Rethinking rehabilitation: socio-ecology of tanks in Rajasthan,north-west India |
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| Affiliation: | 1. International Water Management Institute, Colombo, P.O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka;2. Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560 072, India;1. Department of Environmental Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central) University, Lucknow 226025, Uttar Pradesh, India;2. Eco-Auditing Group, CSIR—National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India;1. Low Carbon Resilient Development Program USAID/USFS, Bogotá, Colombia;2. Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH 03264-1595, United States;3. Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321, United States;4. U.S. Geological Survey, Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321, United States;1. Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1304 Pine Street, 203 Pine Building, Rolla, MO 65409, USA;2. Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 325 Butler-Carlton CE Hall, Rolla, MO 65409, USA;3. Structural Engineer, A & A Consultants Inc., 707 Emlin St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA |
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| Abstract: | In the arid and semi-arid Indian state of Rajasthan, tanks and ponds have been a mainstay of rural communities for centuries. This paper assesses a rehabilitation strategy proposed for 1200 large tanks. It argues that treating tanks only as flow irrigation systems is very likely to result in a flawed strategy. As the experience of NGOs work shows, Rajasthan's tanks belong more to the watershed development domain than to the irrigation domain and a strategy that views tanks as multi-use socio-ecological constructs, and which recognizes varied stakeholder groups is more likely to enhance the social value of tanks. |
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