Flood management in India: A focussed review on the current status and future challenges

MP Mohanty, S Mudgil, S Karmakar - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite massive investments and continuous flood-control efforts in India, the socio-
economic damages and death toll continue to remain high. Undoubtedly, the process of …

Remote sensing of river corridors: A review of current trends and future directions

C Tomsett, J Leyland - River Research and Applications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
River corridors play a crucial environmental, economic, and societal role yet also represent
one of the world's most dangerous natural hazards, making monitoring imperative to …

Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change

Q Wu, L Ke, J Wang, TM Pavelsky, GH Allen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rivers are among the most diverse, dynamic, and productive ecosystems on Earth. River
flow regimes are constantly changing, but characterizing and understanding such changes …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impacts of current and future changes of the planforms of river Brahmaputra on its land use-land cover

J Debnath, D Sahariah, D Lahon, N Nath, K Chand… - Geoscience …, 2023 - Elsevier
River bankline migration is a frequent phenomenon in the river of the floodplain region.
Nowadays, channel dynamics-related changes in land use and land cover (LULC) are …

The natural sediment regime in rivers: Broadening the foundation for ecosystem management

E Wohl, BP Bledsoe, RB Jacobson, NLR Poff… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Water and sediment inputs are fundamental drivers of river ecosystems, but river
management tends to emphasize flow regime at the expense of sediment regime. In an effort …

Dynamics of ecosystem services (ESs) in response to land use land cover (LU/LC) changes in the lower Gangetic plain of India

S Talukdar, P Singha, S Mahato, B Praveen… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ecosystems provide a range of material as well as non-material services that contribute
to human well-being as well as supply necessary resources for the organisms. The land …

Shifting sands: assessing bankline shift using an automated approach in the Jia Bharali River, India

J Debnath, D Sahariah, A Saikia, G Meraj, N Nath… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bank erosion hazard is a frequent occurrence that poses threats to floodplain ecosystems.
This analysis examined changes to the Jia Bharali River channel in India using the GIS …

Mapping the effect of climate change on community livelihood vulnerability in the riparian region of Gangatic Plain, India

M Das, A Das, S Momin, R Pandey - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Indian Gangatic Plain is food basket of the country and vulnerable to variety of
factors. The western region of the Gangatic plain is worst affected due to river bank erosion …

Assessing channel changes of the Ganges-Padma River system in Bangladesh using Landsat and hydrological data

A Dewan, R Corner, A Saleem, MM Rahman… - Geomorphology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ganga/Ganges 1 is an important river system in South Asia which supports the
life and livelihoods of millions of people both in India and Bangladesh. The system has a …

Climate change effects on riverbank erosion Bait community flood-prone area of Punjab, Pakistan: an application of livelihood vulnerability index

D Ahmad, M Kanwal, M Afzal - Environment, Development and …, 2023 - Springer
Riverbank erosion incidence and consecutive flood disasters have increased because of
extreme climatic dynamics in the current couple of decades. Farming community livelihood …