The role of transdisciplinary approach and community participation in village scale groundwater management: Insights from Gujarat and Rajasthan, India

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3386-3408

  Maheshwari, Basant ^a   Varua, Maria ^a   Ward, John ^b   Packham, Roger ^a   Chinnasamy, Pennan ^c   Dashora, Yogita ^d   Dave, Seema ^a   Soni, Prahlad ^e   Dillon, Peter ^b   Purohit, Ramesh ^d   Hakimuddin, ^e   Shah, Tushaar ^c   Oza, Sachin ^f   Singh, Pradeep ^d   Prathapar, Sanmugam ^c   Patel, Ashish ^f   Jadeja, Yogesh ^g   Thaker, Brijen ^g   Kookana, Rai ^b   Grewal, Harsharn ^a   Yadav, Kamal ^d   Mittal, Hemant ^d   Chew, Michael ^a   Rao, Pratap ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^d MAHARANA PRATAP UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA   (India)

^f Development Support Centre   (India)

^g Arid Communities and Technologies   (India)

Author keywords

Community engagement; Groundwater monitoring; Groundwater security; Managed aquifer recharge; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; RURAL AREAS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER MONITORING; GROUNDWATER PUMPING; MANAGED AQUIFER RECHARGES; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; TRANS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; OWNERSHIP; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RECHARGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VILLAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

GUJARAT; INDIA; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 84920931772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6113386     Document Type: Article

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