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Moving towards a more holistic view of ecosystems has become crucial to environment debates and shifting policy thrusts. This collection of scholarly articles spans various issues pertaining to water resource management and agricultural practices. While analysing the trade-offs between growth in agriculture and environmental sustainability, the volume focuses on the balance between private benefits and sustainable development, growing demand–supply gaps, inter-sectoral allocation and pricing of water, and trade and environment. Context-specific issues such as arsenic contamination in India and Bangladesh, and farmers’ suicides in Andhra Pradesh are examined.
The contributors—ecologists, economists, agricultural scientists, and engineers—develop appropriate methodologies for assessing environmental and economic costs, seeking to integrate sustainable water use for human consumption as well as agricultural production.
Case studies from countries of South Asia, Latin America, and the European Union help in the analyses of adverse environmental impacts and also in identifying relevant policies to mitigate such impacts.
ISBN - 9780198061755
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