The Lower Damodar River, India - Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment

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Kumkum Bhattacharyya

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Kumkum Bhattacharyya - The Lower Damodar River, India - Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment.
pInterweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph... Lire la suite
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pInterweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the Damodar's lower reaches. While the Damodar River isn't an exceptional tropical river, nor does it feature classic examples of river control structures, it is unusual and worthy of study due to the fact that nowhere else in the tropical world have riverine sandbars been used as a resource base as well as for permanent settlements.
Based on their knowledge of river stages, the inhabitants have fine-tuned their land use to flood events, applying a concept of flood zoning to the riverbed. Every available space has been utilized rationally and judiciously./ppThis rare human-environmental study analyzes the remarkable way in which immigrants unfamiliar with the riverine environment have adapted to the altered hydrologic regime of the river.
In doing so they have demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of the flood regime and the vagaries of an unpromising environment in their land use, cropping and settlement patterns. Spurred on by restricted social and economic mobility and sometimes political constraints, these self-settled refugees have learned to adapt to their environment and live with the� floods./ppBhattacharyya's text is particularly timely, as anthropogenic processes of this kind have not been adequately studied by�� geographers./p

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    01/11/2011
  • Editeur
  • Collection
    Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
  • ISBN
    9789400704664
  • EAN
    9789400704664
  • Présentation
    Cartonné
  • Poids
    0.644 Kg
  • Dimensions
    16,4 cm × 24,2 cm × 2,0 cm

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