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

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...

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Published inThe Lower Damodar River, India pp. 227 - 237
Main Author Bhattacharyya, Kumkum
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.01.2011
SeriesAdvances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
Subjects
Anthropogenic
Flood
Flood control measures
Human ecology
Human-environment interactions
Hydro-geomorphic
Land use
Social space
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9400704666
9789400704664
ISSN:1879-7180
1879-7199
DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-0467-1_7