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1 Gupta, A. K.. 1978. Engineering and cost estimates for pipe conveyance sprinkler distribution systems for a hypothetical 100 area tract in the Sone Command Area, Bihar. In Lenton, R.; Seckler, D., Choice of irrigation techniques under alternative physical and socio-economic conditions. (Paper presented at the Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, Kharagpur, 18-20 December 1978) 8p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.1 G635 LEN Record No: H04620)
2 Gupta, A. K.. 1995. Survival under stress: Socioecological perspectives on farmers' innovations and risk adjustments. In Warren, D. M.; Slikkerveer, L. J.; Brokensha, D. (Eds.), The cultural dimension of development: Indigenous knowledge systems. London, UK: Intermediate Technology Publications. pp.407-418.
Farming ; Risks ; Farmers ; Experiments ; Ecology ; Social aspects ; Households ; Agricultural production ; Traditional farming ; History / China / India / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 630 G000 WAR Record No: H025599)
3 Pandey, B. N.; Gupta, A. K.; Mishra, A. K.; Das, P. K. L.; Jha, A. K. 2000. Ecological studies on River Panar of Araria (Bihar) with emphasis on its biological components. In Trivedy, R. K. (Ed.), Pollution and biomonitoring of Indian Rivers. Jaipur, India: ABD Publishers. pp.130-147.
Rivers ; Ecology ; Water pollution ; Water quality ; Analysis ; Alkalinity ; Nitrogen ; Fertilizers / India / Bihar / Araria / River Panar
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 574.526323 G635 TRI Record No: H028418)
4 Pandey, D. N.; Gupta, A. K.; Anderson, D. M. 2003. Rainwater harvesting as an adaptation to climate change. Current Science, 85(1):46-59.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6322 Record No: H032185)
5 Pandey, R.; Kumar, P.; Archie, K. M.; Gupta, A. K.; Joshi, P. K.; Valente, D.; Petrosillo, I. 2018. Climate change adaptation in the western-Himalayas: household level perspectives on impacts and barriers. Ecological Indicators, 84:27-37. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.08.021]
Climate change adaptation ; Resilience ; Households ; Coping strategies ; Indigenous knowledge ; Planning ; Communication ; Barriers ; Rural communities ; Socioeconomic environment ; Agriculture ; Mountains ; Land degradation ; Ecological factors / India / Western Himalayas / Nainital
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048602)
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A vast amount of knowledge and experience on coping with climatic variability and extreme weather events exists within local communities, and indigenous coping strategies are important elements of successful adaptation plans. Traditional knowledge can help to provide efficient, appropriate and time-tested ways of responding to climate change especially in far-flung communities. However, little is known about how traditional coping strategies translate into adaptation to long-term changes, and to what degree they prevent pro-active, transformational responses to climate change. This paper assesses the use of climate related information for communities in the Himalayan foothills of rural India, and reports on the barriers to adaptation planning and actions. Surveys have been carried out to analyze the current practices and the role of information in planning for climate change adaptation in the rural areas of the Nainital region of India located in Western Himalaya. Respondents perceive the local climate change, the intensity of change, and the negative impacts on the community and landscape. Decreases in water quantity and changes in precipitation patterns are among the major concerns for respondents, however, communities have begun to use traditional knowledge and historical climate information for developing strategies suitable to cope with impacts of climate change. Going forward, additional information is needed to match the high priority community needs with viable adaptation strategies. Lack of money, lack of access to information, and lack of awareness or understanding are considered the three largest hurdles besides low priority for adaptation, recognized by community members as barriers to adaptation planning and actions. Adaptation plans must be integrated into both top-down and bottom-up approaches to plan for enabling sustainable development and the efficient use of information for adaptation. Finally, traditional knowledge seems to be useful not only in contrasting climate change impacts, but also in recovering several ecosystem services that work all together for enanching the quality of life of villagers at local scale.
6 Dey, A.; Singh, G.; Gupta, A. K.. 2018. Women and climate stress: role reversal from beneficiaries to expert participants. World Development, 103:336-359. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.026]
Climate change adaptation ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Food supply ; Human nutrition ; Sustainability ; Energy conservation ; Crops ; Varieties ; Villages ; Indigenous knowledge ; Models / India / Uttar Pradesh / Isoulibhari / Shivnathpur / Kharella
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048594)
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Women, especially in the marginalized communities of the high-risk regions prone to flood and drought are considered most vulnerable to climate change risks. They play a very important role in household nutrition management and resource management in terms of labor, off-farm products, and small savings. In the absence of help from formal and informal R and D and technology institutions, their knowledge and resources’ exchange system has to be very robust to cope with the seasonal shortages arising due to climate fluctuations. The study found that these exchanges, spilling over caste or class boundaries, serve as valuable informal safety nets and contribute to household resilience. Researchers seeking to strengthen community coping strategies should pursue such polices and institutional interventions which strengthen women’s resource exchange and exploitation mechanisms. We offer in the end a 4-E model involving exchange, expertise, ethics, and environmental consciousness which describes how these empower women and help in articulation of their unique coping strength at intra- and inert-community levels. Lateral learning among community members sustains and enhances over time collective and household coping strategies with climate risks.
7 Poonia, V.; Goyal, M. K.; Gupta, B. B.; Gupta, A. K.; Jha, S.; Das, J. 2021. Drought occurrence in different river basins of India and blockchain technology based framework for disaster management. Journal of Cleaner Production, 312:127737. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127737]
Drought ; River basins ; Blockchain technology ; Disaster risk management ; Climate change ; Meteorological factors ; Hydrological factors ; Precipitation ; Rain ; Soil moisture ; Vegetation / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050475)
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Drought assessment is crucial to mitigate its adverse impact, especially in India, where risk is more due to an increase in population and climate change. However, most of the studies deal with one or a couple of droughts and lack the interrelationship between all major drought types. The study investigates the spatio-temporal distribution of multiple drought types, individually and concurrently in India. Further drought trend analysis is performed based on their mean duration, mean spatial extent, and frequency. Moreover, the drought evolution process which explains the evolution of drought type into another type is also examined. Finally, a blockchain-based framework is proposed to improve the current drought risk management system to facilitate the drought fatalities to get their help and aid as soon as possible. Results demonstrate that hydrological and soil moisture droughts are observed to be more influential as compared to the other two drought types in most of the river basins of India. Further, it was found that 82% of concurrent droughts involve soil moisture drought in 16 out of 25 river basins. The present study facilitates a novel method to investigate drought from several perspectives over India, thus helps to provide important information for drought mitigation and adaptation strategies.
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