Keywords:
Hydrogeology--Indus River Region.
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Hydrogeology--Ganges River Region (India and Bangladesh).
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Hydrogeology--China--Yellow River Region.
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Groundwater--Indus River Region--Management.
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Groundwater--Ganges River Region (India and Bangladesh)--Management.
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Groundwater--China--Yellow River Region--Management.
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Crops--Water requirements--Indus River Region.
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Crops--Water requirements--Ganges River Region (India and Bangladesh).
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Crops--Water requirements--China--Yellow River Region.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book provides a consolidated and cross-disciplinary source of information and contemporary thinking on agricultural groundwater use and management in poverty-prone areas of Asia. The editors and contributors represent a wide range of academic disciplines from both the physical and social sciences. Most of the chapters in this book rely heavily on primary data collected by the authors in the course of an innovative, cross-coordinated and inter-disciplinary fieldwork exercise, covering areas across the regions that significantly depend on groundwater for agricultural livelihoods.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (350 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781135220105
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1449751
DDC:
333.91/3095
Language:
English
Note:
Front cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- Introduction -- Glossary of non-English words -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The role of groundwater in agriculture, livelihoods, and rural povery alleviation in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River basins: A review -- CHAPTER 2. Towards better management of groundwater resources-lessons from an integrated capacity building project in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River basins -- CHAPTER 3. A comparative analysis of the hydrogeology of the Indus-Gangetic and Yellow River basins -- Region specific case studies -- CHAPTER 4. Groundwater resource issues and the socio-economic implications of groundwater use: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan -- CHAPTER 5. Groundwater resources and the impact of groundwater sharing institutions: Insights from Indian Punjab -- CHAPTER 6. Groundwater resource conditions, socio-economic impacts and policy-institutional options: A case study of Vaishali District of Bihar, India -- CHAPTER 7. Groundwater resource conditions and groundwater sharing institutions: Evidence from eastern Indo-Gangetic basin, India -- CHAPTER 8. The impact of shallow tubewells on irrigation water availability, access, crop productivity and farmers' income in the lower Gangetic Plain of Bangladesh -- CHAPTER 9. Reaching the poor: Effectiveness of the current shallow tubewell policy in Nepal -- CHAPTER 10. Agricultural groundwater issues in North China: A case study from Zhengzhou Municipal Area -- CHAPTER 11. Groundwater use and its management: Polcy and institutional options in rural areas on North China -- Thematic issues on groundwater irrigation -- CHAPTER 12. Anthropological perspectives on groundwater irrigation: Ethnographic evidence from a village in Bist Doab, Punjab.
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CHAPTER 13. Social regulation of groundwater and its relevance to the existing regulatory framework in Andhra Pradesh, India -- CHAPTER 14. Using the living wisdon of well drillers to construct digital groundwater data bases across Indo-Gangetic basin -- CHAPTER 15. Crop per volume of diesel? The energy-squeeze on India's small-holder irrigation -- CHAPTER 16. Managing the energy-irrigation nexus in West Bengal, India -- CHAPTER 17. Groundwater markets in the North China Plain: Impact on irrigation water use, crop yields and farmer income -- Subject index -- Author index -- SERIES IAH-Selected Papers -- Back cover.
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