The Indus and the Ganges: river basins under extreme pressure.
The basins of the Indus and Ganges rivers cover 2.20 million km2 and are inhabited by more than a billion people. The region is under extreme pressures of population and poverty, unregulated utilization of the resources and low levels of productivity. The needs are: (1) development policies that are regionally differentiated to ensure resource sustainability and high productivity; (2) immediate development and implementation of policies for sound groundwater management and energy use; (3) improvement of the fragile food security and to broaden its base; and (4) policy changes to address land fragmentation and improved infrastructure. Meeting these needs will help to improve productivity, reduce rural poverty and improve overall human development.
Main Authors: | Sharma, Bharat R., Amarasinghe, Upali A., Shah, Tushaar, Bharati, Luna, Ambili, G.K., Qureshi, Asad Sarwar, Singh, R., Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Xueliang Cai, Condappa, D. de, Mukherji, Aditi, Pant, Dhruba, Xenarios, Stefanos |
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Format: | Book Chapter biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2012
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34693 |
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