Sustainable Development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins (Water Resources Management and Policy Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9280810413 ISBN 13: 9789280810417

Publisher: United Nations University, 1999

Synopsis

The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin contains the largest number of the world's poor in any one region. The population is increasing steadily, and unless the current development trends are broken, poverty will become even more pervasive. The region is endowed with considerable natural resources that could be used to foster sustainable economic development. Water could be successfully used as the engine to promote economic development of the region, which has been hindered because the most populous part of the basin is shared by three countries: Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, who have in the past been unable to agree to an integrated development plan. In Sustainable Development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins, leading technocrats and intellectuals discuss how, through cooperation between the countries concerned and by taking a holistic development approach, the quality of life of the people of the basin could be improved significantly within a reasonable timeframe.

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About the Author

Asit K. Biswas is the president of the Third World Centre for Water Management and a member of the World Commission on Water. Juha I. Uitto is senior evaluation advisor at the United Nations Development Programme Evaluation Office, New York, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: United Nations University
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9280810413
• ISBN 13: 9789280810417
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Biswas Asit K., Uitto Juha I.