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The Controlled Lower Damodar River: A Product of Hydro-Geomorphic and Anthropogenic Processes

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The Lower Damodar River, India

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The Lower Damodar should be culturally defined. Forms, processes and materials in the controlled section are generically quasi-natural in character. Social space of Bengali refugees has played a significant role in riverbed colonization and in subsequent land use practices. There is a strong linkage between changing geomorphic space and perceived environment. Land ownership rights are crucial factors in riverbed land utilization. The modified concept of human ecology helps in explaining land uses. There can be no a priori model for human-environment interactions. Human interaction with the environment depends on personal experience. The controlled Lower Damodar is a product of twin processes; quasi-natural hydro-geomorphic processes on the one hand and anthropogenic land-utilization processes on the other.

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Bhattacharyya, K. (2011). The Controlled Lower Damodar River: A Product of Hydro-Geomorphic and Anthropogenic Processes. In: The Lower Damodar River, India. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0467-1_7

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