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Water Security in India: Hope, Despair, and the Challenges of Human Development de Dr. Vandana Asthana

Water Security in India: Hope, Despair, and the Challenges of Human Development

Autor Dr. Vandana Asthana, Dr. A. C. Shukla
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 dec 2014
Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India's life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441179364
ISBN-10: 1441179364
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Discusses water as the key factor to create a security community across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

Notă biografică

Vandana Asthana, a Professor of Government, Eastern Washington University, USA, writes and researches the human and developmental challenges of water and environmental security in South Asia with a special focus on India. Dr. A.C.Shukla, former member and Chartered biologist of Institute of Biology, London, UK is a well-known, widely traveled speaker, researcher and author of several books and articles on environment, policy and security.

Cuprins

PrefacePart IChapter 1: Introducing the concept: Water securityChapter 2: Water resources of IndiaPart IIChapter 3: Agriculture and irrigation development in IndiaChapter 4: Industrialization, urbanization and population growthChapter 5: Vulnerability of climate changeChapter 6: Policy and institutional driversPart III Chapter 7: Privatization of waterChapter 8: Intrastate water disputesChapter 9: Water security in India's neighborhoodChapter 10: Water vision and shifts in management practicesChapter 11: Water security: Hope and despairBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

An impressive addition to the growing body of literature reexamining the definition of "security" in the 21st century. Further distinguishing this work is the authors' thoughtful examination of water security as it applies to India-making this one of the first studies to do so.
This book affords an important, well-researched case study on the problem of freshwater sustainability. The authors tackle the complex issue of how human security is actually a tightly-interconnected array of factors including governance; particularly state capacity for regulating water supply and quality, as well as private water rights, water markets, and trans-boundary institutions which cooperate over water allocation. By rejecting that narrow definition of human security as the avoidance, say, of basin-wide conflicts that threaten peacekeeping, Asthana and Shukla are able to show how this important concept actually require institutions charged with managing vital resources such as water to: provide for basic human needs; ensure the renewability of a resource; and, reduce vulnerability to climate and other environmental hazards which threaten its vigor. They further argue that human security for water is achieved by enabling the political and economic institutions which manage these resources to become more resilient through reforms that make them more representative as well as responsive to popular demands and socially-just outcomes. Students of water policy everywhere will immensely benefit from this work - not just scholars focused on South Asia."
[Water Security in India] makes a compelling and data-driven case for waking up to the alarming realities of water challenges faced by the Indian subcontinent . . . For anybody interested in water security, its intricate links with other forms of security and the threats water stress poses to the South Asian region in general . . . this book is a must read!
Water more then anything else will play a major role in either preserving or destroying life in the 21st century. With climate change and global warming threatening the planet, a focused study like this is an eye-opener, which we cannot choose to ignore