Hydropower development and policies in India: A case of Himachal Pradesh in the northwestern Himalaya, India

Sharma, Sanjeev; Kuniyal, Jagdish Chandra

doi:10.1080/15567249.2011.633593

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“…5), India has around 48.22 million people living in the basin, accounting for 55% of the total basin population (Mahanta, 2014). The water resources potential of the Brahmaputra River is the highest among all river systems in India and accounts for 30% of Indian's total fresh water and 44% of India's total hydropower potential (Sharma & Kuniyal, 2016;Singh et al, 2004). All the provisioning, regulatory, supporting and cultural services from regulating the Brahmaputra River are extremely important for India (Table 4).…”

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Coalition and contradiction in managing Brahmaputra: Opportunities for more hydropower?

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Kamruzzaman

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Transboundary sharing of river water is not just an international problem, and it also cascades down to regional, state and local levels. Water cooperation in the Brahmaputra River basin among China, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh has long been contested. Better transboundary management of Brahmaputra requires a new direction from the current situation of fragmented cooperation, conflicts and disputes in the region and increasing threats of climate change. However, it is unclear how the four countries can cooperate and what the cornerstones for their cooperation might be. To explore possible consensus, we conducted an advocacy coalition assessment of the four countries based on the heterogeneous ecosystem services valued by each nation. While China and India are focused on politics, Bangladesh and Bhutan are primarily concerned about the basin in physical terms. Although each nation values the Brahmaputra in different ways, it is possible to initiate strong collaboration based on shared beliefs. We find that developing hydropower sustainably meets the needs and expectations of all nations, especially under the threats of climate change. A sustainable hydropower coalition can help to reduce carbon emissions, acquire green energy, irrigate land in dry seasons, and manage disasters and increasing runoffs from melting glaciers. We conclude our paper with insights for each nation and hydropower development as a whole that might help the nations to manage the Brahmaputra River more sustainably by overcoming their unmatched or mismatched values and interest, and achieving a win-win solution to manage the Brahmaputra River more sustainably.

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“…Jiang et al, 2017;Sharma & Kuniyal, 2016). For example, there has been a spurt of activity in identifying sites for 46 dams in the Brahmaputra basin in Assam, of which three are in various stages of operation and are expected to produce more than 2000 MW of power(Nayak & Panda, 2016).…”

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“…The maximum numbers of landslides were noticed along the River Satluj and their validation was done through the GPS survey. Steep slopes, high relief, number of structural discontinuities and underlying geology were combined with anthropogenic activities which decrease the stability of slope [18]. Steep and vertical slopes have high degree of landslides.…”

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Strategically Planning of Hydroelectric Projects for Reduce the Physical Vulnerability of Landscape in Upper Sutlej Valley, Western Himalayas, India

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2022

Geographic Information Systems and Applications in Coastal Studies

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Hydropower’s development in the Himalayas region is major concern because area is prone to the geo hazards. The high vulnerability of physical landscape pays attention on the planning of hydropower’s projects. This qualitative empirical research in western Himalayas, present the vulnerability of region and impacts of hydroelectric projects on physical landscape. The IPCC frame work of vulnerability assessment was used to assess the vulnerability in upper Sutlej valley. The indicator based methodology and Geographic information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing (RS) applications were adopted to highlight the impacts and vulnerability. The strategic buffering equal distance analysis was done and this indicates the ignorance of hydropower planning processes. The GIS mapping indicated the excessive development of hydroelectric projects in single river valley and strategic planning emphasizes to follow aerial equidistance between two projects while introducing hydropower projects in the Sutlej valley or any other valleys of the Himalayas region. The suggested strategy shall control the physical, social and economic losses in study region. In addition, this strategy will work as guidelines to develop hydropower projects in other valleys of the Himalaya.

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“…The ecosystem services and cultural resources of these areas are facing pressure beyond their carrying capacity. Some of the recent development by introducing hydropower development (Grumbine & Pandit, 2013; Pandit & Grumbine, 2012; Sharma et al, 2007; Sharma & Kuniyal, 2016), road construction, economic globalization, climate change and land-use change, agriculture development, urbanization (Kelly et al, 2013), increased the rate of environmental degradation and disturbed the mountain environmental sustainability and ecological balance of the regions (Bhatt et al, 2012; Pandit et al, 2014).…”

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Environmental Consensus and Systematic Spatio-temporal Analysis of Mountain Sustainability

Sharma,

Pandey

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The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal

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The mountain environmental systems are considered unique ecological and bio-physical systems which provide ecosystem services to the global community. It is observed that the rapid ecological changes and habitat destruction occur due to demographic changes, investment and introduction of various infrastructure development, and rapid harness of the available natural resources in the region. Such economic growth and recent environmental dynamics have engrossed the attention of the scientific community for comprehensive study. The focus of the present study is to understand the spatio-temporal consensus of the scientific community working on the mountain’s environmental sustainability. This study includes the bibliometric and network analysis of 1,384 research papers published on mountain sustainability and ecosystem in various journals. The analysis is performed on numerous essential research indicators such as open-access publication, number of citations, author team size, affiliated institutions and countries, publishing journals, research categories, and keywords. This article will provide an in-depth and holistic understanding of the issues and concerns related to global mountain environmental sustainability. The findings of the article will provide a scholarly platform for the development of stakeholders and organizational relationships working for mountain ecosystem sustainability.

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Hydropower development and policies in India: A case of Himachal Pradesh in the northwestern Himalaya, India

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Coalition and contradiction in managing Brahmaputra: Opportunities for more hydropower?

Coalition and contradiction in managing Brahmaputra: Opportunities for more hydropower?

Strategically Planning of Hydroelectric Projects for Reduce the Physical Vulnerability of Landscape in Upper Sutlej Valley, Western Himalayas, India

Environmental Consensus and Systematic Spatio-temporal Analysis of Mountain Sustainability

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