Author Description

About the Author Unai Pascual, is a Lecturer at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge,UK. Amita Shah is a Professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Gujarat, India. Jayanta Bandyopadhyay is a Professor and Head of the Centre for Development and Environment Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India Product Description The book is a scholarly presentation on various issues pertaining to water resource management and agriculture practices. These include water contamination and health; trade-off between private benefits and sustainable development; and trade and environment. The volume makes a significantcontribution to methodologies for assessing environmental and economic costs and identification of appropriate policy framework for abatement. A special feature of the book is that it seeks to integrate the issues of suitability across water use for human consumption and for agricultural productionby exploring a broad conceptual framework. Case studies from a number of countries such as India, Bangladesh, Belgium, and the European Union are covered.