IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/rri/wpaper/2006wp02.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Participatory Watershed Management for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in India

Author

Listed:
  • Budumuru Yoganand

    (Department of Economics, Virginia Tech)

  • Tesfa Gebremedhin

    (Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University)

Abstract

International development goals moved beyond increasing food production to include poverty reduction and protecting the environment in a sustainable way. Degradation of natural resources due to exploitation coupled with population pressure in developing countries causing food insecurity and environmental degradation further. Participatory watershed management approach is proposed to address this problem effectively.

Suggested Citation

  • Budumuru Yoganand & Tesfa Gebremedhin, 2006. "Participatory Watershed Management for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in India," Working Papers Working Paper 2006-02, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University.
    • Handle: RePEc:rri:wpaper:2006wp02
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/rri_pubs/112/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Shah, Amita, 2005. "Watershed Development," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 60(1), pages 1-5.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hunggul Yudono Setio Hadi Nugroho & Markus Kudeng Sallata & Merryana Kiding Allo & Nining Wahyuningrum & Agung Budi Supangat & Ogi Setiawan & Gerson Ndawa Njurumana & Wahyudi Isnan & Diah Auliyani & F, 2023. "Incorporating Traditional Knowledge into Science-Based Sociotechnical Measures in Upper Watershed Management: Theoretical Framework, Existing Practices and the Way Forward," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-27, February.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. repec:rri:wpaper:200602 is not listed on IDEAS

    More about this item

    Keywords

    participatory watershed management; livelihoods; impact;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rri:wpaper:2006wp02. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Randall Jackson (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rrwvuus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.