Sustainable Development in India

Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production
Herausgeber: Fujita, Koichi; Mizushima, Tsukasa

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores and interrogates the food-water-energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780367460976
• ISBN-10: 0367460971
• Artikelnr.: 60022410

Autorenporträt

Koichi Fujita is Professor of Economics at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. Tsukasa Mizushima is Professor Emeritus at The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I Land, Water, and Population in the Past and Future
2. Land Development and Demographic Change in Tamil Nadu from the Late
Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century 3. From Sharing Risks to Taking
Risks: System of Entitlements and its Fragmentation in Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Century Orissa 4. Bengal Agrarian Society during late Colonial
Rule: The Development of the Sundarbans 5. Sustaining Tank Irrigation in
South India through Time-Tested Measures 6. Ahar: A Traditional Irrigation
System in Southern Bihar Part II Regional Path Dependencies and Policy
Orientations for Sustainability 7. Overview of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
in India and South Asia 8. Challenges of Growth and Sustainability:
Agriculture in Indian Punjab 9. Nitrogen Cycle and Fertilizer Subsidy in
India 10. Sustainability of Groundwater-Irrigated Agriculture in India:
Case Studies of Punjab and Tamil Nadu 11. Farm Power Policies and
Groundwater Markets: Contrasting Gujarat with West Bengal (1990-2015)