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Streamflow-based watershed resilience assessment in a tropical savannah region of India

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  • Lingaraj Dhal

    (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)

  • Mitthan Lal Kansal

    (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)

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Watersheds are vital dynamic natural systems with varying climatic, hydro-geologic and land-use and land-cover conditions. Hence, the resilience assessment of watersheds is a cumbersome task and imperative for natural resources managers. The study of watershed resilience necessitates a large amount of data, time and process-based modelling approaches. To address this problem, the study put forward a framework for the watershed resilience assessment based on the changes and the signal given by the watershed during the transition from one state to another. Streamflow is considered the key parameter for the assessment of watershed resilience, which is the response of watersheds to hydro-climatic conditions and anthropogenic activities inside the watershed boundary. The proposed framework is demonstrated with the help of watersheds of the Budhabalanga River basin in the Odisha state of India. The study revealed that the flow of the Budhabalanga River is highly influenced by the hydro-climatic conditions as well as land-use and land-cover, which has varied due to various anthropogenic activities. The upstream area of the river basin is found to be more resilient compared to other parts. Further, the streamflow at the three stations, namely Baripada, Manitri and Govindpur, in the Budhabalanga River basin shows potential for critical transition or even possible drift towards a lower resilience condition after 2013. The study illustrates the usefulness of the framework to study watershed resilience where time and availability of data are key issues for studying the resilience of watershed systems through an integrated hydro-climatological and ecosystem model.

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  • Lingaraj Dhal & Mitthan Lal Kansal, 2024. "Streamflow-based watershed resilience assessment in a tropical savannah region of India," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 26(2), pages 4245-4267, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:26:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1007_s10668-022-02882-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-022-02882-7
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