Dynamics of Watershed Development and Livelihood in India

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Watershed development provides not only strong conservation support to natural resource but also to create new opportunities for households to diversify their livelihood strategies. Assessing the new opportunities arising from watershed development, it is important to consider the issue of the compatibility of watershed development with existing livelihood strategies. The importance of this is perhaps best illustrated by looking at migration, which is one of the most important means of diversifying rural livelihoods for the rural poor in India. It also involves the establishment of new institutions such as watershed committees; migrants–generally the poorest–are often absent from villages and so tend to be marginalized from decisions on resource use. Thus, watershed today is a means of income–earning based with a freedom of interaction between choices of the poor for development in a resource friendly manner.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.S.P. Sharma

Dr.S.S.P. Sharma is professor and head of the center for water and land management (CWLM) at NIRD. Dr. Sharma specializes in Environmental Economies and has participated in number of National and International Seminars and Workshops in India and abroad on subjects related to environment and water management. He has authored four books several research articles in National and International journals on the subjects related to environmental economics, watershed development and water management.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR U H Kumar

Dr. U. Hemantha Kumar is Assistant Professor in CWLR, at NIRD, Hyderabad.  He has many publications in referred Journals and the Books.  He has expertise in Environment Economics and Natural Resource Management.

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Title
Dynamics of Watershed Development and Livelihood in India
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8183873468, 9788183873468
Length
xxvi+307p., Tables; Figures; References; Index; 22cm.
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