Water Security in India: Hope, Despair, and the Challenges of Human Development
Autor Dr. Vandana Asthana, Dr. A. C. Shuklaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2014
Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781441179364
ISBN-10: 1441179364
Pagini: 414
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1441179364
Pagini: 414
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Preface
Part I
Chapter 1: Introducing the concept: Water security
Chapter 2: Water resources of India
Part II
Chapter 3: Agriculture and irrigation development in India
Chapter 4: Industrialization, urbanization and population growth
Chapter 5: Vulnerability of climate change
Chapter 6: Policy and institutional drivers
Part III
Chapter 7: Privatization of water
Chapter 8: Intrastate water disputes
Chapter 9: Water security in India's neighborhood
Chapter 10: Water vision and shifts in management practices
Chapter 11: Water security: Hope and despair
Bibliography
Index
Part I
Chapter 1: Introducing the concept: Water security
Chapter 2: Water resources of India
Part II
Chapter 3: Agriculture and irrigation development in India
Chapter 4: Industrialization, urbanization and population growth
Chapter 5: Vulnerability of climate change
Chapter 6: Policy and institutional drivers
Part III
Chapter 7: Privatization of water
Chapter 8: Intrastate water disputes
Chapter 9: Water security in India's neighborhood
Chapter 10: Water vision and shifts in management practices
Chapter 11: Water security: Hope and despair
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
An impressive addition to the growing body of literature reexamining the definition of "security" in the 21st century. Further distinguishing this work is the authors' thoughtful examination of water security as it applies to India-making this one of the first studies to do so.
This book affords an important, well-researched case study on the problem of freshwater sustainability. The authors tackle the complex issue of how human security is actually a tightly-interconnected array of factors including governance; particularly state capacity for regulating water supply and quality, as well as private water rights, water markets, and trans-boundary institutions which cooperate over water allocation. By rejecting that narrow definition of human security as the avoidance, say, of basin-wide conflicts that threaten peacekeeping, Asthana and Shukla are able to show how this important concept actually require institutions charged with managing vital resources such as water to: provide for basic human needs; ensure the renewability of a resource; and, reduce vulnerability to climate and other environmental hazards which threaten its vigor. They further argue that human security for water is achieved by enabling the political and economic institutions which manage these resources to become more resilient through reforms that make them more representative as well as responsive to popular demands and socially-just outcomes. Students of water policy everywhere will immensely benefit from this work - not just scholars focused on South Asia."
[Water Security in India] makes a compelling and data-driven case for waking up to the alarming realities of water challenges faced by the Indian subcontinent . . . For anybody interested in water security, its intricate links with other forms of security and the threats water stress poses to the South Asian region in general . . . this book is a must read!
Water more then anything else will play a major role in either preserving or destroying life in the 21st century. With climate change and global warming threatening the planet, a focused study like this is an eye-opener, which we cannot choose to ignore
This book affords an important, well-researched case study on the problem of freshwater sustainability. The authors tackle the complex issue of how human security is actually a tightly-interconnected array of factors including governance; particularly state capacity for regulating water supply and quality, as well as private water rights, water markets, and trans-boundary institutions which cooperate over water allocation. By rejecting that narrow definition of human security as the avoidance, say, of basin-wide conflicts that threaten peacekeeping, Asthana and Shukla are able to show how this important concept actually require institutions charged with managing vital resources such as water to: provide for basic human needs; ensure the renewability of a resource; and, reduce vulnerability to climate and other environmental hazards which threaten its vigor. They further argue that human security for water is achieved by enabling the political and economic institutions which manage these resources to become more resilient through reforms that make them more representative as well as responsive to popular demands and socially-just outcomes. Students of water policy everywhere will immensely benefit from this work - not just scholars focused on South Asia."
[Water Security in India] makes a compelling and data-driven case for waking up to the alarming realities of water challenges faced by the Indian subcontinent . . . For anybody interested in water security, its intricate links with other forms of security and the threats water stress poses to the South Asian region in general . . . this book is a must read!
Water more then anything else will play a major role in either preserving or destroying life in the 21st century. With climate change and global warming threatening the planet, a focused study like this is an eye-opener, which we cannot choose to ignore