TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joy, KJ
AU  - Das, Partha J
AU  - Chakraborty, Gorky
AU  - Mahanta, Chandan
AU  - Paranjabe, Suhas
AU  - Vispute, Shruti
TI  - Water conflicts in Northeast India
SN  - 97881138098503
U1  - 333.91009541 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge.
KW  - Politics
N1  - CONTENTS

1. Understanding Water Conflicts in Northeast India.

Part: 1- Fault lines.
2. Damming of Rivers and Anthropological Research.
3. Water quality in Assam: Challenges Discontentment and Conflict.
4. Harnessing energy potential in fragile landscapes: exploration of conflicts and emerging issues around hydropower developments in Sikkim.
5. Hydropower conflicts in Sikkim: recognizing the power of citizen initiatives for socio-environmental justice.
6. State Water Policy of Assam 2007: conflict over commercializing water.
7. Water conflict in Northeast India: the need for a multi-tract mechanism.
8. Whose river is it, anyway? The Political economy of hydropower in the Eastern Himalayas.

Part: II- Case studies.
9. Conflicts over embarkments on the Jiadhal River in Dhemaji District, Assam.
10. Riverbank erosion in Rohmoria: impact, conflict and people's struggle.
11. The char dwellers of Assam: flowing river, floating people.
12. Seismic Survey for oil exploration in the Brahmaputra River Basin, Assam: scientific understanding and people's perceptions.
13. Hydrocarbon extraction in Manipur and its impact on Barak downstream.
14. The Dibang Multipurpose Project: resistance of the Idu Mishmi.
15. Tipaimukh High Dam on the Barak River: conflicting Land and People.
16. Hydropower projects on the Testa River: movement again mega dams in Sikkim.
17. An uneven flow? Navigating downstream concerns over China's water policy.
Includes Illustrations, Contributors, Foreword, Acknowledgement and List of Contributors
ER  -