Water first : issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia /

This book outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both the. nations and the communities of the South Asian region, particularly India, where. control over water has always been a symbol of social and political power. It. explores the adequacy of the competing and/or complementa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1956-, Wasson, Robert J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi : Sage Publications, 2008.
Temas:
Water resources development > South Asia > Case studies.
Ressources en eau > Exploitation > Asie méridionale > Études de cas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Water resources development
South Asia
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Placing Water First; National and Regional Water Concerns; The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia; The Politics of Water in Colonial India; The Regional Politics of Water Sharing; Global Conventions and Regulations on International Rivers; River-linking and its Discontents; Water Quality and Economic Growth in India; When a Public Health Story Goes Sour; Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water; Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia; Institutions for Integrated Water Resources Management; Top-down or Bottom-up?
  • Watershed Development Programmes and Rural DevelopmentBeyond 'Dispositif' and 'De-politicization'; Submerged Voices and Transnational Environmentalism; Negotiating Water Management in the Damodar Valley; Endogenous Water Resource Management in North-East Bangladesh; Everyday Waterscapes; The Ganga (or the Problems of Translation); About the Editors and Contributors; Index

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