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Increasing Role Of Large Reservoirs In Sustaining Urban Water Supplies In India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Increasing Role Of Large Reservoirs In Sustaining Urban Water Supplies In India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Conference: 2011 World Water Week in Stockholm Duration: August 21-27, 2011 Venue: Stockholm International Fair, Stockholm, Sweden Organizer: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) Theme: Responding to Global Changes: Water in an Urbanising World Workshop 5 (sub-theme): Water for Sustainable Urban Growth For abstract go to Page No. 185 at the Conference Abstract Volume Download from the following link: http://www.worldwaterweek.org/documents/Resources/Synthesis/Abstract-Volume-2011.pdf
Farmers’ Willingness To Adopt Agricultural Best Management Practices To Control Nonpoint Source Pollution In The Lower Bhavani River Basin, Tamilnadu, India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Farmers’ Willingness To Adopt Agricultural Best Management Practices To Control Nonpoint Source Pollution In The Lower Bhavani River Basin, Tamilnadu, India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Sacchidananda Mukherjee
The role of stakeholders and their voluntary participation in agri-environmental management in general and water resources conservation in particular is a new area of research, at least for a developing country like India. This study attempts to understand the factors influencing farmers’ willingness to adopt agricultural Best Management Practices (BMPs) to protect groundwater from nonpoint sources of pollution. Based on long term groundwater nitrate concentration and source(s) of irrigation six villages selected in the Lower Bhavani River Basin, Tamilnadu and detailed questionnaire survey (face-to-face interviews) has been carried out among 395 farm households. The results of binary choice Probit models …
Factors Influencing Farmers’ Willingness To Protect Groundwater From Nonpoint Sources Of Pollution In The Lower Bhavani River Basin, Tamil Nadu, India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Factors Influencing Farmers’ Willingness To Protect Groundwater From Nonpoint Sources Of Pollution In The Lower Bhavani River Basin, Tamil Nadu, India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Farmers' perceptions about groundwater and drinking water quality are important, which influence their willingness to adopt protection measures either individually or collectively. This study attempts to capture the factors influencing farmers’ perceptions and their willingness to protect groundwater from nonpoint sources of pollution, and their willingness to support the local government to supply drinking water through alternative arrangements. Six villages are identified in the Lower Bhavani River Basin, Tamil Nadu, India on the basis of their long-term groundwater nitrate concentrations and sources of irrigation. A pre-structured questionnaire survey (face-to-face interviews) has been administered to 395 farm-households across six villages during …
Economic Valuation Of A Wetland In West Bengal, India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Economic Valuation Of A Wetland In West Bengal, India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Sacchidananda Mukherjee
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant stakeholders, which are higher than that in single use systems. Economic and ecological functions of MUS changes over time and space. These dynamic aspects of MUS are often not fully appreciated. Attempts to classify wetlands according to their uses across ecological zones and to do their economic valuation are very limited. Based …