The Ganges River Basin : status and challenges in water, environment and livelihoods (Record no. 45084)
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| fixed length control field | 02956nam a2200217 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781138900325 (hbk) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781138900356 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 333.7309541 |
| Item number | GAN |
| 245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Ganges River Basin : status and challenges in water, environment and livelihoods |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | edited by Luna Bharati, Bharat R. Sharma and Vladimir Smakhtin. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London : |
| Name of publisher | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, |
| Year of publication | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxxiv, 327 pages ; |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Earthscan/IWMI series on major river basins of the world |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Surface water resources / Sharad Kumar Jain, Marc A. Jeuland, Luna Bharati and Zahirul Haque Khan -- Groundwater resources / Dipankar Saha, Anwar Zahid, Surendra Raj Shreshtha and Paul Pavelic -- Climate change and the Ganges Basin / Marc A. Jeuland -- Managing variability : floods and droughts / Giriraj Amarnath, A.K.M. Saiful Islam and M.S. Shrestha -- Agriculture and water use : implications for sustainable intensification / Bharat Sharma, Alok K. Sikka, Ram Pratap Sah and Xueliang Cai -- Hydropower : the status and challenges / Dwarika N. Dhungel, Santa Bahadur Pun, Sonali Mittra and M. Monirul Qader Mirza -- Water-food-energy nexus : challenges and opportunities / Christopher A. Scott, Arica Crootof, Bhuwan Thapa and Rashmi Kiran Shreshtha -- Ganges water machine : one solution to basin water problems? / Upali A. Amarasinghe and Lal Mutuwatte -- Environmental flows : keeping the basin rivers alive / Vladimir Smakhtin and Luna Bharati -- Ecosystem services and conservation assessment of freshwater biodiversity / Asghar Nawab, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, Paul M. Thompson and Subodh Sharma -- Arsenic in the eastern Ganges basin : extent and impact on food chain and human health / Rajmohan Natarajan, Dipankar Chakraborti and Sanmugam Prathapar -- Ganges water quality : dirty past, promising future / Javier Mateo-Sagasta and Vinod Tare -- Institutions and policies governing water resources management / M. Dinesh Kumar, Dwarika N. Dhungel, M. Monirul Qader Mirza and Diana Suhardiman -- Poverty, inequalities and vulnerability of the rural poor / Upali A. Amarasinghe, Fraser Sugden and Floriane Clement -- Gender, agricultural investment and productivity in an era of out-migration / Fraser Sugden, Panchali Saikia, Niki Maskey-Amatya and Paras Pokhrel -- Can there be progress on transboundary water cooperation in the Ganges? / Mark Giordano, Dipak Gyawali, Ainun Nishat and Uttam Kumar Sinha -- Basin water challenges : an agenda for accelerated reform / Tushaar Shah, Prachanda Pradhan and Golam Rasul. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. This book is unique in presenting a comprehensive inter-disciplinary overview of the key issues and challenges facing the region. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Water resources development |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Water-supply |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bharati, Luna, |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sharma, B. R. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smakhtin, Vladimir, |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Reference Books |
| Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Reference | Main Library | Main Library | Reference | 17/07/2023 | Donation | 20000.00 | 333.7309541 GAN | 016452 | Reference Books |
| Reference | Main Library | Main Library | Reference | 17/07/2023 | Donation | 20000.00 | 333.7309541 GAN | 016453 | Reference Books |