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Water, Agriculture, and Sustainable Well-Being
Unai Pascual, Amita Shah, and Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
318 pages
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numerous figures and tables
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215x140mm
978-0-19-806175-5
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Hardback
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08 October 2009
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- Best practice methods for water resource management and agriculture
- Methodologies for policy framework
- Case studies from developed and third world nations
- Part of the important series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being
The book is a scholarly presentation on various issues pertaining to water resource management and agriculture practices. These include water contamination and health; trade-off between private benefits and sustainable development; and trade and environment. The volume makes a significant contribution to methodologies for assessing environmental and economic costs and identification of appropriate policy framework for abatement. A special feature of the book is that it seeks to integrate the issues of suitability across water use for human consumption and for agricultural production by exploring a broad conceptual framework. Case studies from a
number of countries such as India, Bangladesh, Belgium, and the European Union are covered.Readership: Economists and policymakers dealing with water and agriculture as well as researchers and teachers in the area of environment, management, and stakeholders
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Unai Pascual, Professor, University of Cambridge, Amita Shah, Dr., Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India, and Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta Contributors:
Amita Shah, Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India; Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Professor and Head of the Centre for Development and Environment Policy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India; Achiransu Acharyya, Project Research Personnel, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India; Unai Pascual, Lecturer, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK; David
Maddison, Reader in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK;; Zubaida Choudhury, PhD student, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK; Atanu Sarkar, is Sr. QA, Department of Policy Studies, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India; Peter Maille, PhD, Natural Economics in Division of Resource Management at West Virginia University, USA; Alan Collins, Associate Professor, West Virginia University, USA; Antonio Valero, Centre of Research for Energy Resources and Consumption (CIRCE), University of Zaragoza, Spain; Javier Uche, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Spain; Alicia Valero, Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Spain; Amaya Martínez, Centre of Research
for Energy Resources and Consumption (CIRCE), University of Zaragoza, Spain; José Manuel Naredo, Doctor of Economics, Graduate School of Statistics, Spain;; Joan Escriu, Catalan Water Agency, Spain; Amita Shah, Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Gujarat, India; Mrutyunjay Swain, Assistant Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, Toronto, Canada; Golam Rasul, Sr. Software Engineer, Intel Corporation, San Francisco; Rimjhim M. Aggarwal, Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA; M. A. Monayem Miah, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur, Bangladesh;; S.M. Fakhrul Islam, Chief Engineer, Bangladesh Shipping Corporation, Bangladesh; Erwin Wauters, Researcher, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Belgium;
Erik Mathijs, Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Foreword; Introduction;
1.: Valuing Health Damages from Arsenic Contamination;
2.: Trade-offs between Risk and Latency of Health Hazards from Groundwater Contamination;
3.: Sustainable Solutions to Arsenic Contamination of Ground Water;
4.: Farmers as Producers of Clean Water;
5.: The Fundamentals of Physical Hydronomics;
6.: Good Ecology is Good Economics;
7.: Agriculture and Environment;
8.: Assessing Drought Risk and Vulnerability;
9.: Exploring Policy Options for Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Land Use Systems in Hills and Mountains;
10.: Climbing the Pesticide Treadmill into the Debt Trap;
11.: Valuing Benefits of Soil Conservation in Hill Areas of Bangladesh;
12.: Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures in Belgium; Index.
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The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
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