Water Management in South Asia: Socio-economic, Infrastructural, Environmental and Institutional Aspects

Sumana Bandyopadhyay · Habibullah Magsi · Sucharita Sen · Tomaz Ponce Dentinho

Jan 2020 · Springer Nature

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This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia. In light of increasing urbanization and development in the region and related pressure on water resources, the contributions investigate water conflictual and cooperative attitudes and gestures between countries and regions; analyse management trade-offs between nature, agriculture and urban uses; and examine water sustainable management and related policies. By studying major river basins in the region, such as Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Narmada, Godavari and Krishna, the chapters highlight socio-economic, infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of water scarcity in South Asia and present best practices for improved sustainable water management and security in the region.

About the author

Sumana Bandyopadhyay is professor at the Department of Geography of Calcutta University in India, specialized in Regional Planning and Urban Environmental Planning. She published books and scientific peer review articles as well as many interdisciplinary applied work on environmental, societal and development issues.

Sucharita Sen is the Executive Director of SaciWATERs in October 2016 and is a Professor in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was a Nehru-Fulbright Fellow in 2009-10 and was associated with Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA during this period.

Habibullah Magsi currently works at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sindh Agriculture University. Habibullah does research in Development Economics. Their current project is 'Proximate driving forces of "land use conflicts" in developing countries

Tomaz Ponce Dentinho isa professor at the University of the Azores, Portugal in the domains of Regional, Environmental and Agricultural Economics. Since 2011 he is the executive director of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and since 2017 the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Regional Science Policy and Practice.

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