River Health And Ecology In South Asia

Author : Bidhan Chandra Patra,Pravat Kumar Shit,Gouri Sankar Bhunia,Manojit Bhattacharya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030835545

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River Health and Ecology in South Asia by Bidhan Chandra Patra,Pravat Kumar Shit,Gouri Sankar Bhunia,Manojit Bhattacharya Pdf

This volume reviews recent hydrological and environmental issues resulting from human-induced water pollution practices while providing case studies on the physical, chemical, and eco-biological techniques used to mitigate the impacts of river ecosystem pollution in South Asian countries. The book demonstrates the key methods of measurement, monitoring, mapping, and modeling of river water quality and how it is impacted by pollution and incorporates contemporary geospatial technological applications for the management and sustainability of future water resources. The major topics that the book addresses are the fundamental concepts of river ecosystem health, riverine ecology and habitats, risk assessment of riverine pollution, and technology-based river pollution control strategies. The book will serve as an interdisciplinary guide for researchers, students, and GIS specialists working in various disciplines, including pollution hazards, river ecosystem restoration, water quality, remote sensing, zoology, natural resources management, and environmental geography. .

Author : Bidhan Chandra Patra,Pravat Kumar Shit,Gouri Sankar Bhunia,Manojit Bhattacharya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030835538

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River Health and Ecology in South Asia by Bidhan Chandra Patra,Pravat Kumar Shit,Gouri Sankar Bhunia,Manojit Bhattacharya Pdf

This volume reviews recent hydrological and environmental issues resulting from human-induced water pollution practices while providing case studies on the physical, chemical, and eco-biological techniques used to mitigate the impacts of river ecosystem pollution in South Asian countries. The book demonstrates the key methods of measurement, monitoring, mapping, and modeling of river water quality and how it is impacted by pollution and incorporates contemporary geospatial technological applications for the management and sustainability of future water resources. The major topics that the book addresses are the fundamental concepts of river ecosystem health, riverine ecology and habitats, risk assessment of riverine pollution, and technology-based river pollution control strategies. The book will serve as an interdisciplinary guide for researchers, students, and GIS specialists working in various disciplines, including pollution hazards, river ecosystem restoration, water quality, remote sensing, zoology, natural resources management, and environmental geography.

Author : E. R. N. Gunawardena,Brij Gopal,Hemesiri Kotagama
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000365665

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Ecosystems and Integrated Water Resources Management in South Asia by E. R. N. Gunawardena,Brij Gopal,Hemesiri Kotagama Pdf

This book provides an ecosystem perspective in addressing the water resource management issues in the South Asian region. It argues that aspects such as sources of water, its distribution and users; land–water interrelations; drivers of change such as laws, policies and institutions; management of issues and technologies related to water supply; institutional set-up; economic instruments such as pricing, taxes, subsidies; and economics of ecosystem services are crucial. Climate changes, melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, rising sea level and the increased frequency of extreme events, have to be factored into integrated management of water resources. This book addresses some of these major issues related to aquatic ecosystems and focuses on three major aspects: (a) concepts related to ecosystems, ecosystem services and their linkages with water; (b) human impacts on ecosystems, particularly the aquatic ecosystems, and their assessment; and (c) the management, including policy, governance and economics. Comprising new theories, research and case studies, the book will be useful those concerned with water resource management – professionals, students and researchers.

Author : Imtiaz Ahmed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319673745

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South Asian Rivers by Imtiaz Ahmed Pdf

This volume identifies existing statist approaches and political economies of river management in South Asia. These rivers are heavily suffering from millions of people who in contrast consider them as holy and worship them. Edited by Professor Imtiaz Ahmed, the contributors of this book from India, Nepal and Pakistan are leading readers on a journey through the transboundary rivers of South Asia where rivers are vital for the life and living. The book explains why the region needs a framework for cooperation on the wellbeing of these rivers. River management is the key to sustaining healthy river systems. The authors stress that right of the rivers must be codified and guaranteed by the state and the people in South Asia. However, the statist approach to the transboundary rivers in South Asia actually conceives them as national rivers. This volume contributes to the current campaign of overcoming the water dystopias in South Asia.

Author : Davis, R.,Hirji, R.
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789290908692

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Review of water and climate change policies in South Asia. by Davis, R.,Hirji, R. Pdf

Author : Cheryl Colopy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199845019

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Dirty, Sacred Rivers by Cheryl Colopy Pdf

One journalist's account of her 7-year journey through the Ganges river basin to explore the revered, yet highly polluted, rivers of South Asia.

Author : Sumana Bandyopadhyay,Habibullah Magsi,Sucharita Sen,Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030352370

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Water Management in South Asia by Sumana Bandyopadhyay,Habibullah Magsi,Sucharita Sen,Tomaz Ponce Dentinho Pdf

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.

Author : Gareth Price
Publisher : Chatham House (Formerly Riia)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1784130125

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Attitudes to Water in South Asia by Gareth Price Pdf

Drawing on interviews with hundreds of policymakers and key stakeholders in five countries in South Asia, this report assesses current thinking toward domestic water management and transboundary water issues and suggests strategies that could help to reframe water as a shared resource rather than a potential source of conflict.

Author : B. Anjan Kumar Prusty,Rachna Chandra,P. A. Azeez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788132237150

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Wetland Science by B. Anjan Kumar Prusty,Rachna Chandra,P. A. Azeez Pdf

This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline ‘wetland science’ and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia. The book presents 30 chapters by an international mix of experts in the field, who highlight and discuss diverse issues concerning wetlands in South Asia as case studies. The chapters are divided into different themes that represent broad issues of concern in a systematic manner keeping in mind students, researchers and general readers at large. The book introduces readers to the basics and theory of wetland science, supplemented by case studies and examples from the region. It also offers a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in allied fields such as environmental studies, limnology, wildlife biology, aquatic biology, marine biology, and landscape ecology. To date the interdisciplinary field ‘wetland science’ is still rarely treated as a distinct discipline in its own right. Further, courses on wetland science aren’t taught at any of the world’s most prestigious universities; instead, the topics falling under this discipline are generally handled under the disciplines ‘ecology’ or under the extremely broad heading of ‘environmental studies’. It is high time that ‘Wetland Science’ be acknowledged as an interdisciplinary sub-discipline, which calls for an attempt to consolidate its various subtopics and present them comprehensively. Thus, this book also serves as a reference base on wetlands and facilitates further discussions on specific issues involved in safeguarding a sustainable future for the wetland habitats of this region.

Author : Anjal Prakash,Saravanan V S,Jayati Chourey
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353882028

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Interlacing Water and Human Health by Anjal Prakash,Saravanan V S,Jayati Chourey Pdf

An increasing recognition of the need to understand the complex systems in the health sector has raised the demand for an examination of water and health from a systemic perspective. Analyzing the various discourses on the subject, the volume revolves around this central question: What are the linkages between water and health in South Asia? The interlacing of water and health exists wherever human health is adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by changes in the quality and quantity of water. These adverse effects are linked with poverty, environment, and infrastructure in the overall socio-political and economic-developmental context. The book looks at the linkage between water and health in an integrated manner, and is not based on the ′absence of disease′ syndrome. The curative, preventive, and adaptive aspects of the public-health problem have also been delved into. Among other areas, the articles deal with water and health with reference to water supply, sanitation, water pollution, natural disasters, urbanization, and industrialization. Armed with the latest research and case studies from South Asia, the book calls for a comprehensive understanding and better integration of water and health issues in the region. Interlacing Water and Human Health is the third volume in the Water in South Asia Series published by SAGE and South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs).

Author : Venkatesh Dutta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000408270

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Water Conflicts and Resistance by Venkatesh Dutta Pdf

This book presents a systematic study of transboundary, regional and local water conflicts and resistance across several river basins in South Asia. Addressing hydro-socio-economic aspects in competing water sharing and transfer agreements, as well as conflicting regimes of legal plurality, property rights and policy implementation, it discusses themes such as rights over land and natural resources; resettlement of dam-displaced people; urban–rural conflicts over water allocation; peri-urbanisation, land use conflicts and water security; tradeoffs and constraints in restoration of ecological flows in rivers; resilience against water conflicts in a river basin; and irrigation projects and sustainability of water resources. Bringing together experts, professionals, lawyers, government and the civil society, the volume analyses water conflicts at local, regional and transboundary scales; reviews current debates with case studies; and outlines emerging challenges in water policy, law, governance and institutions in South Asia. It also offers alternative tools and frameworks of water sharing mechanisms, conflict resolution, dialogue, and models of cooperation and collaboration for key stakeholders towards possible solutions for effective, equitable and strategic water management. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, environment studies, water studies, public policy, political science, international relations, conflict resolution, political economy, economics, sociology and social anthropology, environmental law, governance and South Asian studies. It will also benefit practitioners, water policy thinktanks and associations, policymakers, diplomats and NGOs.

Author : Sylvester Chibueze Izah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819716586

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Biomonitoring of Pollutants in the Global South by Sylvester Chibueze Izah Pdf

Author : Lacombe, Guillaume,Chinnasamy, Pennan,Nicol, Alan
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789290908661

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Review of climate change science, knowledge and impacts on water resources in South Asia by Lacombe, Guillaume,Chinnasamy, Pennan,Nicol, Alan Pdf

Author : Pravat Kumar Shit,Dilip Kumar Datta,Biswajit Bera,Aznarul Islam,Partha Pratim Adhikary
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323952835

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Spatial Modeling of Environmental Pollution and Ecological Risk by Pravat Kumar Shit,Dilip Kumar Datta,Biswajit Bera,Aznarul Islam,Partha Pratim Adhikary Pdf

Spatial Modeling of Environmental Pollution and Ecological Risk provides valuable information and insights for researchers, students and professionals in geography, hydrology, sedimentology, soil science, agriculture, engineering and GIS as they face increasingly complex challenges around development strategies for a sustainable society. Written by the world’s leading researchers in their field, each article will begin with a short introductory essay that includes an overview of the sections' papers. Individual chapters focus on the core themes of research and knowledge and some topics that have received lesser attention. Each chapter will review the current understanding of knowledge regarding the present study and scope and consider where future efforts should be directed. Discusses issues at the forefront of present research in environmental science, bioscience, ecology, pedogeomorphology, landscape, geoscience, forestry, hydrology and GIS Explores state-of-art techniques based on methodological and modeling in modern Deep learning and Machine learning geospatial techniques through case studies Describes novel control strategies, remediation and eco-restoration, and conservation techniques for sustainable development

Author : M. Anwar Hossen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134996896

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Water Policy and Governance in South Asia by M. Anwar Hossen Pdf

Dr. Hossen carried out an exceptional program of research in Bangladesh which focused on water governance in relation to human rights, international water law and environmental sustainability. His major argument is that eco-agricultural system encounters major disruptions due to a number of factors including regional hydropolitics and neoliberal and highly centralized approaches to water resource management that follow the principles of "ecocracy." In this context, Dr. Hossen explores three major questions: (i) How can local ecological knowledge be incorporated into national water policy? (ii) What strategies and reforms are required at the international watershed governance level? and (iii) How can human rights principles, including the principle of water as a human right, be used to formulate more effective water policy and governance principles? To answer these questions, Dr. Hossen explores the effects of regional hydropolitics on water management, focusing on three large engineering projects, the Farakka Barrage built by India on the Ganges River, and the Ganges-Kobodak (GK) and Gorai River Restoration (GRR) Projects in Bangladesh. This analysis is based on his research into local knowledge and farming practices during a year of fieldwork in 2011-12, focus group discussions, in-depth case studies and social survey methods. In addition to this primary data, he looks at extensive secondary documents from the government of Bangladesh pertaining to water management, agricultural modernization and institutional structures. The arguments herein are applicable particularly to the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin countries in South Asia but also to the river basins of other parts of the world.