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The economic impact of forest hydrological services on local communities: a case study from the Western Ghats of India [1]

This recent study by SANDEE examines the link between stream flow, agricultural water use and economic returns to agriculture. Attempts to simulate the likely impacts of regeneration of a degraded forest catchment on stream flow and the consequent impact on irrigation tankbased agriculture in a downstream village.

The conventional wisdom that

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
& et al [2], Sharachchandra Lele [3], Iswar Patil [4], Shrinivas Badiger [5]
SANDEE [6]
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Forests [7], Ecosystem Services [8], Western Ghats [9], Agriculture [10], Tank Irrigation [11], Watershed Development [12], Hydrology [13], India [14], Rainfall [15]
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