[PDF] Indus River Basin eBook

Author : Sadiq I. Khan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2019-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 012812783X

GET BOOK

Indus River Basin: Water Security and Sustainability provides a comprehensive treatment of water-related issues within the Indus River basin. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, hence this book serves as a single, holistic source covering the whole region, not just a single country. Many of the challenges faced by this region are trans-boundary issues, especially within the context of climate change and water scarcity. Topics covered include extreme engineering and water resource management (one of the largest irrigation systems in dry to semi-desert conditions), social sciences (population dynamics linked to water resources) and political sciences. As such, this book is relevant and important to all researchers interested in these issues. Includes detailed chapters provided by specialists in each different field as compiled by well experienced editors Presents work from related fields across the Indus basin and makes them easily accessible on one single place Shows the Indus River as a type case and shares issues relevant to other locations across the world

Author : David Gilmartin
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520355539

GET BOOK

"The book is a history of the political and environmental transformation of the Indus basin as a result of the modern construction of the world's largest, integrated irrigation system. Begun under British colonial rule in the 19th century, this transformation continued after the region was divided between two new states, India and Pakistan, in 1947. Massive irrigation works have turned an arid region into one of dense agricultural population, but its political legacies continue to shape the politics and statecraft of the region"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Daniel Haines
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 2017
Category : India
ISBN : 9781849047166

GET BOOK

Daniel Haines uncovers the history of one of the most important factors in relations between these two South Asian powers -- water

Author : Zafar Adeel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319328430

GET BOOK

This volume calls upon over a dozen Indus observers to imagine a scenario for the Indus basin in which transboundary cooperation over water resources overcomes the insecurity arising from water dependence and scarcity. From diverse perspectives, its essays examine the potential benefits to be gained from revisiting the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, as well as from mounting joint efforts to increase water supply, to combat climate change, to develop hydroelectric power, and to improve water management. The Indus basin is shared by four countries (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). The basin’s significance stems in part simply from the importance of these countries, three of them among the planet’s most populous states, one of them boasting the world’s second largest economy, and three of them members of the exclusive nuclear weapons club. However, the basin’s significance stems also from the great importance of the Indus waters themselves – due especially to the region’s massive dependence on irrigated agriculture as well as to the menace of climate change and advancing water scarcity. The “Industan” this volume imagines is a definite departure from business as usual responses to the Indus basin’s emerging fresh water crisis. The objective is to kindle serious discussion of the cooperation needed to confront what many water experts believe is developing into one of the planet’s most gravely threatened river basins. It is thus both assessment of the current state of play in regard to water security in the Indus basin and recommendation about where to go from here.

Author : Winston H. Yu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821398741

GET BOOK

This study, Indus basin of Pakistan: the impacts of climate risks on water and agriculture was undertaken at a pivotal time in the region. The weak summer monsoon in 2009 created drought conditions throughout the country. This followed an already tenuous situation for many rural households faced with high fuel and fertilizer costs and the impacts of rising global food prices. Then catastrophic monsoon flooding in 2010 affected over 20 million people, devastating their housing, infrastructure, and crops. Damages from this single flood event were estimated at US dollar 10 billion, half of which were losses in the agriculture sector. Notwithstanding the debate as to whether these observed extremes are evidence of climate change, an investigation is needed regarding the extent to which the country is resilient to these shocks. It is thus timely, if not critical, to focus on climate risks for water, agriculture, and food security in the Indus basin of Pakistan.

Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393063226

GET BOOK

“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.

Author : Daniel Haines
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0143439618

GET BOOK

The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India–Pakistan cooperation, which had a critical influence on state-making in both countries. Indus Divided reveals the importance of the Indus Basin river system, and thus control over it, for Indian and Pakistani claims to sovereignty after South Asia’s partition in 1947. Based on new research in India, Pakistan, the United States and the United Kingdom, this book places the Indus dispute, for the first time, in the context of decolonization and Cold War–era development politics.

Author : Shane Mountjoy
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Indus River Valley
ISBN : 1438120036

GET BOOK

Discusses the Indus River, which is the chief river of Pakistan.

Author : Ijaz Hussain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199403547

GET BOOK

The book deals with the genesis of the Indus Waters Treaty dispute, the World Bank's role in the settlement, the Wullar Barrage, Salal, Baglihar, and Kishenganga Dams disputes, the impact of climate change on the Treaty, India's current discontentment with the Treaty, and its treatment of Nepal and Bangladesh on the water issue.

Author : Winston Yu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082139875X

GET BOOK

This study assesses the impacts of climate risks and development alternatives on water and agriculture in the Indus basin of Pakistan. It analyzes inter-relationships among the climate, water, and agriculture sectors and provides a systems modeling framework for these purposes.