Author: Neha DurgaPublisher: IWMI
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Water Policy Research HIGHLIGHT
Author: Neha DurgaIWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlights
Author: Tushaar ShahDrought proofing strategies by farmers in southern India
Author: Kuppannan, PalanisamiPublisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Confronting the Nation's Water Problems
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030916589X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In order to confront the increasingly severe water problems faced by all parts of the country, the United States needs to make a new commitment to research on water resources. A new mechanism is needed to coordinate water research currently fragmented among nearly 20 federal agencies. Given the competition for water among farmers, communities, aquatic ecosystems and other users-as well as emerging challenges such as climate change and the threat of waterborne diseases-Confronting the Nation's Water Problems concludes that an additional $70 million in federal funding should go annually to water research. Funding should go specifically to the areas of water demand and use, water supply augmentation, and other institutional research topics. The book notes that overall federal funding for water research has been stagnant in real terms for the past 30 years and that the portion dedicated to research on water use and social science topics has declined considerably.
Water Policy Science and Politics
Author: M. Dinesh KumarPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128149043
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Water Policy Science and Politics: An Indian Perspective presents the importance of politics and science working together in policymaking in the water sector. Many countries around the developed and developing world, including India, are experiencing major water scarcity problems that will undoubtedly increase with the impacts of climate change. This book discusses specific topics in India's water, agriculture and energy sectors, focusing on scientific aspects, academic and political discourse, and policy issues. The author presents cases from the interrelated sectors of water resources, supplies, sanitation, and energy and climate, including controversial topics that illustrate how science and politics can work together. - Challenges the linear and conventional approaches to water management and water policymaking in India that are also applicable in developing countries across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa - Presents best practice ideas and methods that help science and politics work together - Highlights a key gap of communication between science and policy in water research, with solutions on how this can be addressed
Centre Commissioned External Review (CCER) of the IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program
Author: Jacob J. Burke, (FAO)Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 9290905956
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
/ agricultural research / groundwater management / irrigation management / institutional development / social aspects / non-governmental organizations / water policy / project appraisal / evaluation / India
Reforming Institutions in Water Resource Management
Author: Lin CrasePublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849770166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Resolving these problems is crucial for the future.
Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India
Author: Madhusudan BhattaraiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811062625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world’s largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Launched by the Indian government, the programme covers entire rural area of the country. The book presents various micro-level analyses of the programme and its heterogeneous impacts at different scales, almost a decade after its implementation. While there are some doubts over the future of the scheme as well as its magnitude, nature and content, the central government appears committed to it, as a ‘convergence scheme’ of various other welfare and rural development programmes being implemented at both national and state level. The book discusses the outcomes of the programme and offers critical insights into the lessons learnt, not only in the context of India, but also for similar schemes in countries in South and South-East Asia as well as in Africa, and Latin America. Adopting inter-disciplinary perspectives in analysing these issues, this unique book uses a judicious mix of methods---integrating quantitative and qualitative tools---and will be an invaluable resource for analysts, NGOs, policymakers and academics alike.
Pro-poor farm power policy for West Bengal - II
Author: Shah, ManishaPublisher: IWMI
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
From Catchment Management to Managing River Basins
Author: M. Dinesh KumarPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128148527
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
From Catchment Management to Managing River Basins: Science, Technology Choices, Institutions and Policy synthesizes key scientific facts crucial for catchment assessment, planning and river basin water accounting. The book presents extensive reviews of international literature on catchment hydrology, forest hydrology and other hydrological processes, such as groundwater-surface water interactions. It discusses not only the science of catchment assessment and planning, but also the catchment planning process. It documents several of the positive international experiences with integrated catchment management and integrated basin management, distilling key learnings. Case studies from India and other parts of South Asia are also included, along with new pilot studies. Finally, the book discusses the theoretical and operational aspects of integrated catchment management and integrated water management in river basins using international best practices and case studies. - Discusses the theoretical nuances of scale effects in hydrology and land-use hydrology interactions - Focuses on managing water in a situation in which water has become scarce - Provides a theoretical discussion on water accounting procedures that is followed by an application of the methodology and tools in real-life case studies in two river basins of India - Presents applications of the concept of integrated water resources management for developing a WRM plan for an Indian river basin