Geoffrey D. Gooch,Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Management and Economics, Political Science, geoffrey.gooch@liu.se
Abstract
The successful governance of transboundary water depends on the interaction of law, policy, actors and institutions. This paper presents a framework for the analyses of these interactions using the example of the Sesan River (Vietnam and Cambodia). Law and policy represent two different but complementary forms of enforcement of agreements and need to be studied together. Both play specific roles in transboundary water management. Also, selecting either an actor-based or institutional perspective often fails to provide sufficient understanding of transboundary water governance. This paper therefore adapts an actor-network perspective that examines the complex nets of actors and institutions, and how law and policy creates different forms of interaction between them. Finally, the paper proposes an analytical framework for the study of law, policy, actors and institutions in the implementation of transboundary water governance.
Keywords Law, Policy, Actors and Institutions