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DOI	10.1007/s11069-020-04025-5
	Implementing Vetiver grass-based riverbank protection programmes in rural West Bengal, India
	Mondal S.; Patel P.P.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0921030X
起始页码	1051
结束页码	1076
卷号	103 期号:1
英文摘要	The largely impoverished rural communities of India are unable to bear the costs involved in creating and maintaining substantial structural measures for riverbank protection. The monsoonal nature of the country’s streams and an agrarian economy based on intensive cultivation further heighten the risk posed by annual peak flows and shifting stream courses. Mitigating this requires urgent, sustainable and cost-effective means of conserving valuable farmlands and stabilising channel boundaries. Towards this, riverbank erosion mitigation using Vetiver grass has been a recent development in the country and has been experimented with in a few areas. In this article, we examine how such riparian buffers are created through riverbank modification, planted and nurtured and the effectiveness of the grass in mitigating erosion, taking a small case study from rural West Bengal as an example. We especially focus on the government policies and frameworks and local stakeholder involvements that facilitate such an undertaking, with particular emphasis on the organisational workflow and the ground-level perception of such endeavours, as these are crucial to the success and effectiveness of such schemes. The marked successes achieved through the use of the Vetiver grass in abating erosion and the hindrances encountered in implementing such mitigation projects are outlined, along with the importance of such community-based approaches to river management and monitoring. This case study can be a microcosm for similar such endeavours, particularly in the rural global south. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
关键词	Bioengineering Ecogeomorphology Flood mitigation Riparian buffers Riverbank erosion Vegetation effects
英文关键词	bank erosion; grass; monitoring; river bank; river management; rural policy; India; West Bengal
语种	英语
来源期刊	Natural Hazards
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205841
作者单位	Department of Geography, Presidency University, 86/1, College Street, Kolkata, 700 073, India
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mondal S.,Patel P.P.. Implementing Vetiver grass-based riverbank protection programmes in rural West Bengal, India[J],2020,103(1).
APA	Mondal S.,&Patel P.P..(2020).Implementing Vetiver grass-based riverbank protection programmes in rural West Bengal, India.Natural Hazards,103(1).
MLA	Mondal S.,et al."Implementing Vetiver grass-based riverbank protection programmes in rural West Bengal, India".Natural Hazards 103.1(2020).