Overview
- Highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia
- Illustrates socio-economic, infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of water management and security
- Includes case studies on major river basins in the region, such as Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Narmada, Godavari and Krishna
Part of the book series: Contemporary South Asian Studies (CSAS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Framework
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Water Trade-offs Between Nature and Mankind
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Water Trade-offs Between Sectoral and Regional Water Issues
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Institutions and Sustainable Regional Use of Water
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sumana Bandyopadhyay is professor at the Department of Geography of Calcutta University in India, specialized in Regional Planning and Urban Environmental Planning. She published books and scientific peer review articles as well as many interdisciplinary applied work on environmental, societal and development issues.
Sucharita Sen is the Executive Director of SaciWATERs in October 2016 and is a Professor in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was a Nehru-Fulbright Fellow in 2009-10 and was associated with Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA during this period.
Habibullah Magsi currently works at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sindh Agriculture University. Habibullah does research in Development Economics. Their current project is 'Proximate driving forces of "land use conflicts" in developing countries
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho isa professor at the University of the Azores, Portugal in the domains of Regional, Environmental and Agricultural Economics. Since 2011 he is the executive director of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and since 2017 the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Regional Science Policy and Practice.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Management in South Asia
Book Subtitle: Socio-economic, Infrastructural, Environmental and Institutional Aspects
Editors: Sumana Bandyopadhyay, Habibullah Magsi, Sucharita Sen, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
Series Title: Contemporary South Asian Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35237-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35236-3Published: 30 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35239-4Published: 30 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35237-0Published: 29 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-4173
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 260
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Regional/Spatial Science, Regional Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Economics