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Increasing Role Of Large Reservoirs In Sustaining Urban Water Supplies In India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee Aug 2011

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


Is There Any Interdependence Between Economic Growth And Human Development? Evidence From Indian States, Sacchidananda Mukherjee Dr., Debashis Chakraborty Jan 2011

Is There Any Interdependence Between Economic Growth And Human Development? Evidence From Indian States, Sacchidananda Mukherjee Dr., Debashis Chakraborty

Sacchidananda Mukherjee

This paper attempts to analyse the evolving relationship between economic growth and human development for 28 major Indian states during four time periods ranging over the last two decades, viz. 1983, 1993, 1999-2000 and 2004-05. The objective of this exercise is to understand whether per capita income (as an indicator of economic growth) is influenced by human development and vice versa across Indian states. The National Human Development Report 2001 methodology has been applied for constructing the Human Development Index (HDI) for the Indian states. The HDI has been constructed separately for rural and urban areas for each of the …


Farmers’ Willingness To Adopt Agricultural Best Management Practices To Control Nonpoint Source Pollution In The Lower Bhavani River Basin, Tamilnadu, India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee Oct 2009

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 …


Economic Valuation Of A Wetland In West Bengal, India, Sacchidananda Mukherjee Apr 2008

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 …