Water and the Quest for Sustainable Development in the Ganges Valley

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction: The Ganges and Brahmaputra Basins, Graham P. Chapman, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Policy-making in the Face of Uncertainty - the Himalayas as Unknowns, Michael Thompson, The Musgrave Institute, London. Part 2 Upstream and highland and lowland interaction: Terrace irrigation of mountainous hillslopes in the Middle Hills of Nepal - Stability or instability, Kegang Wu and John B. Thornes, Kings College London Assessing the impact of anthropogenic land-use change in the Himalayas, Bruno Messerli and Thomas Hofer, University of Bern Nepal's water resources - the potential for exploitation in the Upper Ganges Catchment, KB Sajjadur Rasheed, University of Dhaka Disputed facts: a countervailing view from the hills, Michael Thompson. Part 3 Midstream: The Ganga Plains, Graham P. Chapman Water quality in the River Ganges, VK. Kumra, Banaras Hindu University Whose Concept of participation? State-society dynamics in the cleaning of the Ganga at Varanasi, Sarah Ahmed, Institute of Rural Management, Gujarat. Part 4 Downstream: Environmental myth as international politics - the problems of the Bengal Delta, Graham P. Chapman The Human Response to environmental dynamics in Bangladesh, Shahnaz Huq-Hussain, University of Dhaka. Part 5 Conclusions.