Water Ecosystems and Society: A Confluence of Disciplines
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Water, Ecosystems and Society: A Confluence of Disciplines identifies water management as a confluence of disciplines and engages with the needs and challenges of productive water management in India. Such an engagement is path-breaking in terms of its conceptualization, since water management in India has traditionally been associated with heavy engineering, which tries to increase the quantity of water to cater to increasing demands by human settlements, irrigation and industry needs.
The author identifies research activities to initiate effective water management and then goes on to address the issues in detail with relation to their ecological and socio-economic implications. As a result, floods, sustainability of river link projects and the economic viability of water systems are analyzed with regard to their ecological dimensions. He also focuses on the need to recognize ecosystem services provided by floods as well as the necessity of environmental flows in such a system.
The book reviews the usefulness of economic valuation of water systems in terms of their consumptive use and the ecosystem services provided by them. In this way, the work deals with emerging areas of research-by connecting economics and water management. It also analyzes the proposed river link project of India in the light of the emerging economic and ecological aspects of water management, and thereby provides a new approach to the assessment and appraisal of large water projects. Thus the book engages with the ecological and socio-economical dimensions of different areas of water management, identifies lacunae in the filed and suggests fresh perspectives to address them constructively.
Bandyopadhyay, J.: -
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay is the Head of the Centre for Development and Environment Policy at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). After completing his doctorate in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, he turned his professional attention towards interdisciplinary studies of science and public policy with special interest in sustainable development policy. He has worked at reputed institutions such as Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (1978-87), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu (1987-93) and International Academy of Environment, Geneva (1993-97) where he was appointed Director of Research.
His work in the past 25 years has been guided by the objective of generating transdisciplinary public interest knowledge on critical issues related to sustainable development and equity. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the Responses Working Group in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the area of climate change and water. He is currently the President of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (Delhi) and the South Asian Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resource Studies (Hyderabad) and a member of the Board of the International Society for Ecological Economics.
Professor Bandyopadhyay has published more than 100 research papers, books and articles. His latest publications include Integrated Water Systems Management in South Asia: A Framework for Research CDEP Occasional Paper 09 (Kolkata: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 2006); Biodiversity and Quality of Life (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2005); Moving the Mountains Up in the Global Environmental Agenda CDEP Occasional Paper 03 (Kolkata: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 2004); and a chapter on 'Freshwater Ecosystems Services' in the Report of the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing: Policy Responses (New York: Island Press, 2005).
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