Sustainable Development in India

This book explores and interrogates the food-water-energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic development.

Autorentext

Koichi Fujita is Professor of Economics at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, Japan.

Tsukasa Mizushima is Professor Emeritus at The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Zusammenfassung
This book explores and interrogates the foodwaterenergy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic development.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Part I Land, Water, and Population in the Past and Future 2. Land Development and Demographic Change in Tamil Nadu from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century 3. From Sharing Risks to Taking Risks: System of Entitlements and its Fragmentation in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Orissa 4. Bengal Agrarian Society during late Colonial Rule: The Development of the Sundarbans 5. Sustaining Tank Irrigation in South India through Time-Tested Measures 6. Ahar: A Traditional Irrigation System in Southern Bihar Part II Regional Path Dependencies and Policy Orientations for Sustainability 7. Overview of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus in India and South Asia 8. Challenges of Growth and Sustainability: Agriculture in Indian Punjab 9. Nitrogen Cycle and Fertilizer Subsidy in India 10. Sustainability of Groundwater-Irrigated Agriculture in India: Case Studies of Punjab and Tamil Nadu 11. Farm Power Policies and Groundwater Markets: Contrasting Gujarat with West Bengal (19902015)