000 00455nam a2200133Ia 4500
999 _c200445
_d200445
020 _a9789352801282
040 _cDepartment of Social Science
100 _aDutt, Kuntala Lahiri
245 0 _aWater first: Issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia/
_cedited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt; Robert J Wasson
260 _bSAGE,
_c2008.
505 _aCover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Placing Water First; National and Regional Water Concerns; The Monsoon Rivers of South Asia; The Politics of Water in Colonial India; The Regional Politics of Water Sharing; Global Conventions and Regulations on International Rivers; River-linking and its Discontents; Water Quality and Economic Growth in India; When a Public Health Story Goes Sour; Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water; Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia; Institutions for Integrated Water Resources Management; Top-down or Bottom-up? Watershed Development Programmes and Rural DevelopmentBeyond 'Dispositif' and 'De-politicization'; Submerged Voices and Transnational Environmentalism; Negotiating Water Management in the Damodar Valley; Endogenous Water Resource Management in North-East Bangladesh; Everyday Waterscapes; The Ganga (or the Problems of Translation); About the Editors and Contributors; Index
650 _aSocial Science
700 _aWasson, Robert J ed.
856 _uhttps://evidya.sagepub.in/library/water-first?bookId=3119&siteName=evidya
942 _cEBK