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The Lower Damodar River, India

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Abstract

Floods, once the basis for hydraulic civilizations, are now seen mostly as sources of hazard due to negative interaction between human systems and environmental conditions at particular historical junctures within specific economic and social conditions. The same phenomenon acquires a different dimension if seen rationally as an event with both possibilities as well as perils that one can plan for and guard against. In this study on the Damodar River, physical and human environmental research has been integrated, focusing on river morphology and ecology, human use of river and sandbars or char lands as a resource, and policies that shape a river. This leads us to a more holistic understanding of how the forms and ecological status of a river are shaped by the interplay of environmental and anthropological processes. In other words, this research reviews the impacts of control structures in the downstream environment and also provides a detailed study of human role in changing fluvial regime through descriptions of the way in which people, ranging from refugees to local settlers, driven by diverse cultural, economic, religious, and political forces, have transformed the fluvial landscape.

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    Cumec is a metric unit of measurement for water discharge. It stands for a cubic meter of water passing through any given point per second. There are 35.31 cusec to every cumec.

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    All types of sandbars are referred to as Char in Bengali. In Bangladesh Chars are locally known as Mana derived from Mohana which usually denotes a confluence of river and sea. The sandbars in the Damodar would have remained as uncultivable waste land had there been no population transfer between India and erstwhile Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) between 1947 and 1971 following Independence and Bangladesh war respectively (Bhattacharyya 1998, 1999–2000b).

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Bhattacharyya, K. (2011). Purpose and Perspectives. In: The Lower Damodar River, India. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0467-1_1

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