| DOI: | 10.1007/s11069-020-04025-5
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| 论文题名: | Implementing Vetiver grass-based riverbank protection programmes in rural West Bengal, India |
| 作者: | Mondal S.; Patel P.P.
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| 刊名: | Natural Hazards
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| ISSN: | 0921030X
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| 出版年: | 2020
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| 卷: | 103, 期:1 | | 起始页码: | 1051
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| 结束页码: | 1076
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 中文关键词: | Bioengineering
; Ecogeomorphology
; Flood mitigation
; Riparian buffers
; Riverbank erosion
; Vegetation effects
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| 英文关键词: | bank erosion
; grass
; monitoring
; river bank
; river management
; rural policy
; India
; West Bengal
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| 英文摘要: | The largely impoverished rural communities of India are unable to bear the costs involved in creating and maintaining substantial structural measures for riverbank protection. The monsoonal nature of the country’s streams and an agrarian economy based on intensive cultivation further heighten the risk posed by annual peak flows and shifting stream courses. Mitigating this requires urgent, sustainable and cost-effective means of conserving valuable farmlands and stabilising channel boundaries. Towards this, riverbank erosion mitigation using Vetiver grass has been a recent development in the country and has been experimented with in a few areas. In this article, we examine how such riparian buffers are created through riverbank modification, planted and nurtured and the effectiveness of the grass in mitigating erosion, taking a small case study from rural West Bengal as an example. We especially focus on the government policies and frameworks and local stakeholder involvements that facilitate such an undertaking, with particular emphasis on the organisational workflow and the ground-level perception of such endeavours, as these are crucial to the success and effectiveness of such schemes. The marked successes achieved through the use of the Vetiver grass in abating erosion and the hindrances encountered in implementing such mitigation projects are outlined, along with the importance of such community-based approaches to river management and monitoring. This case study can be a microcosm for similar such endeavours, particularly in the rural global south. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168640
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: | Department of Geography, Presidency University, 86/1, College Street, Kolkata, 700 073, India
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Mondal S.,Patel P.P.. Implementing Vetiver grass-based riverbank protection programmes in rural West Bengal, India[J]. Natural Hazards,2020-01-01,103(1)
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