Environmental Communication and Water Management in India
Environmental Communication and Water Management in India

Author: Ram Awtar Yadav

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1000872785

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This book analyses the underlying communication strategies and approaches of grassroots water management practices in India through a case study-based ethnographic approach. Drawing from fieldwork experiences, this volume provides a detailed overview of Parmarth, a not-for-profit NGO, which is the case study for this research. It presents an in-depth theoretically informed analysis of data collected through multiple methods, which includes key informant interviews, focus group discussions, participant observation, and document reviews, among other approaches. The book examines Parmarth’s strategies and processes to mobilise women as important stakeholders in the region’s water conservation initiatives. It discusses communicative actions, tactics and campaigns in water interventions and the role of various stakeholders ranging from local community members to civil society. Accessibly written, this volume is a must-read for scholars and researchers of media and communication studies, environmental communication, ecology studies, development studies, public policy, sustainable development, water management, sociology, and political science.

Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication
Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication

Author: Pat Brereton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-19

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1000564851

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This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental communications. Addressing this challenge, Essential Concepts for Environmental Communication synthesises summary writings from a broad range of environmental theorists, while teasing out provocative concepts and key ideas that frame this evolving, multi-disciplinary field. Each entry maps out an important concept or environmental idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across the growing field of environmental communication debates. Included in this volume is a full section dedicated to exploring what environmental communication might look like in a post-COVID setting: • Offers cutting-edge analysis of the current state of environmental communications. • Presents an up-to-date exploration of environmental and sustainable development models at a local and global level. • Provides an in-depth exploration of key concepts across the ever-expanding environmental communications field. • Examines the interaction between environmental and media communications at all levels. • Provides a critical review of contemporary environmental communications literature and scholarship. With key bibliographical references and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

Environmental Communication and Community
Environmental Communication and Community

Author: Tarla Rai Peterson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 131742932X

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As society has become increasingly aware of environmental issues, the challenge of structuring public participation opportunities that strengthen democracy, while promoting more sustainable communities has become crucial for many natural resource agencies, industries, interest groups and publics. The processes of negotiating between the often disparate values held by these diverse groups, and formulating and implementing policies that enable people to fulfil goals associated with these values, can strengthen communities as well as tear them apart. This book provides a critical examination of the role communication plays in social transition, through both construction and destruction of community. The authors examine the processes and practices put in play when people who may or may not have previously seen themselves as interconnected, communicate with each other, often in situations where they are competing for the same resources. Drawing upon a diverse selection of case-studies on the American, Asian and European continents, the chapters chart a range of approaches to environmental communication, including symbolic construction, modes of organising and agonistic politics of communication. This volume will be of great interest to researchers, teachers, and practitioners of environmental communication, environmental conflict, community development and natural resource management.

Agri-Tech Approaches for Nutrients and Irrigation Water Management
Agri-Tech Approaches for Nutrients and Irrigation Water Management

Author: Shivam Gupta

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-06-03

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1040021409

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This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospects. This book accommodates up-to-date approaches to agricultural technologies along with future directions and compiles a wide range of articles ranging from soil moisture flow, nutrient dynamics, crop water estimation techniques, approaches to improve crop water productivity and soil health, crop simulation modeling, and remote sensing/GIS applications. The book also includes chapters on climate-resilient agriculture, advances in big data and machine-learning techniques, IoT, plasma technology, seed priming, and precision farming techniques and their environmental/economic impacts. Features: • Discusses applications sustainable technologies for soil nutrients and irrigation water management at multi-scale. • Covers application of remote sensing/GIS, big data and machine learning, IoT, plasma technology, seed priming, and precision farming techniques for nutrients and water management. • Reviews concepts, methodologies, and techniques being used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management. • Provides up-to-date information as well as future directions in the field of nutrients and agricultural water management. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in agriculture, water resources, environment, and irrigation engineering.

Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change
Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change

Author: Binota Thokchom

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0128203943

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Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change reviews key issues surrounding climate change and water resources. The book brings together experts from a variety of fields and perspectives, providing a comprehensive view on how climate change impacts water resources, how water pollution impacts climate change, and how to assess potential hazards and success stories on managing and addressing current issues in the field. Topics also include assessing policy impacts, innovative water reuse strategies, and information on impacts on fisheries and agriculture including food scarcity. This book is an excellent tool for researchers and professionals in Climate Change, Climate Services and Water Resources, and those trying to combat the impacts and issues related to Global and Planetary Change. - Covers a wide range of theoretical and practical issues related to how climate change impacts water resources and adaptation, with extended influence on agriculture, food and water security, policymaking, etc. - Reviews mathematical tools and simulations models on predicting potential hazards from climate change in such a way they can be useful to readers from a variety of levels of mathematical expertise - Examines the potential impacts on agriculture and drinking water quality - Includes case studies of successful management of water and pollutants that contribute to climate change

Water Communication
Water Communication

Author: Celine Herve-Bazin

Publisher: IWA Publishing

Published: 2014-04-14

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1780405219

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Water Communication aims at setting a first general outlook at what communication on water means, who communicates and on what topics. Through different examples and based on different research and contributions, this book presents an original first overview of “water communication”. It sets its academic value as one distinct scientific domain and provides tips and practical tools to professionals. The book contributes to avoid mixing messages, targets and discourses when setting communication related to water issues. The book facilitates coordination within the water sector and its organizations as water is a wide field of applications where inadequate words and language understanding between its stakeholders is one of the main obstacles today. Water Communication provides and describes: a general outlook and retrospective of the history of the water sector in terms of communication the landscape of organizations communicating on water and classification of topics the differences between communication, information, mediation, raising awareness examples of communication campaigns on water Water Communication is a vital resource for communication managers, utility managers, policy makers involved in water management and students in water sciences and environment. Colour figures from the book are available to view on the WaterWiki at: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/WaterCommunicationAnalysisofStrategiesandCampaignsfromtheWaterSector Editor: Celine Herve-Bazin, Celsa - Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Communication, Culture and Ecology
Communication, Culture and Ecology

Author: Kiran Prasad

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9811071047

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This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of contributions and case studies from leading experts in Asia to highlight the debates on environmental communication and sustainable development that are relevant today, and to provide an overview of the positive traditions of ecological sensitivity and cultural communication that may find common ground between communities. This well-researched guide to the dynamic and complex terrain of communication for sustainable development offers uniquely practical perspectives on communication, environment and sustainable development that are of immense value for policy makers, media scholars, development practitioners, researchers and students of communication and media studies.

Institutionalizing Common Pool Resources
Institutionalizing Common Pool Resources

Author: Dinesh K. Marothia

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13: 9788170229810

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This Volume Presents A Unique Interdisciplinary Assembly Of Thoughts In Which Agricultural Scientists, Fisheries Scientists, Forestry Experts, Alternative Medicine Systems Experts, Environmental And Resource Economists Among Others Have Addressed Their Tasks Focussing On Institutions As A Crosscutting Theme In Their Writings On Sustainable Use Of Common Pool Resources.

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere
Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere

Author: Phaedra C. Pezzullo

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1506363571

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The Fifth Edition of the award-winning Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere is the first comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. It also examines how we define what constitutes an environmental problem and how we decide what actions to take concerning the natural world. The updated and revised Fifth Edition includes recent developments, such as water protectors and the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Flint Water Crisis, and the March for Science, along with the latest research and developments in environmental communication.

World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation
World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation

Author: Nicholas Polunin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 1134059388

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Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. This boof recounts the dynastic convolutions and power struggle leading up to his rebellion and subsequent events.