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borderland which separates the known from the unknown”

-P.C.Mahalanobis


Our national River Ganga :



xv, 415 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Content notes : Part I: Introduction to Ganga --
1. Introduction to Our National River Ganga via cmaps / Rashmi Sanghi and Nitin Kaushal --
2. Ganga - Our Endangered Heritage / Subhajyoti Das --
Part II: Rich Biodiversity of Ganga Basin --
3. Distribution of Major Floral and Faunal Diversity in the Mountain and Upper Gangetic Plains Zone of the Ganga: Diatoms, Macroinvertebrates and Fish / Prakash Nautiyal, Jyoti Verma and Asheesh Shivam Mishra --
4. Indicator Species (Gharial and Dolphin) of Riverine Ecosystem: An Exploratory of River Ganga / Sandeep Kumar Behera, Hari Singh and Viveksheel Sagar --
5. Sundarban Mangroves: Impact of Water Management in the Ganga River Basin / Malavika Chauhan and Brij Gopal --
Part III: Ganga Water Quality and Flows --
6. Nature's Cure of the Ganga: The Ganga-Jal / Devendra
Swaroop Bhargava and Devendra Swaroop Bhargava --
7. Water Quality Challenges in Ganga Basin, India / Ramesh Chandra Trivedi and Ramesh Chandra Trivedi --
8. Issues and Challenges of River Ganga / B. D. Tripathi and Smriti Tripathi --
9. Environmental Flows for River Ganga / Nitin Kaushal --
Part IV: Some Vital Challenges Being Faced by Ganga in Changing Times --
10. Snow Melt Runoff Status in Part of Ganga Basin / Praveen K. Thakur --
11. River Bank Erosion Hazard Study of River Ganga, Upstream of Farakka Barrage Using Remote Sensing and GIS / Praveen K. Thakur --
12. The Developments, Policies and Assessments of Hydropower in the Ganga River Basin / Kelly D. Alley --
13. 3Ps ( Population, Poverty and Pollution ) and the Pious Poor Ganga / Niraj Kumar --
Part V: Livelihood and Tourism --
14. Living Out of Ganga : A Traditional Yet Imperiled Livelihood on Bamboo Post Harvest Processing and Emerging Problems of Ganga / Dipankar Ghorai and Himadri Sekhar Sen --
15. E-Flows Related Livelihood in the Ganga River: A Case Study of Tourism / Murali Prasad Panta. Stream ecology - Ganges River (India and Bangladesh) Freshwater biodiversity - Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)

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