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Watershed development in India. 2. New approaches for managing externalities and meeting sustainability requirements

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Ian Calder, Dr James GarrattORCiD, Emma Bishop

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Abstract

This paper recognises the need for a revision of watershed development policy in India in relation to the planning of development interventions involving agricultural intensification and rainwater harvesting and the need for new approaches to assist the planning process. Building on, and using as an example, the results of biophysical and societal impact studies carried out on two watershed development projects in Karnataka three new management/ dissemination tools, are suggested. These are (1) the web-based geographical information systems exploratory, climate land assessment and impact management tool dissemination tool for disseminating to policymakers and non-specialist stakeholders the downstream impacts of watershed interventions, (2) the 'quadrant' approach for ensuring that sustainability criteria are met and (3) Bayesian networks to investigate the biophysical and societal impacts of interventions. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

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Author(s): Calder I, Gosain A, Rao MSRM, Batchelor C, Garratt J, Bishop E

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Environment, Development and Sustainability

Year: 2008

Volume: 10

Issue: 4

Pages: 427-440

Print publication date: 01/08/2008

ISSN (print): 1387-585X

ISSN (electronic): 1573-2975

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-006-9073-0

DOI: 10.1007/s10668-006-9073-0

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