A4
Hard-cover
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2012
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9788171889709
INR 795
We human beings like to make sense of the world by constructing narratives to explain and interpret events to ourselves and to others. In the last decade, we have constructed many narratives on the growing imbalance between freshwater supply, consumption and population. Yet the ecological, social and economic benefits that freshwater systems provide and the trade-off between consumptive and on-stream benefits remain contested. The collection of narratives in this volume, which go deeper into the issue from both a developed and developing country perspective, call for a global perspective on sustainable use of water with an exclusive emphasis on better management of shared river basins and individual watersheds.
Lydia Powell, Senior Fellow & Head, Centre for Resources Management, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), works on policy issues on energy, water and climate change.
Sonali Mittra, Research Assistant, Centre for Resources Management, ORF, is an enthusiastic young researcher with a deep interest in policy research associated with water development and sustainability.
Paulette Bynoe is currently spending a sabbatical at the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad.
Rohan D'Souza is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Shailaja Fennel is Director of Research at Cambridge Central Asia Forum and a University Lecturer in Development Studies, and a Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.
Maaz Gardezi is currently a Research Associate at the Development Policy Research Centre (DPRC) at Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Uwe Hoering is a freelance journalist and policy analyst working on a wide range of development and environment issues.
A.K. Jain, an agricultural engineer, is working as Head, Department of Soil & Water Engineering at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab).
Michael Kugelman is the South Asia associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC) where he is responsible for research, programming and publications on South Asia.
Yu Li is a Director (South Asia) of the Asia-Africa Development Research Institute (Development Research Centre) of the State Council, People's Republic of China.
N. Shantha Mohan is currently anchor of the water programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), IISc Campus, Bangalore.
Sailen Routray teaches at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore. His research interests lie at the intersections of anthropology of the everyday state and of development with a thematic focus on the water sector.
Muhammad Azeem Ali Shah is currently a doc-toral candidate at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is also a researcher on Institutions and Policy Analysis at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Pakistan.
Shawahiq Siddiqui is an Environmental Lawyer and partner at Indian Environment Law Offices, a law firm based in New Delhi specialising in environmental law.
Inderjeet Singh is a Professor of Economics at Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab), India.
Shah Bakht Sohail is law graduate from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan, with special interest in the alternative means to dispute resolution and environmental law.