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Living rivers, dying rivers / edited by Ramaswamy R. Iyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rivers--India.
- Rivers.
- Environmental conditions.
- Stream ecology.
- India.
- Stream ecology--India.
- India--Environmental conditions.
- Water--Pollution--India.
- Water.
- Water--Pollution.
- Environmental law--India.
- Environmental law.
- Ecology.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- The Yamuna : living or dying? / Brij Gopal
- The Yamuna : an extreme case / Manoj Misra
- The Ganga : a lament and a plea / Rama Rauta
- The Ganga : a trickle of hope / Vinod Tare, Gautam Roy
- The Ganga : pollution abatement strategies : a review of GAP and emerging institutional models / N.C. Narayanan
- The Indus system : changing environment in the Jhelum Basin / Shakil A. Romshoo
- The Brahmaputra and other rivers of the North-East / Chandan Mahanta, Lalit Saikia
- Embanking rivers : the Bagmati in Bihar / Dinesh Kumar Mishra
- The rivers of West Bengal : dying, living / Kalyan Rudra
- The Mahanadi : a great river in distress / Ranjan Kishor Panda
- River as a feminine presence : Godavari in Andhra Pradesh / R. Umamaheshwari
- In search of a living river : a journey across Tamil Nadu / S. Janakarajan
- Between the living and the dying : rivers of Kerala / Latha Anantha
- Karnataka : Cauvery in death throes / Leo F. Saldanha, Bhargavi S. Rao
- Living and dying rivers of the Western Ghats / Pandurang Hegde
- Endangering a heritage : rivers of Maharashtra / Parineeta Dandekar
- The Narmada and other rivers of Gujarat / Himanshu Thakkar
- Caring for our rivers : an overview / Paritosh C. Tyagi
- A law to protect rivers / Manoj Misra
- What hydroelectric projects do to rivers / Ravi Chopra
- Killing a river : failure of regulation / Kelly D. Alley
- Towards a more comprehensive understanding of rivers / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
- Afterword / Ramaswamy R. Iyer
- Annexe to Afterword.
- Notes:
- Contributed articles.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199456222
- 0199456224
- OCLC:
- 920463766
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