Droughts and integrated water resource management in South Asia: Issues, alternatives and futures/
Jasveen Jairath; Vishwa Ballabh
- SAGE, 2008.
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Note; Acknowledgements; Preface; The Context and Problematique; Elusive Rains and Parched Lands: Situating Drought in Colonial India; Gender and Drought in South Asia: Dominant Constructions and Alternate Propositions; An Alternative Approach to Drought and Drought-proofing; Understanding Drought--Implications, Strategies and Policies in Sri Lanka; Incidence, Impacts and Management of Droughts in India: An Overview; Scarcity in Abundance: Issues of Droughts in Bangladesh; Droughts in Pakistan--A Socio-political Perspective. Drought and Public Policy in Tamilnadu, IndiaJohad Versus Watershed: Case Study of Tarun Bharat Sangh's Approach; Converting Calamity into Opportunity: Natural Resource Enhancement through Participatory Drought Relief Programme; Management of Scarcity and Scarcity of Mahabubnagar District, Andhra Pradesh, India: A Case Study; About the Editors and Contributors; Index.