Informing Water Policies in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Prakash, Anjal; Singh, Sreoshi; Goodrich, Chanda Gurung

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book attempts to gather innovative knowledge on water policies in South Asia, in a holistic, transnational and integrated framework, to address questions of equity, gender, sustainability and democratic governance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317560111
• Artikelnr.: 54251084

Autorenporträt

Anjal Prakash is Executive Director, South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs), Hyderabad, India. Chanda Gurung Goodrich is Principal Scientist, Empower Women, International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. Sreoshi Singh is Research Fellow, SaciWATERs, and a doctoral candidate at the Center for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword E.R.N. Gunawardena. Acknowledgements. Part I: Understanding of
Need of Integrated Water Management in South Asia Informing Water Policies
for Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia Anjal Prakash,
Chanda Gurung Goodrich and Sreoshi Singh 1. Towards Integrated Water
Policies in South Asia: From Critique to Constructive Engagement Amita Shah
and Anjal Prakash Part II: Gender and Water 2. Challenging the Flow:
Gendered Participation, Equity and Sustainability in Decentralized Water
Governance in Gujarat Sara Ahmed 3. Rethinking Gender Inclusion and Equity
in Irrigation Policy: Insights from Nepal Pranita Bhushan Udas 4. Entering
Male Domain and Challenging Stereotypes: A Case Study on Gender and
Irrigation in Sindh, Pakistan Shaheen Ashraf Shah and Nazeer Ahmed Memon
5. An Attempt at Quantification of Women's Empowerment in Small-Scale Water
Resources Project Sayeda Asifa Ashrafi and Rezaur Rahman Part III: Managing
Groundwater 6. Impact of Electricity Tariff Policy on Groundwater Use: The
Case of West Bengal, India Aditi Mukherji, B. Das, N. Majumdar, B. R.
Sharma and P. S. Banerjee 7. Are Wells a Potential Threat to Farmers'
Well-being? The Case of Deteriorating Groundwater Irrigation in Tamil Nadu,
India S. Janakarajan and M. Moench Part IV: Water Conflicts and Cooperation
in South Asia 8. Water Conflicts, Contending Water Uses and Agenda for a
New Policy, Legal and Institutional Framework K. J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape
9. Inter-sector Allocation of Hirakud Dam Water: An Economic Analysis
Sanjukta Das 10. Sustainable Management and Regional Cooperation for
Himalayan Waters Ramesh Ananda Vaidya and Madhav Bahadur Karki Part V:
Water in Changing Contexts 11. Growing City, Diminishing Water Access:
Urbanization and Peri-urban Water Use in Gurgaon and Faridabad, India
Vishal Narain 12. Filtering Dirty Water and Finding Fresh One: Engaging
with Tradition in Dug-Well Intervention in North Bihar Luisa Cortesi.