From Catchment Management to Managing River Basins
Science, Technology Choices, Institutions and Policy
Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research Series

Coordinators: Kumar M. Dinesh, Ratna Reddy V., James A. J.

Language: English

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From Catchment Management to Managing River Basins: Science, Technology Choices, Institutions and Policy synthesizes key scientific facts crucial for catchment assessment, planning and river basin water accounting. The book presents extensive reviews of international literature on catchment hydrology, forest hydrology and other hydrological processes, such as groundwater-surface water interactions. It discusses not only the science of catchment assessment and planning, but also the catchment planning process. It documents several of the positive international experiences with integrated catchment management and integrated basin management, distilling key learnings. Case studies from India and other parts of South Asia are also included, along with new pilot studies.

Finally, the book discusses the theoretical and operational aspects of integrated catchment management and integrated water management in river basins using international best practices and case studies.

1. Introduction 2. Catchment Management to Basin Management: International Perspectives and Overview of Global Experience 3. Watershed Management Experiences in South Asia 4. From Watershed to Sub-Basins: Analyzing the Scale Effects of Watershed Development in Narmada River Basin, Central India 5. Catchment Assessment and Planning for Improving Effectiveness of Watershed Development Interventions: A Case Study from South Gujarat 6. Basin Water Accounting to Develop Understanding of Water Tenures: A Case Study of Water Rich Warna River Basin 7. Basin Water Accounting for Evolving Integrated Water Resources Management Plan: A Case Study of Water-Scarce Luni River Basin 8. Downscaling IWRM Plan from Basin to Districts: IWRM Plan for the District of Pali in Western Rajasthan 9. Water Accounting for Kanpur Metropolitan Area in Ganges River Basin 10. Addressing the Scale Issues in Watershed Development 11. Operationalizing IWRM Concepts at the Basin Level: From Theory to Practice 12. Conclusions and Areas for Future Research

Catchment management authorizes/agencies and river basin management boards/authorities, experts working in: catchment Hydrology, basin hydrology, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Integrated Catchment Management; Catchment and river basin planning; Civil Engineering

Dr Dinesh Kumar is the Executive Director of the Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy in Hyderabad, an Indian think-tank on water management founded by him in 2008. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering (focus on water resources management) and a Ph. D in Water Management. He works on water, agriculture, and energy related issues in India and internationally, heading several research and consultancy projects and training assignments of the organization. He is the author of nearly 300 research publications, including nine academic books, nine edited volumes, and several international, peer-reviewed journal articles. He is on the editorial board of four prestigious international journals, Viz., Water Policy, International Journal of Water Resources Development, PLOS Water journal and Frontiers in Water. In a career spanning 30 years, Kumar has visited 21 countries, for conferences and official work.
V Ratna Reddy is an economist by training with experience in the fields of environmental economics and natural resource management, climate change, livelihoods and institutions. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at South Asian Institute, Germany. Visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and the University of Leeds, UK. Served as consultant to organisations like: The World Bank; ADB; UNDP; DFID; EC; WWF, IWMI, ICRISAT, UNU, etc. He had served as a working group member in the preparation of 11th and 12th Plans for the Government of India. He has published 12 books and more than 150 research papers in international and national peer reviewed journals. He has a Ph. D in Economics (1992, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore through University of Mysore); Post. Doc- Alexander von Humboldt research Fellow, South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. Since 2009, he is Director of Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management Institute, Hyderabad. During 1999-2008, he served as Professor at Centre for Economic and Socia
  • Discusses the theoretical nuances of scale effects in hydrology and land-use hydrology interactions
  • Focuses on managing water in a situation in which water has become scarce
  • Provides a theoretical discussion on water accounting procedures that is followed by an application of the methodology and tools in real-life case studies in two river basins of India
  • Presents applications of the concept of integrated water resources management for developing a WRM plan for an Indian river basin