Water management in rural South India and Sri Lanka
Emerging themes and critical issues
Water resources and their uses and management are - worldwide and on the regional scale of South Asia - one of the main concerns of the environmental and social equilibrium of the new century. These proceedings therefore contribute to the efforts of Indo-French and Sri Lankan-French cooperation to develop scientific collaboration on water management. The contributions by Indian, Sri Lankan and French specialists in the social sciences – historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, ge...
Note de l’éditeur
Proceedings of the Indo-French Round Table at the French Institute of Pondicherry, 31 October 2001
Éditeur : Institut Français de Pondichéry
Lieu d’édition : Pondichéry
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 21 juillet 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-6663-9
DOI : 10.4000/books.ifp.9970
Collection : Collection Sciences Sociales | 7
Année d’édition : 2003
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-81-8470-112-8
Nombre de pages : 186
Patrice Cohen et S. Janakarajan
AcknowledgementsPart I. History and traditional irrigation
Palaniappan Komathinayagam
1. Socio-Economic and Technological History of Irrigation in Tamil NaduK.D.N. Weerasinghe et C.M.K. Navarathne
2. History of Hydraulic Civilization and Irrigation Systems Development in Sri LankaPart II. Different issues of irrigation and social water management
S. Janakarajan
3. Degraded Ground Water Regimes and Feckless Governance in South India: an Example of Competition, Conflicts and Crisis**Nicolas Druesne
5. Water and Food Security: Related IssuesPaul Appasamy
6. Urban Water Supply and Urban EnvironmentJoël Ruet et Marie-Hélène Zerah
7. Providing Water Supply and Sanitation in Chennai: Some Recent Institutional DevelopmentsPart III. Legal and ecological settings in water management
A. Rajagopal et S. Janakarajan
8. Politics of Water Rights and Water Resource Management: a Critical Analysis of Water Rights Systems and Legislations in Tamil NaduPierre Curmi
9. Soils and Water: the Small Watersheds ApproachWater resources and their uses and management are - worldwide and on the regional scale of South Asia - one of the main concerns of the environmental and social equilibrium of the new century. These proceedings therefore contribute to the efforts of Indo-French and Sri Lankan-French cooperation to develop scientific collaboration on water management. The contributions by Indian, Sri Lankan and French specialists in the social sciences – historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers – as well as specialists in agronomy, soil sciences or forestry, offer critical approaches and data from various disciplines regarding the understanding of water availability and water uses and management in South India and Sri Lanka, along with themes that emerge from these considerations.
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