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Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins: Realities and Challenges
Contributor(s): Mukherji, Aditi (Editor), Villholth, Karen G. (Editor), Sharma, Bharat R. (Editor)
ISBN: 1138113921     ISBN-13: 9781138113923
Publisher: CRC Press
OUR PRICE:   $92.14  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Real Estate - General
- Technology & Engineering | Environmental - Water Supply
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
Dewey: 333.913
Series: Iah - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.7" W x 9.4" (1.27 lbs) 348 pages
 
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One of the key features of agricultural development in the last five decades has been intensive groundwater use in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh) and in the Yellow River Basin (China). Groundwater irrigates almost 60% of the net irrigated area in South Asia and 70% in the north China plains. Groundwater use for agriculture is still increasing. Despite the growing significance of groundwater to agricultural growth, food security and rural livelihoods globally, and at the same time significant signs of limitations and constraints for further use, knowledge of the subject has remained limited. The subject includes the wider issues of socioeconomic impacts, political economy, groundwater institutions, access to other resources like energy and land, approaches to resource governance and management and specifically integrating evidence-based science into management decisions.

This book addresses these information shortfalls and provides a consolidated and cross-disciplinary source of information and documentation of realities and challenges of contemporary agricultural groundwater use and management in poverty-prone areas of Asia. It draws on primary data collected in the course of an innovative, cross-coordinated and inter-disciplinary fieldwork programme, covering those regions in Asia that significantly depend on groundwater for agricultural livelihoods. This work is essential reading for hydrogeologists, socio-economists, agro-economists and water managers working in poor countries. Donors and implementers, both government and NGO, will also learn from the experiences described in this book.