Water Conflicts and Resistance (eBook, PDF)

Issues and Challenges in South Asia
Redaktion: Dutta, Venkatesh

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines transboundary, regional and local water conflicts and resistance across river basins in South Asia. It discusses land and natural resource rights; resettlement of dam-displaced people; urban-rural conflicts over water allocation; peri-urbanisation, land use conflicts and water security; and resilience against water conflicts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000408232
• Artikelnr.: 62113138

Autorenporträt

Venkatesh Dutta is Professor at School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India, and a natural resource management specialist.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Shared Water: Contest, Conflicts and Cooperation PART I: Transboundary
Conflicts 2. Negotiated Resolution of Transboundary Disputes: A Function of
Facts, Frames and Fairness 3. From Lukewarm to Meaningful: Understanding
and Transforming Transboundary Water Cooperation in the Indian Subcontinent
4. 'Shared' Waterscapes: The Case of River Ravi in Indian and Pakistan
Punjab 5. Transcending Boundaries for Sustainability in the Koshi Basin:
Contestations and Cooperation 6. Environmental Justice for the Victims of
the Koshi River Project: The Context and Elements of Transboundary Legal
Response 7. Benefits and Burden: A Case Study of Gandak River Agreement
PART II: Regional and Local Conflicts 8. Peri-urbanisation and Changing
Water Flows: Competition, Conflicts and Cooperation 9. Disaster-Induced
Water Conflicts and Gender: A Study of Floods in South Asia 10. Examining
Inter-linkages between Water Scarcity and Human Security: A Case Study of
Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh, India 11. Urban Rivers and Their
Riverfronts: When Restoration Becomes Real Estate Projects 12. Conflict and
Resistance over Water Reallocation: The Case of Surya Irrigation Project in
Maharashtra