The Bhakra-Nangal Project
Subtitle: Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts (Water Resources Management)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 12, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195675344
Description: "This book is an in-depth study of possibly the most well-known multi-purpose river valley project in north India, the Bhakra-Nangal Project. One of the first scientific performance-analyses of a completed project in India, it examines how far the stated objectives of the project have been fulfilled. The volume studies the incidental and indirect consequences of the dam including its synergetic impact and the 'green revolution'; increased food production and productivity in the area; and the displacement and rehabilitation of people from the areas submerged when the dam was built. Informative, yet written in an engaging manner, this volume will interest environmentalists, water management experts, activists, bureaucrats, policy planners, and an informed general public."--BOOK JACKET.