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The Lower Damodar River, India - Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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The Lower Damodar River, India - Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research, 3
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Interweaving 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. This 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. Bhattacharyya's text is particularly
timely, as anthropogenic processes of this kind have not been
adequately studied by geographers.
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