Experiences of Sufferings from Flood Hazard in Lower Damodar Basin, Eastern India – A Theorical Review

Lipika Mandal

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.23797

Experiences of Sufferings from Flood Hazard in Lower Damodar Basin, Eastern India – A Theorical Review

Author(s)	Lipika Mandal
Country	India
Abstract	Floods are recurrent phenomena in India from time immemorial. More than 520 million people are affected by flood per year in the world. Flood is the most frequent natural disaster that caused, and continues to cause, serious economic and environmental losses. Modern landscape ecology, with its emphasis on the interplay between spatial heterogeneity and ecological process, considers humans as one of the many important agents affecting landscapes, and emphasizes natural, semi-natural, and built landscapes. The degradation of the river basin ecosystems and its repercussions on human societies have emerged as major issues for India in this century. This region has a great number of river systems. Human interference in the form of dam building and other construction activities have affected river basin ecosystems, the flow dynamics of the rivers and the lives of the communities who dwell by the side of the rivers and, thus, can be seen as a component in river basin ecosystems. This study is based on a case study of the lower Damodar Basin in West Bengal, India. The River Damodar is known as ‘sorrow of Bengal’ for its frequent floods and related flood ravages. The hydro-meteorological condition of Lower Damodar Basin is dominated by monsoon confined to four months in a year. It explores issues such as the relationship between the river and the bank dwellers, how the bank dwellers perceive the man-made changes in the river regime, and to what extent they are involved in these changes. The main finding of the study is that, as the river has shifted its course, floods have changed physical and social landscape. This study addresses the risk from flood by examining the factors influencing local communities to adopt both structural and non-structural flood mitigation strategies in lower Damodar Basin, in Eastern India. This paper briefly describes the flood problems of lower Damodar basin, the magnitude of flood damages and outlines of important flood management practices.
Keywords	Chronic floods, Lower Damodar basin, landscape change, alternative cropping arrangements.
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 3, May-June 2024
Published On	2024-06-30
Cite This	Experiences of Sufferings from Flood Hazard in Lower Damodar Basin, Eastern India – A Theorical Review - Lipika Mandal - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 3, May-June 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.23797
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.23797
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gt3nct

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