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Integrated Modelling For Understanding Watershed Development Impacts On Social And Biophysical Systems, Wendy Merritt, V. R. Reddy, K. V. Rao, Paul Pavelic, Shakeel Ahmed, Ram Ranjan, Barry F.W. Croke, Geoffrey J. Syme

Research outputs 2011

The intention of watershed development (WD) programs in India is to improve the livelihoods of people and preserve the natural resource base, particularly in areas where water scarcity limits the development potential of rural communities. In practice, there are many complications to implementing WD programs in an effective and equitable way for all people within and between villages in a catchment. Our understanding of the potential implications of a program is often limited by the way in which we investigate the biophysical-social-economic system. Two common failings are (a) not properly considering the importance of the place, scope and scale of …