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Planning, development, and management of water resources are interdisciplinary and require an integrated approach. This approach involves both science and humanities. Sometimes humanities are facetiously termed ‘soft’ sciences, and sciences including physical and biological sciences, as well as their engineering offsprings, as ‘hard’ sciences. The science includes climatology, geology, soil science, agriculture, civil and agricultural engineering, environmental science and ecology; whereas the humanities include society, social structure, politics, economics, administration, culture, religion, languages, and so on. This chapter introduces the Brahmaputra River basin and summarizes the various aspects of water resources planning and development in the basin.
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Ojha, C.S.P., Singh, V.P. (2004). Introduction. In: Singh, V.P., Sharma, N., Ojha, C.S.P. (eds) The Brahmaputra Basin Water Resources. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0540-0_1
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