River Bank Erosion and Land Loss

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. River bank erosion and protection in Gangetic Delta/Prasad Sen. 2. Ganga-Padma river: bank failure and changing courses--down the ages/Parthasarathi Chakrabarti. 3. Bank protection in Bhagirathi--Hooghly River--some case studies/B. Chaudhuri and M.K. Das. 4. Physical and numerical models for simulating river dynamics/Dhrubajyoti Sen. 5. Bank erosion and related land loss: a case study of Chitnan Village/Partha Basu. 6. The encroaching Ganga in Malda and related problems/Kalyan Rudra. 7. Abandoned channels: product of river bank erosion/Sutapa Mukhopadhyay and Malay Mukhopadhyay. 8. Some thoughts on river bank erosion and land loss/Debashis Sarkar and Kazi MB Rahim. 9. Judicious use of river embankment and its role to protect land erosion on an urban backdrop/Manisha Deb Sarkar. About the editors. Contributors.