| Description |
l, 435 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : Placing Water First by Kuntala Lahiri ¿Dutt -- Section I -- The Regional Politics of Water in South Asia -- 1. National and Regional Water Concerns: Setting the Scene -- Ramaswamy R.Iyer -- Pakistan -- India -- Nepal -- Bhutan -- Bangladesh -- A Resume of Convergences and Divergences -- Conclusion -- 2. The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia: A Geomorphological Perspective on Managing Monsoon Rivers -- Avijit Gupta -- Rivers, Form and Function -- River Management: Objectives and Procedure -- Monsoon Rivers in Asia: Distribution and Characteristics -- Managing Monsoon Rivers -- Concluding Remarks -- 3. The Politics of Water in Colonial India: The Emergence of Control -- David Hardiman -- Introduction -- Early Interventions -- Canal Networks -- From Rainfed to Irrigated Farming -- 4. The Regional Politics of Water Sharing: Contemporary Issues in South Asia -- Douglas Hill -- Introduction -- Political Economy of Water in South Asia -- Disputes over Water -- Future Outlook -- 5. Global Conventions and Regulations on International Rivers: Implications for South Asia -- Binayak Ray -- Regulating Rivers in a Volatile Region -- The 1997 UNGA Convention -- India¿s Water-Sharing Treaties -- China: A Key Player on Riparian Water Policy -- Under China¿s Shadow -- 6. River-Linking and its Discontents : The Final Plunge for Supply ¿Side Hydrology in India -- Rohan D¿Souza -- Roots of River-Linking Plans -- History and Hydraulic Practice -- The Collapse of Supply-Side Hydrology -- The Nature of Flooding and Drainage -- The Global Water Crisis and the Rise of Demand Management -- Towards a New Approach -- Section II -- Regional Issues , Challenges and Approaches -- 7. Water Quality and Economic Growth in India -- R.J.Wasson -- Introduction -- The EKC and Water Quality -- India¿s Economic Development -- The Quality of River Water in India( BOD and Fecal Coloforms) -- Institutional Developments -- Summary and Conclusions -- 8. When a Public Health Story Goes Sour: Arsenic Contaminated Drinking Water in Bangladesh -- Bruce Caldwell -- Water, Water, Everywhere , Nor Any Drop to Drink -- Tubewells: The Key to Safe Water -- Arsenic: A Cruel Blow -- The Health and Social Research Project -- The Risks and Benefits of Arsenic Intervention -- Intervention Study -- Conclusion -- 9. Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water : Social Determinants of an Environment Crisis in India -- Atanu Sarkar -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Processes Determining Manifestations -- Conclusion -- 10. Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia: The Challenge of Community ¿Managed Alternatives -- Sara Ahmed -- Gender in Water Management -- Understanding Gender in IWRM -- Gender and Water in South Asia: An Overview -- Mainstreaming Gender in Livelihoods: Water for Agriculture -- Irrigation and Gender -- Gender and Domestic Water Supply -- Gender and Sanitation ¿ Still Cinderella¿s Slipper? -- Mainstreaming Gender in IWRM: Challenges Now -- 11. Institutions For Integrated Water Resources Management : Lessons From Four Indian States -- Vishal Narain and Saurabh Chugh -- Why IWRM? -- Approaches to IWRM -- Irrigation Reforms -- Reforms in Drinking Water Supply -- Integration in Watershed Management -- Conclusion -- 12. Top-down or Bottom-up? Water Management at the Local Level in South Asia. -- Saravanan V.S -- Introduction -- Constitutional Background -- Water Policies: Shaping and Reshaping Landscapes -- Water Legislation -- Water Administration: Multiple and Complex -- Top-down or Bottom-up? -- 13. Watershed Development Programmes and Rural Development : A Review of Indian Policies -- Sucharita Sen -- Introduction -- A Review of Policies for Land Resource Management -- Evolution of Watershed Policy in India -- Assessing the Watershed Programmes -- Future Directions and Policy Implications -- Section III -- Interpreting Community Roles and Initiatives -- 14. Beyond ¿Dispositif¿ and ¿De-politicization¿ : Spaces of Civil Society in Water Conservation in Rural Rajasthan -- Saurabh Gupta and Subir Sinha -- The Power of International Development: Determining, Structuring , or Just an Element in the Mix? -- The Activist NGO as Development Agent -- ¿Room for Manoeuver at the Bottom¿ or ¿Change from Below¿ -- The Power of Grassroots and Networks for Change -- TBS and the Space Outside the State -- Autonomy, Civil Society and the Colonizing / De-politicizing Effects of the Development ¿Dispositif¿ -- 15. Submerged Voices and Transnational Environmentalism : The Movement Against the Sardar Sarovar Dam -- Judy Whitehead -- Narmada Bachao Andolan in Context -- From Social Contradictions to International Environmentalism -- Transnational Environmentalism and the Politics of Representation -- The Politics of Attrition, 1996¿ 2001 -- Conclusions -- 16. Negotiating Water Management in the Damodar Valley: Kalikata Hearing and the DVC -- Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- The ¿Public¿ Hearing on DVC -- Inventing the River -- Intervention for Water Control -- Replicating the State: The Boro Bandhs -- Resistance to DVC -- 17. Endogenous Water Resource Management in North ¿ East Bangladesh: Lessons from the Haor Basin -- Jennifer Duyne Barenstein -- Water Resource Management by Communities -- The Conditions for Participation -- The Haor Basin -- Sonar Haor -- The Provision and Maintenance of Hydraulic Infrastructure -- Village Funds -- Informal Rules, Values and Norms -- Conclusions -- 18. Everyday Waterscapes: Perception and Negotiation of Water Locales in Varanasi -- Stephen Lemcke -- Everyday in Varanasi -- The Regionalization of Water Locales -- The Water Meanings of Water Locales: Perceived and Imagined Waterscapes -- Water Locales as Sources of Conflict -- Concluding Remarks -- 19. The Ganga (or the Problems of Translation) -- Annie Bolitho -- Paying Respect to opposition -- The Sankat Mochan Foundation -- Our Boat, Our River? -- Holy water -- Rationalizing Rivers -- Naming Realties -- Reasoning with the River -- Time and the River -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both nations and 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 complementary explanations for these daunting challenges of envisioning water management in one of the most densely populated parts of the world with a long history of water control |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental policy -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
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Sustainable development -- South Asia.
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Water resources development -- South Asia -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1956-
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Wasson, R.
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| LC no. |
2008022532 |
| ISBN |
9780761936251 hardcover : back |
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0761936254 hardcover : back |
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