ABOUT THE BOOK
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Rivers are the most visible form of
fresh water. Rivers are ancient and older than civilizations—a `mini cosmos`
spawning history, tales, spirituality, and technological incursions. Flowing
rivers are the largest renewable water resource as well as a crucible for both
humans and aquatic ecosystems. Rivers also have a habit of moving on and on
from their source from where they gush with gay abandon to their mouth where
they quietly disappear into the surroundings. That journey is now being
interrupted. Since the age of industrialization, humans have increasingly
exerted a pervasive influence on water resources. Rivers in particular have
drawn humans to monumental engineering interventions such as dams and barrages
often as chest-thumping dominance and seldom as an enduring bond between man
and nature.
ABOUT Author
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Uttam
Kumar Sinha is a Fellow at Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
and holds an adjunct position at the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research,
Banaras Hindu University. At IDSA, he is also the Managing Editor of Strategic
Analysis, published by Routledge. His research areas focus on climate change,
transboundary water issues and the Arctic region. A doctorate from the
Jawaharlal Nehru University, he worked in the daily Pioneer before joining
IDSA.
He has been a Chevening Scholar at the LSE in 2008 and
in 2015 at the Harvard Kennedy School on a South Asia Leaders Programme. He is
actively engaged in Track II dialogue process and represented India at the
Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on
Water Resources Security. He chaired the Working Group on Water Dispute
Resolution Mechanism of the Strategic Studies Network, National Defense
University (NDU) Washington DC.
Some of his recent edited volumes include, Non-Traditional Security
Challenges in Asia: Approaches and Responses (co-edited with Shebonti Ray
Dadwal) (Routledge 2015); Arctic: Commerce, Governance and Policy (Routledge,
2015); Emerging Strategic Trends in Asia (Pentagon Press, 2015).