This book will be useful for the researcher working in the field of water chemistry. With increasing dependency on ground water for human use its quality become an important factor. The ground water quality of any given area depends upon parent rocks composition, retention time along with input from surface in form of leachate....

This volume reviews the experience of cooperation in five international river basins, focusing on the perceptions of risks and opportunities by decision makers in countries responding to a specific prospect of cooperation....

Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these three factors ?...

This collection analyzes India\'s economic growth and its integration with the world economy. The essays, both analytical and prescriptive, offer fresh and unconventional answers to questions related to the turning point of India\'s economy, its pattern of economic development, status of public institutions, and its economic future....