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  • Climate Change Governance and Adaptation

    Case Studies from South Asia

    Edited by Anamika Barua, Vishal Narain, Sumit Vij ...
    Climate change adaptation in South Asia is redefining the roles of different actors in the governance processes. The existing governance lack capacity, knowledge, and leadership skills to manage the uncertainties and challenges posed by climate change. This book aims to explain how the governance of climate change adaptation and mitigation is being shaped in the region and how climate change is ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Globalization of Water Governance in South Asia

    Edited by Vishal Narain, Chanda Gurung Goodrich, Jayati Chourey, Anjal Prakash ...
    Globalization has significantly redefined the nature of governance in the water sector. Non-state actors—multilateral and transnational donor agencies and corporations, non-government organizations, markets, and civil society at large—are assuming a bigger role in public policy-making for water resource management. New discourses on neoliberalism, integrated water resource management (IWRM), ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Indian Water Policy at the Crossroads: Resources, Technology and Reforms

    Edited by Vishal Narain, Annasamy Narayanamoorthy ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book reviews and analyzes emerging challenges in water policy, governance and institutions in India. Recent times have seen the contours of water policy shaped by new discourses and narratives; there has been a pluralization of the state and a changing balance of power among the actors who influence the formulation of water policy. Discourses on gender mainstreaming and Integrated Water ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia

    Flows across Boundaries

    Edited by Vishal Narain, Dik Roth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and social-environmental changes, including ... Read more

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    Adapting to a Changing World

    Edited by Richard Thwaites, Robert Fisher, Mohan Poudel ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is widespread in Nepal, with a very high proportion of the rural population involved, and is widely recognized as one of the most successful examples of community forestry in Asia. Through a combination of literature reviews and original research, this volume ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Leadership for Disaster Resilience

    Lessons from India

    by Jacquleen Joseph, Suchita Awasthi, Zubin R. Mulla ...
    This book comprehensively conceptualises disaster resilience leadership within the macro context of a risk society. Leadership for disaster resilience has gained prominence in the face of global environmental change, and the need for collaboration, integration, and synergy in addressing this crisis is starker than ever. Drawing on case studies from across India, the volume focuses on leaderships ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Urbanization in India

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Jenia Mukherjee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post‐2015 development agenda of the United Nations and India's official launching of the 'smart city' agenda. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and Community Resilience

    Insights from South Asia

    Edited by A. K. Enamul Haque, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Mani Nepal, Md Rumi Shammin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented in South Asian countries. The narrative style of writing in this volume makes it accessible to a diverse audience from academics and researchers to practitioners in various governmental, non-governmental and international agencies. At a time when climate change ... Read more

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  • Resource Management, Sustainable Development and Governance

    Indian and International Perspectives

    Edited by Baleshwar Thakur, Rajiv R. Thakur, Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Rajesh K. Abhay ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines the relationship between natural resource management, sustainable development, and governance with case studies from India and other places covering disaster risk reduction, conflict resolution, capacity building, climate change adaptation and resilience, citizen engagement and ecological conservation. Though the studies focus mostly on cases in India, the volume discusses how ... Read more

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  • Informing Water Policies in South Asia

    Edited by Anjal Prakash, Chanda Gurung Goodrich, Sreoshi Singh ...
    This book analyzes water policies in South Asia from the perspective of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). It seeks to address the problems of water scarcity, conflict and pollution resulting from the gross mismanagement and over-exploitation of this finite resource. Highlighting the need for IWRM in mitigating abuse and ensuring sustainable use, it discusses issues relating to ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Women and Disasters in South Asia

    Survival, security and development

    Edited by Swarna Rajagopalan, Linda Racioppi ...
    South Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the region.Women and men experience disaster differently, and their needs in the aftermath of disaster ... Read more

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  • Environment, Development and Sustainability in India: Perspectives, Issues and Alternatives

    Edited by Manish K. Verma ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society. It examines varied perspectives and issues of development related to environmental destruction and sustainability challenges. By examining the recent trends of development and recording the dilemmas which are creating ecological imbalances, it ... Read more

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