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Ethnology --- Tribes --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Brahmaputra River Valley --- Population.

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Sediment transport. --- Sédiments fluviaux. --- Brahmaputra River. --- Brahmapoutre (cours d'eau) --- Sédiments fluviaux.

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"Water scarcity is a difficult but important subject to address. Lectures on the topic usually begin with a complex diagram mapping the large number of issue areas that illustrates how vitally important water is to every facet of human existence. However, another message becomes apparent to students: water scarcity is an expansive topic and therefore theoretically problematic. From the start complications arise due to the pervasive nature of water. Water underwrites human life, so how can we begin to discuss it in isolation from other variables? Does water scarcity cause conflict or does conflict cause water scarcity? Is water scarcity due to a lack of availability or to ineffective allocation? Are the problems solved by building more infrastructure or does the spread of infrastructure lead to more water exploitation? Unfortunately, the best answer to most of these questions is: "it depends." Water scarcity is subject to a wide variation of conditions, depending on the uniqueness of each geographical area. Case studies, such as those used in Raging Waters: China, India, Bangladesh, and Brahmaputra River Politics are vitally important to understanding the broader impacts across a basin, but the ubiquitous nature of water confounds research efforts."--Provided by publisher.

Water rights (International law) --- Water resources development --- Water-supply --- Water security --- Political aspects --- Brahmaputra River Watershed --- Political aspects. --- Security, Water --- Human security --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water utilities --- Energy development --- International law --- geopolitics --- natural resources --- modern warfare --- China --- India --- Bangladesh

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The principal aim of this book is to provide a wide range of information and a useful reference for researchers interested to investigate heavy mineral assemblages in different geological settings and for a variety of purposes. The methodological developments achieved in recent years for the identification of heavy minerals in a wide grain-size range are illustrated. All factors that affect heavy mineral concentration and relative proportions, including hydraulic sorting, mechanical abrasion, chemical weathering, and post-depositional dissolution, and all factors able to introduce analytical, environmental, or diagenetic bias are thoroughly addressed. A proper integration of multiple techniques including bulk sediment, multi-mineral, and single-mineral methods are discussed by renowned authors in their invited contributions.

heavy minerals --- correlation --- North Sea --- Jurassic --- Triassic --- Carboniferous --- Devonian --- relative and absolute abundances --- sampling strategy --- size-window for analysis --- heavy mineral point-counting --- provenance and plate-tectonic setting --- chemical weathering --- hydraulic sorting --- recycling --- diagenesis --- sediment --- provenance --- statistics --- zircon --- point counting --- petrography --- mineral grains composition --- surface textures --- sources --- WNW Portuguese Continental Margin --- Raman spectroscopy --- sedimentary provenance --- automatization --- heavy mineral --- Pliocene --- the Changjiang Delta --- amphibole --- surface texture --- garnet --- epidote --- pyroxene --- provenance tracers --- varietal studies --- mineral chemistry --- semi-automated Raman counting --- Ladakh-Kohistan arcs --- Himalaya --- Nanga Parbat --- Karakorum --- Indus river --- amphiboles --- tremolite --- actinolite --- provenance analysis --- tectonic versus climatic control --- early-middle Pleistocene transition --- Yellow River terraces --- Lanzhou (northern China) --- sieving of fine silt --- fallacy of laser granulometry --- benthic foraminifera --- Ganga–Brahmaputra river system --- Bay of Bengal --- Himalayan orogen --- bulk-sediment petrography --- bulk-sediment geochemistry --- selective entrainment --- suspension sorting --- chemical indices of weathering --- sediment budgets --- Brahmaputra River --- Ganga River --- handbook for laboratory procedures --- nontoxic heavy liquids --- wet sieving of silt --- zircon separation --- heavy-mineral mounts --- n/a --- Ganga-Brahmaputra river system

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Management of water resources in large rivers basins typically differs in important ways from management in smaller basins. While in smaller basins the focus of water resources management may be on project implementation, irrigation and drainage management, water use efficiency and flood operations; in larger basins, because of the greater complexity and competing interests, there is often a greater need for long-term strategic river basin planning across sectors and jurisdictions, and considering social, environmental, and economic outcomes. This puts a focus on sustainable development, including consumptive water use and non-consumptive water uses, such as inland navigation and hydropower. It also requires the consideration of hard or technical issues—data, modeling, infrastructure—as well as soft issues of governance, including legal frameworks, policies, institutions, and political economy. Rapidly evolving technologies could play a significant role in managing large basins. This Special Issue of Water traverses these hard and soft aspects of managing water resources in large river basins through a series of diverse case studies from across the globe that demonstrate recent advances in both technical and governance innovations in river basin management.

multi-objective competition mechanism --- cascade reservoirs operation --- copula function --- Pareto set --- hydropower --- dam --- damage --- ecosystem --- conservation measures --- environmental assessment --- environmental flows --- GIS --- integrated water resources management --- river basin planning --- Ganga River --- India --- participatory modelling --- conjunctive water use --- hydrologic modelling --- co-production --- development assistance --- hydrological modelling --- irrigation --- IWRM --- rational choice --- stakeholder participation --- scenario analysis --- water governance --- transboundary waters --- cooperation --- integrated water resource management --- Brahmaputra River Basin --- South Asia --- SMAP --- passive microwave soil moisture --- soil moisture downscaling --- digital platforms --- stakeholder engagement --- equitable water sharing --- UN watercourse convention --- international and transboundary rivers --- Nile River basin --- disruptive technology --- river basins --- large basins --- water security --- water resources management --- water data --- information technology --- analytics --- n/a