a major cause for the poor environmental condition in most cities in India. In the past decade, public–private partnerships have been presented as an innovative strategy to rectify this pervasive problem. Numerous partnerships to improve sanitation have been launched in India as experiments. But while some of these partnerships have become sustainable, others have collapsed. This paper uses purposive transition analysis to inquire into the selective success of some notable partnerships. Making the connection that strategy and politics are indispensable to the endurance of partnerships, this paper concludes that sustainability in India is inherently a political enterprise that cannot be reduced to technical definitions.

Online publication date: Thu, 18-Nov-2010

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