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Droughts and integrated water resource management in South Asia [electronic resource] : issues, alternatives, and futures / editors, Jasveen Jairath, Vishwa Ballabh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Water in South Asia.
- Water in South Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Droughts--South Asia.
- Droughts.
- Droughts--Social aspects--South Asia.
- Droughts--Government policy--South Asia.
- Water-supply--Management--South Asia.
- Water-supply.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Droughts have formed an inseparable part of South Asian history and culture, with. tragic consequences for a region that houses the greatest number of the world's. poor. However, this volume challenges the popular conception of drought, which. is presented as an absolute shortage-scarcity with respect to an implicit understanding. of the sufficiency of water. It highlights the fact that while available water. supplies may be a given quantum, droughts are differentially experienced, politically. inspired and socially constituted. It emphasises that the relative water scarcity. needs to be appre
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 93-5280-121-0
- 1-281-96385-2
- 9786611963859
- 81-321-0071-9
- OCLC:
- 437087345
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