The Lower Damodar River, India: Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment

Interweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro—physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the Damodar’s lower reaches. While the Damodar River isn’t an exceptional tropical river, nor does it feature classic examples of river control structures, it is unusual and worthy of study due to the fact that nowhere else in the tropical world have riverine sandbars been used as a resource base as well ...