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1 Lele, S.; Srinivasan, V; Thomas, B. K.; Jamwal, P. 2018. Adapting to climate change in rapidly urbanizing river basins: insights from a multiple-concerns, multiple-stressors, and multi-level approach. Water International, 43(2):281-304. (Special issue: Climate Change and Adaptive Water Management: Innovative Solutions from the Global South). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1416442]
Climate change adaptation ; River basins ; Urbanization ; Households ; Resilience ; Frameworks ; Water quality ; Public health ; Water supply ; Upstream ; Downstream ; Watersheds ; Agriculture ; Equity ; Sustainability / India / Cauvery River / Arkavathy Sub-Basin / Noyyal Sub-Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048593)
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Much of the research on climate change adaptation in rapidly urbanizing developing regions focuses primarily on adaptation or resilience as the goal, assumes that climate change is the major stressor, and focuses on the household or the city as the unit of analysis. In this article, we use findings from two rapidly urbanizing sub-basins of the Cauvery River in southern India (the Arkavathy and Noyyal sub-basins) to argue for a broader analytic and policy framework that explicitly considers multiple normative concerns and stressors, and uses the entire watershed as the unit of analysis to address the climate–water interaction.
2 Patil, V. S.; Thomas, B. K.; Lele, S.; Eswar, M.; Srinivasan, V. 2019. Adapting or chasing water?: crop choice and farmers’ responses to water stress in peri-urban Bangalore, India. Irrigation and Drainage, 68(2):140-151. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2291]
Water stress ; Irrigated farming ; Farmers attitudes ; Crops ; Periurban areas ; Groundwater ; Boreholes ; Ownership ; Urbanization ; Living standards ; Villages ; Econometric models / India / Bangalore / Arkavathy Sub-Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049210)
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Unregulated groundwater extraction has led to declining groundwater tables and increasing water scarcity in the Indian subcontinent. Understanding how farmers respond to this scarcity is important from multiple perspectives—equity in access, livelihood security and resource sustainability. We present a case from the rapidly urbanizing Arkavathy sub-basin near Bangalore city in southern India where irrigation is fully groundwater dependent. Using cross-sectional data from a stratified random sample of 333 farmers from 15 villages, we investigated the factors that determine their choice of crops under conditions of water scarcity and urbanization. Binary logit analysis showed that farmers with a large landholding respond by tapping deep groundwater using borewells. Multinomial logit analysis revealed that access to groundwater, variation in the proximity to the product market (city) and labour availability influence crop choice decisions. We observe that current responses indicate what has been characterized in the literature as chasing strategies. These largely favour well-off farmers and hence are inequitable. While the choice of water-intensive crops and unregulated pumping have aggravated water stress, the uptake of watersaving technologies among irrigated farmers has been low, showing that resource sustainability may not be a concern where non-farm diversification opportunities exist.
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