Sayhadri Conservation Series 45  
ENVIS Technical Report: 82,  November 2014

Water Scarcity in Varada Catchment: Need to arrest Deforestation on Priority

Ramachandra T.V.                Subash Chandran M.D..                Vinay S                Bharath H. Aithal              

Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
 
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