Use and Misuse of Land and Water Resources
Contents: Preface. I. Water and land resources: 1. Use and misuse of land and water resources in India/Mohammad Shafi. 2. Natural resource management and people\'s participation with special reference to India/Mridula Singh. 3. Water and land in Andaman and Nicobar Islands/Prithvish Nag. 4. Impact of tourism on land and water resources on the coast of Goa/Daksha C. Barai and Chandna Rao. 5. Land and water scenario in Uttaranchal with reference to Nainital District/O.P. Singh and Ashish K. Singh. 6. Integrated land and water management: the case of Gandak wetlands/Jagdish Singh and U.S. Singh. II. Water resources: 7. Geography matters in interlinking rivers in India/Kaushal Kumar Sharma. 8. Integrated watershed management for livelihood security: a case study of Uppalgaon watershed, Uttaranchal Himalayas/Ram Babu Singh and Nawal Prakash. 9. Environmental transformation and conservation of water resources in Himalayan headwater of Uttaranchal: an experimental study of Kosi Headwater in Kumaon Lesser Himalayas/P.C. Tiwari and Bhagwati Joshi. 10. Domestic water use pattern, water wastage and water deficient households in Aligarh City/Abha Lakshmi Singh and Nazish Khan. 11. Geomorphology in water resource management: some studies from the Deccan region/Vishwas S. Kale. 12. The problems and prospects of water utilization in Hyderabad metropolitan region/S. Padmaja and Kaushalya Ramachandran. 13. Quality of underground water resources in environs of Hyderabad/Anand Gopagani and Vijay Bhole. 14. Watershed management and planning for sustainable development in Rajasthan/R.K. Gujar and B.C. Jat. 15. Indira Gandhi Canal Project: a critical review of the institutional arrangement for resource management/H.S. Sharma. III. Land resources: 16. Management of land resources: constraints and potentials/Ram Bali Singh and Bhola Nath Singh. 17. Land resource appraisal of Himalayan eco-system: a case study of Uttaranchal State/R.K. Sexena, K.S. Verma, A.K. Barshwal, R. Srivastava, S.P. Singh and J. Ram. 18. Management of agricultural land use and utilization of fallow lands in Dehradun District/Abdul Munir, Kazma Khan and Yasmeen Nasir. 19. Salt affected soils of different geomorphic plains of Uttar Pradesh/K.S. Verma and R.K. Saxena. 20. Land alienation and deprivation of tribal communities in Sonbhadra/S.B. Singh, B.K. Singh and Shayam B. Singh. 21. Land transformation during 1973-74--1977-78 : A case study of Lucknow City/Ateeque Ahmad and Kaneez-e-Ibrahim. 22. Land transformation in relation to distance in developing economy/Shahab Fazal. 23. Remote sensing an indispensable tool for measuring land productivity/Sadhna Tyagi. 24. Forest resources: joint forest management in Nizamabad District of Andhra Pradesh/R. Sudhakar Goud and Kamlakar Reddy. 25. Agricultural development and environmental degradation in Karnal District/Noor Mohammad and D.V. Chikkara.
"Land and water resources are the two most vital assets of the country and there is an urgent need to conserve and properly manage these resources.
The paper in this book are coverage on the theme. \'Use and misuse of land and water resources. The various papers unfold these perspectives and make valuable contributions in each area. Each of them look at different aspects of the problem and covers different areas of the country. Such a comprehensive study is essential for the management of land and water resources.
The whole book comprises of 25 paper, they are grouped in three sections:
The first section includes six papers which deal with both land and water resources. Two papers are general giving an overview of India while four papers present case studies from Andaman and Nicobar, Goa, Nainital and Gandak Region.
The second section includes nine papers which deal with use and misuse of water resources. One paper is general, given view of interlinking of rivers, while the rest are case studies from Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Deccan Region, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan from very different perspectives.
The third section includes ten papers which deal with the use and misuse of land resources. One paper is general, giving a view of management of land resources while rest are case studies from Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Goa and Andhra Pradesh from very different perspectives." (jacket)
