Publications

This volume presents cutting-edge research on India’s Northeast region relating to borders, material mobilities, contested identities, and economic and political dynamics.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has recently called for a comprehensive water policy for Andhra Pradesh while reviewing the water resources development.

The European experience of river basin management (RBM) is often considered a template for many emerging nations. Europe demonstrated the successful implementation of river restoration programmes for some of its most complex and important trans boundary river basins, such as the Rhine and Danube.

India and EU already share a formal partnership with a strategic vision to advance multilateral engagement on environmental protection, climate change and sustainable development.

There is an increasing policy engagement and advocacy emerging from various fronts on the possible European commitments and collaboration in the management of India’s river basins. One of the key learning experiences that is often suggested in this context is to reflect on Europe’s policy frameworks and institutional structures for improved outcomes from India’s river rejuvenation programmes.

This Handbook is a response to the rapid growth of environmental and natural resources law over the past few decades in India. The discipline is now a distinct field of research and teaching.

What do we mean by water-centric urban planning and governance? Urban water security challenges are no longer merely about access to water, but also coping with floods, water quality and other climate change induced risks. For some time, there has been a recognition that statutory urban planning needs to be re-imagined and that existing town and country planning (T&CP) laws and practices need to be reconsidered to address some of these complex challenges.

India boasts of a vast freshwater resource network (rivers, wetlands, and groundwater), which has unique ecological, social and economic values associated with it.

In India, elections are a celebratory event. Even a customary glance at the newspaper or digital media gives an insightful perspective to acknowledge the diversity and pluralism existing in the country with inevitable conflict arising out of it and concomitant strategic cooperation forged to advance socio-political agendas.

The Cauvery dispute has flared up again, the first time after 2018 when the Supreme Court (SC) re-adjudicated the dispute after a tribunal gave its award.