Participatory environmental governance and climate change adaptation: mainstreaming of tidal river management in South-West Bangladesh

This article was published in Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia [ © 2015 Springer India ] and the definite version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1976-7_13 The book chapter's website is at: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-81-322-1976-7_13Climate change as a human-induced phenomenon in one hand and the government to governance shift on the other, participatory environmental governance involving wider and deeper participation of civil society in environmental governance can be crucial in climate change adaptation. As illustrated by Paani Committee’s (PC) movement for mainstreaming of tidal river management (TRM), civil society organisations (CSOs) often have to secure participation in environmental governance through mobilisations and movement. Their participation can also involve policy or governance innovation such as incorporating indigenous knowledge-based flood and water management approach as TRM that is also useful as a climate change adaptation approach.Publishe

Identifying multiple deep aquifers in the Bengal Basin: Implications for resource management

In the Bengal Basin of Bangladesh and West Bengal (India), where arsenic (As) and salinity adversely affect groundwater in shallow aquifers (−3.5‰) with low As, Cl, and Fe concentrations occupies hydraulically trapped positions in the South-Central, Southeast, Southwest, and Madhupur aquifer units and (b) terminal Pleistocene to Early Holocene recharge of isotopically lighter water (δ18O <−3.5‰) that has high Fe and slightly elevated Cl concentrations and was recharged along palaeochannels that facilitated deep circulation up to the mid-Holocene. Piezometric responses to development change in style towards the coast. In the north, water levels at all depths tend to be coincident and transition through a seasonally divergent pattern to become parallel in the south with a near constant downward gradient. The delineation of the deep aquifer units provides a practical framework for the assessment and management of groundwater resources for water supply