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1 Partap, T.; Sthapit, B. (Eds.) 1998. Managing agrobiodiversity: Farmers' changing perspectives and institutional responses in the HKH Region. Kathmandu, Nepal: ICIMOD. 439p.
Natural resources ; Sustainability ; Environment ; Ecosystems ; Mountains ; Agricultural development ; Horticulture ; Farming systems ; Livestock ; Pastoralism ; Gender ; Women ; Crop production ; Erosion ; Rice ; Soyabeans ; Pest control / Nepal / India / China / Pakistan / Hindu Kush Region / Himalayan Region / Xinjiang / Hengduan Mountains / Hainan Island / Tiahang Mountains / Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau / Sichuan / Sikkim / Garhwal / Himachal Pradesh / Lahul Valley
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 574.5 G726 PAR Record No: H024457)
2 Raman, S. 2012. Potential of micro-irrigation in India: a statewise assessment. In Palanisami, Kuppannan; Raman, S.; Mohan, Kadiri (Eds.). Micro-irrigation: economics and outreach. New Delhi, India: Macmillan. pp.11-26.
Irrigation methods ; Microirrigation ; Sprinkler irrigation ; Drip irrigation ; Irrigated sites ; Crops / India / Andhra Pradesh / Arunachal Pradesh / Assam / Bihar / Chhattisgarh / Goa / Gujarat / Haryana / Himachal Pradesh / Jammu / Kashmir / Jharkhand / Karnataka / Kerala / Madhya Pradesh / Maharashtra / Manipur / Meghalaya / Mizoram / Nagaland / Orissa / Punjab / Rajasthan / Sikkim / Tamil Nadu / Tripura / Uttar Pradesh / Uttarakhand / West Bengal / Delhi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044864)
3 Sharma, Bharat; Riaz, M. V.; Pant, D.; Bhatt, B. P.; Rahman, H.; Martin, D.; Nelson, N. (Eds.) 2014. Improving rural livelihoods through land and water based enterprises in the northeast India. Final report. National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) – IWMI Livelihoods Project in the Northeast Region of India. New Delhi, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 53p.
Living standards ; Poverty ; Environmental effects ; Social aspects ; Indicators ; Water management ; Water use ; Water storage ; Land management ; Drip irrigation ; Households ; Income ; Participatory approaches ; Sanitation / India / Nepal / Nagaland / Mon district / Sikkim
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046305)
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046305.pdf
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4 Shrestha, Gitta; Joshi, Deepa; Clement, Floriane. 2019. Masculinities and hydropower in India: a feminist political ecology perspective. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1):130-152. (Special issue: Feminist Political Ecologies of the Commons and Commoning). [doi: https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.920]
Gender mainstreaming ; Women ; Political ecology ; Hydropower ; Gender equality ; Men ; Social aspects ; Human behaviour ; Risks ; Organizations ; Water institutions ; Public sector ; Private sector ; Case studies / India / Sikkim
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049290)
https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.920/galley/921/download/
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049290.pdf
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Mainstreaming gender in water governance through “how to do gender” toolkits has long been a development focus. It has been widely argued that such toolkits simplify the complex, nuanced realities of inequalities by gender in relation to water and fail to pay attention to the fact that the proposed users of such gender-water toolkits, i.e. mostly male water sector professionals, lack the skills, motivation and/or incentives to apply these toolkits in their everyday work. We adopt a feminist political ecology lens to analyse some of the barriers to reduce social inequalities in the management of global commons such as international rivers. Our findings highlight the leap of faith made in the belief that gender toolkits, as they exist, will filter through layers of a predominantly masculine institutional culture to enable change in ground realities of complex inequalities by gender. Analysing the everyday workings of two hydropower development organisations in India, we show how organisational structures demonstrate a blatant culture of masculinity. These two organisations, like many others, are sites where hierarchies and inequalities based on gender are produced, performed and reproduced. This performance of masculinity promotes and rewards a culture of technical pride in re-shaping nature, abiding by and maintaining hierarchy and demonstrating physical strength and emotional hardiness. In such a setting, paying attention to vulnerabilities, inequalities and disparities are incompatible objectives.
5 Joshi, Deepa; Platteeuw, J.; Teoh, J. 2019. The consensual politics of development: a case study of hydropower development in the eastern Himalayan region of India. New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, 5(1):74-98. (Special issue: Water Security and Inclusive Water Governance in the Himalayas)
Hydropower ; Development projects ; Political aspects ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Civil society organizations ; State intervention ; Climate change mitigation ; Policies ; Dams ; Social aspects ; Case studies / India / Eastern Himalayan Region / West Bengal / Sikkim / Darjeeling / Dzongu / Teesta River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049736)
http://www.nepalpolicynet.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/5_Joshi-et-al-2019.pdf#page=4
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049736.pdf
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Criticism and contestation of large dam projects have a long, strong history in India. In this paper, we analyze diverse civil-society responses to large dam projects in the Eastern Himalaya region of India, which has in the past decades been presented as a clean, green, climate-mitigating way of generating energy, but critiqued for its adverse impacts more recently. We draw our findings primarily based on interviews with NGOs involved in environmental and/or water issues in Darjeeling, interviews with those involved in a local people’s movement ‘Affected Citizens of Teesta’, and participatory research over the course of three years between 2015 and 2018. Our findings show how doing development for the state, the market and/or donor organizations compromises the ability of NGOs in the Darjeeling region to hold these actors accountable for social and environmental excesses. In the same region, dam projects in North Sikkim led to a local people’s movement, where expressions of indigeneity, identity and place were used to critique and contest the State’s agenda of development, in ways that were symptomatically different to NGOs tied down by relations of developmental bureaucracy. Our findings reveal how the incursion of State authority, presence and power in civil-society undermines the civil society mandate of transformative social change, and additionally, how the geographical, political, institutional and identity-based divides that fragment diverse civil-society institutions and actors make it challenging to counter the increasingly consensual politics of environmental governance.
6 Sharma, G.; Namchu, C.; Nyima, K.; Luitel, M.; Singh, S.; Goodrich, C. G. 2020. Water management systems of two towns in the eastern Himalaya: case studies of Singtam in Sikkim and Kalimpong in West Bengal states of India. Water Policy, 22(S1):107-129. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2019.229]
Water management ; Water resources ; Water supply ; Infrastructure ; Water springs ; Water governance ; Water scarcity ; Climate change ; Rain ; Drinking water ; Political aspects ; Case studies ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment / India / Eastern Himalaya / West Bengal / Singtam / Sikkim / Kalimpong
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049958)
https://iwaponline.com/wp/article-pdf/22/S1/107/651641/022000107.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049958.pdf
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This study examines the water supply systems, their sociopolitical dynamics, and the future of water management in two Indian towns in the Eastern Himalaya, Kalimpong in West Bengal and Singtam in Sikkim. The research was centred around issues of demand and supply, water scarcity and stress, equity, water governance, and the sustainable conservation and management of water resources in a climate change context. Methodologically based on surveys, focus group discussions, and key informants' interviews, this study finds that spring sources are drying alarmingly in Singtam, even as demand is increasing dramatically due to a floating population that is more than the number of local inhabitants. The town suffers from the lack of an adequate reservoir facility and the frequent damage of water supply pipes during the monsoon. Kalimpong faces acute water shortages all year round. The political tug of war between the state government agencies and the local government around the management and supply of water, declining water discharge in spring sources, the lack of water infrastructure for repair, maintenance, and supply, and the glaring inequity between the higher, middle, and lower income groups are the immediate issues around water in Kalimpong. The spring sources that supply drinking water to Kalimpong and Singtam need immediate conservation measures to arrest the declining state of discharge. Micro-planning at the local level, reviving drying springs, and the adoption of appropriate soil and water conservation practices on a watershed basis are all important ways forward. The development of water security plans and their strict enforcement through multi-institutional collaboration can contribute to improved water governance and socioecological restoration for sustainable water resources management.
7 Bordoloi, R.; Das, B.; Tripathi, O. P.; Sahoo, U. K.; Nath, A. J.; Deb, S.; Das, D. J.; Gupta, A.; Devi, N. B.; Charturvedi, S. S.; Tiwari, B. K.; Paul, A.; Tajo, L. 2022. Satellite based integrated approaches to modelling spatial carbon stock and carbon sequestration potential of different land uses of Northeast India. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 13:100166. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2021.100166]
Carbon sequestration ; Carbon stock assessments ; Land use ; Land cover ; Satellite imagery ; Landsat ; Vegetation index ; Regression analysis ; Biomass ; Climate change mitigation ; Forest cover ; Remote sensing ; Modelling ; Simulation / India / Arunachal Pradesh / Assam / Manipur / Meghalaya / Mizoram / Nagaland / Sikkim / Tripura
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050887)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665972721000672/pdfft?md5=2b0c924ff6ef3156dbcfe3c57e940f61&pid=1-s2.0-S2665972721000672-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050887.pdf
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The study aims to estimate and predict the aboveground biomass, carbon stock and carbon sequestration potential of different land uses of Northeast India and relate these estimates with the land use changes. Many applications such as carbon stock and sequestration monitoring, forest degradation monitoring, and climate change mitigation, require precise and timely estimation of forest biomass. Although traditional field inventory can reliably estimate forest biomass, remote sensing is emerging as an alternate and fast approach to cover larger area with relative precision for biomass estimation. In this study, a combined approach of field inventory and Landsat OLI derived vegetation indices were used in spatial modelling of aboveground biomass and carbon stock in different land uses. A stepwise multilinear regression algorithm was used to derive the model that used Landsat derived NDVI, SAVI and ARVI as predicators. The predicted AGB ranged from 14.32 to 185.95 Mg ha-1 with an average of 148.78 Mg ha-1. The developed model that used combined vegetation indices showed correlation of R2 = 0.79 with an RMSE of 51.04 Mg ha-1. The present study also applied the empirical model (CO2FIX) to simulate the future scenario of carbon stock and carbon sequestration potential of the different land uses. The carbon stock potential of different land uses were 182.31 Mg ha-1, 158.91 Mg ha-1, 134.98 Mg ha-1, 169.26 Mg ha-1, 133.84, 89.95 Mg ha-1, 128.3 Mg ha-1 and 61.36 Mg ha-1 in Tropical forest, Subtropical forest, Temperate forest, Tropical plantation, Subtropical plantation, Temperate plantation, Shifting fallows and Agricultural land, respectively.
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