Tushaar Shah

Taming the Anarchy (eBook, PDF)

Groundwater Governance in South Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1947, British India - the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh - emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. Taming the Anarchy is about the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control. It is about both the massive benefit that the irrigation economy has created and the ill-fare it threatens through depleted aquifers and pollution. Tushaar Shah brings exceptional insight into a socio-ecological phenomenon that has befuddled scientists and policymakers alike. In systematic fashion, he investigates the forces behind the transformation of South Asian irrigation and considers its social, economic, and ecological impacts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136524035
• Artikelnr.: 38274655

Autorenporträt

Tushaar Shah is a senior advisor at the International Water Management Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Author
Preface
Introduction
1. The Hydraulic Past: Irrigation and State Formation
2. Rise of the Colossus
3. The Future of Flow Irrigation
4. Wells and Welfare
5. Diminishing Returns?
6. Aquifers and Institutions
7. Can the Anarchy be Tamed?
8. Thriving in Anarchy
Endnotes
Glossary of Hindi and Other Terms
References
Index