Including cultural water requirements in environmental flow assessment: an example from the upper Ganga River, India

Water International

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-96

  Lokgariwar, Chicu ^a   Chopra, Ravi ^a   Smakhtin, Vladimir ^b   Bharati, Luna ^c   O'Keeffe, Jay ^d  

^a People Science Institute   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Nepal)

^d RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

cultural flow component; environmental flows; Ganga; riparian communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890564259     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2013.863684     Document Type: Article

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