Water and the Environmental History of Modern India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19928111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Velayutham Saravanan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Water and the Environmental History of Modern India (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781350130852 |
| OpenAlex | W3003248573 |
| Open Library | OL28060737M |
| ISBN | 9781350130852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demands for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the
Art · Economic history · Environmental ethics · Environmental history · Geography · Perspective (graphical) · Visual arts · Water resource management · Environmental Science · History · Philosophy · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water resources management and optimization · 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 · Economics · Environmental policy · India · Water-supply
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |