The lower Damodar River, India : understanding the human role in changing fluvial environment

The lower Damodar River, India : understanding the human role in changing fluvial environment / by Kumkum Bhattacharyya.

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...

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Other Authors: Bhattacharyya, Kumkum
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2011.
Series:Advances in Asian human-environmental research.
Subjects:
Stream ecology > India > Damodar River.
Hydraulic engineering.
Pollution.
Physical geography.
hydraulic engineering.
pollution.
chemical pollution.
physical geography.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Rivers.
Environnement.
Climat.
Stream ecology
Damodar River (India)
India > Damodar River
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Damodar Valley Region
  • 3. Floods and Water Resource Management in a Tropical River, the Damodar
  • 4. The Reservoired Lower Damodar: Hydro-Geomorphic Perspective
  • 5. Colonization Processes in the Damodar Riverbed
  • 6. Controlled Lower Damodar: Social Perspective
  • 7. The Controlled Lower Damodar: A Product of Hydrogeomorphic and Anthropogenic Processes
  • 8. Towards Better Interaction
  • References
  • APPENDIX I. Model questionnaire of perception survey
  • APPENDIX II. List of reference maps
  • APPENDIX III. Hydrological observation
  • APPENDIX IV. Information about Maithon and Panchet Project.-APPENDIX V. Streamflow of the Damodar River at Rhondia
  • APPENDIX VI. Streamflow of the Damodar River at Damodar Bridge Site
  • APPENDIX VII. Inflow into Durgapur Barrage and canal consumption
  • APPENDIX VIII. Volume of water released down the Durgapur Barrage and canals
  • APPENDIX IX. Combined moderation by Maithon and Panchet dams of the Damodar River
  • APPENDIX X. Peak flow of the Damodar River, Rhondia
  • APPENDIX XI. Average monsoon discharge and suspended sediment of Damodar at Damodar Bridge Site
  • APPENDIX XII. GIS as a toolbox for flood, water & land resource planners.

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