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Confronting scale in watershed development in India

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-011-0824-0
 
Title Confronting scale in watershed development in India
 
Creator Syme, G J
Reddy, V R
Pavelic, P
Croke, B
Ranjan, R
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description The issue of scale is examined in the context of a
watershed development policy (WSD) in India.WSD policy
goals, by improving the natural resource base, aim to
improve the livelihoods of rural communities through
increased sustainable production. It has generally been
practiced at a micro-level of less than 500ha, as this was
seen to be a scale that would encourage participative
management. There has been some concern that this land
area may be too small and may lead to less than optimal
hydrological, economic and equity outcomes. As a result
there has been a move to create guidelines for meso-scale
WSD of above 5,000ha in an endeavour to improve
outcomes. A multidisciplinary team was assembled to
evaluate the proposed meso-scale approach. In developing
an adequate methodology for the evaluation it soon became
clear that scale in itself was not the only determinant of
success. The effect of geographical scale (or level) on WSD
is determined by the variation in other drivers that will
influenceWSDsuccess such as hydrological conditions, land
use and available institutional structures. How this should be
interpreted at different levels in the light of interactions
between biophysical and socio-economic scales is discussed
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2012
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5378/1/Hydrogeology_ournal_Confronting_2012.pdf
Syme, G J and Reddy, V R and Pavelic, P and Croke, B and Ranjan, R (2012) Confronting scale in watershed development in India. Hydrogeology Journal , 20 (5). pp. 985-993. ISSN 1435-0157