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Living rivers, dying rivers / edited by Ramaswamy R. Iyer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: xxii, 475 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199456224 (hardback)
  • 9780199456222 (hardback)
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Contents:
CONTENTS: The Yamuna : living or dying? / Brij Gopal -- The Yamuna : an extreme case / Manoj Misra -- The Ganga : a lament and a plea / Rama Rauta -- The Ganga : a trickle of hope / Vinod Tare, Gautam Roy -- The Ganga : pollution abatement strategies : a review of GAP and emerging institutional models / N.C. Narayanan -- The Indus system : changing environment in the Jhelum Basin / Shakil A. Romshoo -- The Brahmaputra and other rivers of the North-East / Chandan Mahanta, Lalit Saikia -- Embanking rivers : the Bagmati in Bihar / Dinesh Kumar Mishra -- The rivers of West Bengal : dying, living / Kalyan Rudra -- The Mahanadi : a great river in distress / Ranjan Kishor Panda -- River as a feminine presence : Godavari in Andhra Pradesh / R. Umamaheshwari -- In search of a living river : a journey across Tamil Nadu / S. Janakarajan -- Between the living and the dying : rivers of Kerala / Latha Anantha -- Karnataka : Cauvery in death throes / Leo F. Saldanha, Bhargavi S. Rao -- Living and dying rivers of the Western Ghats / Pandurang Hegde -- Endangering a heritage : rivers of Maharashtra / Parineeta Dandekar -- The Narmada and other rivers of Gujarat / Himanshu Thakkar -- Caring for our rivers : an overview / Paritosh C. Tyagi - - A law to protect rivers / Manoj Misra -- What hydroelectric projects do to rivers / Ravi Chopra -- Killing a river : failure of regulation / Kelly D. Alley -- Towards a more comprehensive understanding of rivers / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- Afterword / Ramaswamy R. Iyer -- Annexe to Afterword.
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CONTENTS: The Yamuna : living or dying? / Brij Gopal -- The Yamuna : an extreme case / Manoj Misra -- The Ganga : a lament and a plea / Rama Rauta -- The Ganga : a trickle of hope / Vinod Tare, Gautam Roy -- The Ganga : pollution abatement strategies : a review of GAP and emerging institutional models / N.C. Narayanan -- The Indus system : changing environment in the Jhelum Basin / Shakil A. Romshoo -- The Brahmaputra and other rivers of the North-East / Chandan Mahanta, Lalit Saikia -- Embanking rivers : the Bagmati in Bihar / Dinesh Kumar Mishra -- The rivers of West Bengal : dying, living / Kalyan Rudra -- The Mahanadi : a great river in distress / Ranjan Kishor Panda -- River as a feminine presence : Godavari in Andhra Pradesh / R. Umamaheshwari -- In search of a living river : a journey across Tamil Nadu / S. Janakarajan -- Between the living and the dying : rivers of Kerala / Latha Anantha -- Karnataka : Cauvery in death throes / Leo F. Saldanha, Bhargavi S. Rao -- Living and dying rivers of the Western Ghats / Pandurang Hegde -- Endangering a heritage : rivers of Maharashtra / Parineeta Dandekar -- The Narmada and other rivers of Gujarat / Himanshu Thakkar -- Caring for our rivers : an overview / Paritosh C. Tyagi - - A law to protect rivers / Manoj Misra -- What hydroelectric projects do to rivers / Ravi Chopra -- Killing a river : failure of regulation / Kelly D. Alley -- Towards a more comprehensive understanding of rivers / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- Afterword / Ramaswamy R. Iyer -- Annexe to Afterword.

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