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ID: 60705
Title: Pathetic Status of Wetlands in Bangalore: Epitome of Inefficient and Unco-ordinated Governance.
Author: Ramachandra T V, Asulabha K S, Sincy V, Vinay S, Bharath H Aithal, Sudarshan P Bhat, Durga M Mahapatra.
Editor: Dr. T V Ramachandra
Year: 2015
Publisher: EWRG, CES.
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: ENVIS Technical Report 93, June 2015
Subject: Status of Wetlands in Bangalore
Keywords: Status of Wetlands in Bangalore, Lakes of Bangalore city, Karnataka, Ecosystems.
Abstract: Wetlands (and lakes) constitute the most productive ecosystems with a wide array of goods and services. These ecosystems serve as life support systems; serve as habitat for a variety of organisms including migratory birds for food and shelter. They aid in bioremediation and hence aptly known as ' Kidneys of the Landscape ' . Major services include flood control, wastewater treatment, arresting sediment load, drinking water, protein production, and more importantly recharging of aquifers apart from aiding as sinks and climate stabilizers. The Wetlands provide a low cost way to treat the community ' s wastewater, while simultaneously functioning as wild fauna sanctuary, with public access. These ecosystems are valuable for education and scientific endeavours due to rich biodiversity.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: None
Literature cited 2: None

ID: 60704
Title: Ecological Significance of Sacred Forest Versus Non-Sacred Forest: A Case Study from Central Western Ghats
Author: Akhil C A, T V Ramachandra
Editor: Dr. T V Ramachandra
Year: 2015
Publisher: EWRG, CES.
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: MSc. Thesis
Subject: Ecological Significance
Keywords: Ecologica Significance, Sacred Forest, Non-Sacred Forest, Central Western Ghats, Karnataka
Abstract: Recent decades have witnessed much of global attention towards sacred groves, once globally practised conservation of forest patches by especially farmers from pre-historic periods. Due to various reasons, such practice faded away from the world. India continues to have many regions still rich in sacred groves, the Western Ghats being one such. Although the sacred groves in relation to biodiversity and culture are better studied, details on ecosystem services from them are a big necessity. The current study in the Karikan sacred grove of Uttara Kannada Western Ghats in Karnataka specially focuses on how this grove has a celebrated role in conservation history by sheltering a good population of dipterocarps of primeval forests, in all stages from saplings to large trees. The biomas and carbon sequestration services rendered are of high order, and also paving the way for regenration of several climax species including the unique dipterocarps. The high percentage of endemic vegetation that Karikan encompases is mainly on account of dipterocarps, notably Dipterocarpus inicus. This study also covers an adjoining secondary forest where D. indicus is entirely absent from saplings to trees. At the time most other species present in the grove are regenerating well here and a secondary climax has been attained. The biomas level is comparatively much poorer despite the secondary climax. This study, while acknowledging the importance of conservation of sacred groves, also highlights the need for application of ecological methods to distinguish climax forests from secondary climax forests which often grow in mosaic in the Western Ghats. This helps in understanding forest ecosystems for location-specific management regime
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Andrew, K.J. Application Development with GUI, Prentice Hall India Publishing, New Delhi, 2000. Arceivala, S.J. Wastewater Treatment for Pollution Control. Tata McGraw hill publishing company Ltd., New Delhi, 2000.
Literature cited 2: Benefield and Randall. Process Design for Wastewater Treatment, Prentice-Hall Publishers, 1980. Sharma, N.D. Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Activated Sludge Process, Post Graduate Thesis, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, S.V. National Institute of Technology Surat, (INDIA), 2004.

ID: 60703
Title: Performance evaluation of biological unit of sewage treatment plant.
Author: Neeraj D. Sharma and Jayesh A. Shah.
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 231-236, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: Sewage Treatment plant, performance Evaluation, Activated Sludge Process.
Abstract: The performance of sewage treatment plant is natural expectation from sustainable environment which is found frequently fluctuated in its own. There may be numerous reasons for such fluctuation and they may be rectified with necessary measures by inspecting various operations of sewage treatment plant ranging from macro level to micro level. But an essential element is to monitor the performance of sewage treatment plant which is nothing but the performance evaluation of sewage treatment plant. There are various methods available for the same but the present era needs fast computing techniques for the determination of such performance and computers are the best solution in such regard. This paper is an attempt in the direction of preparation of methodology which merely gives a tentative approach of performance evaluation of activated sludge process for small to medium scale sewage treatment plant.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Andrew, K.J. Application Development with GUI, Prentice Hall India Publishing, New Delhi, 2000. Arceivala, S.J. Wastewater Treatment for Pollution Control. Tata McGraw hill publishing company Ltd., New Delhi, 2000.
Literature cited 2: Benefield and Randall. Process Design for Wastewater Treatment, Prentice-Hall Publishers, 1980. Sharma, N.D. Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Activated Sludge Process, Post Graduate Thesis, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, S.V. National Institute of Technology Surat, (INDIA), 2004.

ID: 60702
Title: Seepage through slurry trench cutoff.
Author: P.K.Agale, Dr. S.S. Valunjkar and S.Y. Mhaske
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 224-230, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: Slurry trench cutoff generally used in the earth and rock fill dam as a seepage control measure as well as in irrigation and the hydraulic structures. In the present paper two dimensional steady state seepage analysis is carried out for the determina
Abstract: Slurry trench cutoff generally used in the earth and rock fill dam as a seepage control measure as well as in irrigation and the hydraulic structures. In the present paper two dimensional steady state seepage analysis is carried out for the determination of effectiveness of slurry trench cutoff as a seepage control measure. In the present study a system comprising of apron resting over heterogeneous soil strata along with slurry trench cutoff at centre is analysed by using finite element method introduced with Fortran 77 programming. The idealized section consists of twelve elements interconnected by twelve nodes. The result of present seepage analysis comprises of seepage potential, inflow and outflow at each node and also the value of exit gradient.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Cedegreen J.R.?Seepage, Drainage and Flow Net,? John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, 1967, pp. 184-204, 175-178, 273-280, 140-170. Harr M.E. ?Ground Water and Seepage,? McGraw Hill, New York 1962, pp. 249-264, 57-61.
Literature cited 2: Zienkiwicz O.C. ?The Finite Element Method in Engineering, ?McGraw Hill Book CO., London, 1972, pp. 5-78. Hans F.Winter Rorm, Kang Y.?Foundation Engineering Hand Book, ?Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975, pp. 29-40.

ID: 60701
Title: Fuzzy stochastic dynamic programming model for optimal policies of a multipurpose reservoir.
Author: R.U Kamodkar and Dr. D.G. Regulwar.
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 215-223, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: Optimization, Stochastic Dynamic Programming, Fuzzy, Reservoir Operation
Abstract: A major complicating factor in water resources system management is handling uncertainty. Reservoir management is one of the complex problems which include the uncertainty. Hence optimal operation of reservoir has been an active area of research for so many years. Various techniques have been developed and adopted in the reservoir operation, which has considered the uncertainly involved with the randomness of inflows and or demands. In the present study, Fuzzy Stochastic Dynamic Programming model is developed to decide operating policy for reservoir, namely Jayakwadi reservoir stage-I on the river Godavari in the state of Maharashtra. A basic concept of stochastic nature of inflows and development of Fuzzy Stochastic Dynamic programming model is explained. The Stochastic Dynamic programming model takes care of the stochastic nature of inflows into the reservoir while sigmoid membership function is taken for fuzzy objectives. This model (FSDP) is implemented to Jayakwadi Reservoir Stage-I to decide operating policy. From the results it can be seen that the both the irrigation and hydropower achieve more than 90 % satisfaction level.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Raman H. Vasudevan S. ?Optimal Reservoir Operation by Dynamic Programming.? J. Indian Water Work Association, 1991, pp 105-112. Marino M. A. and Mohammadi B. ?Reservoir Operation by Linear and Dynamic Programming,? J. Water Resources planning and Management, ASCE, 109 (4), 1983, pp 303-319.
Literature cited 2: Trezos T. and Yeh W. W-G. ?Use of Stochastic Dynamic Programming or Reservoir Management,? Water Resources Research, 23 (6), 1987, pp 983-996. Jothipraksh V. and Shanti G., ?Stochastic Dyanamic Programming Model for Optimal Policies of a Multipurpose Reservoir?, J. Indian Water Resources Society, 24 (4), 2004, pp 32-42.

ID: 60700
Title: Reuse of waste water a case study of Nanded city
Author: Arun W. Dhawale and U.D. Kulkarni
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 205-214, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: None
Abstract: It is estimated on a global scale that humans are now using over half (54 %) of the world ' s accessible supplies of renewable fresh water and that by the year 2025, three quarters of the world ' s renewable fresh water supply will be committed. With increasing demand for fresh water supplies, the use of treated wastewater is a feasible way to supplement the global water resources. It can be an economical and feasible proposition. In recent years, land application of treated municipal wastewater has been heralded as an alternative to treatment and direct discharge to waterways. Various degrees of pretreatment of wastewater are normally required before applying it to the disposal site. In India much greater attention must be paid on the treatment of wastewater, its reclamation and reuse, as this will go a long way to protect our ground water reserves while at the same time relieving our rivers from the burden of water pollution. This paper presents a case study of Nanded city for reuse of wastewater for irrigation. For selecting the best alternative wastewater treatment process on different cost small computer programme is developed in C language. Also for showing the increase in net benefits with wastewater linear programming model is formulated for selected study area.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Asano T. ?Planning and implementation of water reuse projects,? Water Sci-Tech-Jr-of-Int-Assoc-Pollut-Res-Control, 24 (9), 1991, pp. 1-10. Bouwer H.?Agricultural and municipal use of wastewater,?Water Sci-Tech-Jr-of-Int-Assoc-pollut-Res-Control, 26 (7), 1992, pp. 1583-1591.
Literature cited 2: Chhabra R. ?Forestry-A cure for sewage pollution?, AQUAWORLD, 1987, pp. 185-187. Cheng H. Chiang.?Regional panning for land application of wastewater?, Jr. of Water Pollut.Control.Fed: 49, 1977, pp. 2366-2379.

ID: 60699
Title: Effect of sand dredging on ground water table.
Author: Prakash T. Kadave and Vilas K. Patil.
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 182-189, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: None
Abstract: Mankind is facing serious problem of acute water shortage on planet earth. There are various factors, which are responsible for water shortage. Population growth is one of the biggest affecting factors. It affects balance between water availability and its use. Demand of water is increasing day by day but the available water supply is falling short. Therefore it is very necessary to store the available valuable water. The sources of water shall be preserved and protected. River is one of such source of water. Sand in the river has a great potential to hold a lot of water in its course and hence to maintain the ground water table. Sand available in the river bed helps to hold water for longer duration. But, the infrastructure development demands lot of construction material out of which sand is one of the major ingredient. This sand is made available from rivers. If dredging is done excessively it adversely affects the water holding capacity of sand in river. Trench filled with sand is representing the river bed without sand dredging and trench without sand represents the river bed after dredging of sand. The measured amount of water is poured in each trench daily and amount of moisture content in trenches is studied. Such study is carried out on different sand samples. This is studied for days together. River bed sand is also tested at room temperature to see that it hold water in the pore spaces. The results are represented with the help of graph in this paper. The results show that the presence of sand in the river bed holds ample water and helps to maintain ground water table.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Dr. Alam Singh, ?Soil Engineering (in theory and practice),?volume-1, CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2004.pp 25-30. Dr. R.B.Gupte, ?Engineering Geology,? Pune Vidyarthi Griha Prakashan, 2001.pp 34-46.
Literature cited 2: H.S.Nagabhushniah, ?Ground Water in Hydrosphere, ?First Edition, CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2002.pp 123-127. F.H.Lahee, ?Field Geology,? Sixth Edition, CBS Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, 2002.pp 47.

ID: 60698
Title: Experimental investigation into Aquifer parameter around Loni.
Author: V.M.Natraj, N.G. Nikam and S.D. Doke.
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 174-181, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: Groundwater, geological formation, aquifer, weathered, fissured rock, tube well, pump test.
Abstract: Groundwater is being exploited at rapid rate to meet the increasing demand. Groundwater occurrence, movement, depends on the geological formations forming the aquifers. The porous media comprising of fissured rocks, sandwiched between impervious hard rock is one group of geological formations found in confined aquifers. Loni, the study area comprises of top overburden soil crest, gravel, and weathered rock leading to fissured rock, which functions as flow media. The annual rainfall of 536 mm is barely sufficient to recharge the ground water sources. Seepage from the Pravara canal is the chief source of recharge. Shallow and deep tube wells, which fetch water invariably during various seasons is the chief source of water, which remain dry or supply meager to good yield with season, and flow in canal. Some of the wells in the area is reported to yield good quantity of water throughout the year and had been a perrineal source during the peak drought of 1972. Basaltic Dyke was observed during investigation. Pump tests are carried out to arrive at the aquifer parameters. The wells found on region of dykes showed a remarkable change in the water bearing characteristics in terms of Transmissivity, Storativity and radius of influence.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Adyalkar P.G. et al, ?Empirical methods for evaluating Hydraulic properties of basalt water table aquifer with capacity values? Indian Journal of Earth Science, 8, (1), 1981, pp. 69-75. Chandrashekar H et al; ?A Study of Interrelation between rainfall and fluctuation in ground water table in Bidar, part of karanja Basin? Bulletin No 148, publication of Mines and Geology.
Literature cited 2: Nagbhushaniah H.S.Exploratory tests suitable for aquifers of shallow depths, limited catchments of non homogenous character, A case study, proceedings of International symposium on Urban Hydrology, July 23-25 1985, University of Kentucky,Leninghton, U.S.A Narshima Murthy C. et al; Transmissivity and specific yield in basalt and laterite aquifer Bidar District ,Karnataka; a comparative study, Bulletin No. 200, 1979, Department of Mines& Geology, Bangalore.

ID: 60697
Title: Morphometric analysis of micro watersheds of Jhelum basin using GIS techniques.
Author: Dr. A. Q. Dar and Arif A. Banday.
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 167-173, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: None
Abstract: The hydrology of river channels is of vital interest to engineers, biologist and land managers. The quantity of water that will pass through a given channel is a function of the storm event (precipitation) and the watershed characteristics. Watershed characteristics of a basin represent physical and morphological attributes that are employed in synthesizing its hydrological response. However, the manual measurement of basin parameter is labour intensive and GIS can be very useful computer based decision support tool for the integration of spatial data from different sources and for the analysis, manipulation and display of these data. This powerful tool holds a very large potential in the field of regional and micro level spatial planning particularly in micro watershed planning and management. In this study morphometric analysis of one of the watersheds of Rambaira catchment of Jhelum basin has been carried out using GIS software-ArcView 3.2a the study area covers 14.13 km2 located between Latitude 33? 20`. The drainage network was delineated using remote sensing data geocoded FCC of bands-234 of 1c and 1D (LISS ? + PAN merged) on 1: 50, 000 scale and SOI topomaps were used as reference. It has been observed that watershed depicts positive relation between drainage density and stream frequency as the stream frequency increases with increase in drainage density.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Chow V.T. Handbook of Applied Hydrology. McGraw Hill Book Co., New York. 1966. Horton R.E. Erosional development of streams and their drainage basins, hydrological approach to quantitative morphometry. Bulletin of geophysical society of America, 1945.
Literature cited 2: Klingebiel A.A. and P.H. Montgomery. Land capability classification. Agricultural Handbook No. 210, Soil Conservation Service, USDA. 1961. Miller V.C, A quantitative Geomorphological study of drainage basin characteristics in clinch mountain area, 1953.

ID: 60696
Title: Correlation of morphometric parameters with permeability within micro watershed
Author: Mane Varsha P and Katpatal Y B
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 150-157, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: Drainage morphometry, drainage density, Stream frequency permeability, porosity, infiltration.
Abstract: Attempts have been made by several workers (Oyegoke and Ifeadi, 2007, Leopold and Miller 1956; Morisawa, 1959; Krishnamurthy et al. 1996) to workout the qualitative characteristics of basins with respect to the basin parameters. Studies starting relationships of the drainage morphometry with runoff and the drainage densities are available but studies with quantitative relationships of infiltration rates or permeability values with the drainage parameters are less more so with ground data. Remotely sensed images provide the information related to basin parameters especially soil and lithology which can be interestedly analyzed on GIS wherein coefficients rates may be estimated. The paper attempts to calculate drainage morphometric parameter of mini-watersheds under GIS environment. Correlation of drainage density with the coefficient of permeability has been carried out.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Ebisemiju F.S.?A reduced rank model of drainage basin morphometry,? Geografiska Annaler. Physical Geography, (61), 1979. Iware Matsuda. ?River Morphology and Channel Processes, In Fresh Surface Water? Ed. James C.I. Dooge], in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss publishers, Oxford, UK, 2004.
Literature cited 2: Oyegoke, S. O. and Chifumnanaya Ifead. Relationship between drainage basin: hydrogeological approach to quantitative morphology.?Bulletin of geological Society of America, (56), 1945, pp. 275-370 Horton R.E. ?Erosional development of streams and their drainage basin: hydrogeological approach to quantitative morphology.? Bulletin of geological Society of America, (56), 1945, pp. 275-370.

ID: 60695
Title: Impending water resource crunch-A case study of Mundra, Mandvi Talukas, Kachchh district-Gujarat.
Author: D.S. Modi
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 150-157, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: Kachchh-Mundra-Mandvi, semi arid climate, coastal aquifer, sea water intrusion, water management.
Abstract: This paper deals with the impending problem of water resource crunch in Kachchh District of Gujarat with special reference to Mandvi and Mundra Talukas. The influence of various parameters and controlling factors as well as hydrological data collected by various agencies and organizations during last three decades have been studied and evaluated. The results of these studies clearly indicate the depletion as well as deterioration of ground water resources. Efforts have been made to highlight the problem and suggest suitable remedial measures to mitigate it.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Biswas, S.K. Geology of Kutch, K.D.Malviya Institute of petroleum Exploration-Dehradun, 1993. District Census Handbook, Kachchh, Census of India, 1991, Director of Census Operation, Gujarat
Literature cited 2: HGEC 1998-Process of Desertification in Kachchh and Banaskantha District of Gujarat, India. Government of Gujarat-Report of the high-level Committee to examine the problem of Saline ingress along the Coastal Area of Kachchh, Nov: 1984, Irrigation Department, Gandhinagar.

ID: 60694
Title: Land and water resources management using Remote Sensing and GIS-A case study of hilly watershed.
Author: Santosh M. Pingale, H.C. Sharma, Deepak Khare, Mahesh K. Jat and Harish Chandra
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 142-149, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: landuse/and cover, remote sensing & GIS, land & water resources management.
Abstract: In the present scenario, integration of Remote Sensing and GIS is helpful in planning and management of land & water resources for adoption of location specific technologies. The socio-economic growth of a country depends primarily on continuing preservation and effective utilization of its natural resources. Therefore, an attempt has been made to develop and manages watershed by applying innovative technologies like remote sensing and GIS for better interpretation. Maun watershed of Tehri-Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, India has been chosen as the present study area which is located between 78? 22 ' 28? to 78? 22 ' 28? to 78? 24? 57? E longitude and 30? 17 ' 19? to 30 ? 18 ' 52? N latitude, covering an area of 871 ha. A special emphasis is laid on the development of action plan for land and water resources management mainly based on the land use/land cover, geomorphology, DEM, slope and aspect of the area. From the final output of the themes generated, water harvesting ponds are recommended in the study area to increase the ground water recharge and to control soil erosion.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Lal M. ?Climate change-Implications for India ' s water resources,?J India Water Resources Society, 21, 2001, pp. 101-109. Kumar R., Singh R.D. and Sharma K.D. ?Water resources of India,? Current Science, 89 (5), 2005, pp. 794-811.
Literature cited 2: IMSD, Technical guidelines, NRSA, Hyderabad, 1995.

ID: 60693
Title: Modeling Hydrologic impacts of climate change
Author: Dr. Subimal Ghosh
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 135-141, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: Climate change, General Circulation Model, Downscaling, Uncertainty.
Abstract: Climate change refers to any systematic change in the long-term statistics of climate elements (such as temperature, pressure, or winds) sustained over several decades or longer time periods. General Circulation Models (GCMs) are tools designed to simulate time series of climate variables globally, accounting for effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere resulting global climate change. Hydrologic implications of global climate change are usually assessed by downscaling appropriate predictors simulated by GCMs. Results from GCM simulations are subjected to uncertainties associated with selection of GCMs, scenarios and downscaling models. The present study focuses on developing methodologies to assess the hydrologic impacts of climate change accounting for the uncertainties associated with the ensemble generated with multiple GCMs. The model is applied to the case study of Orissa meteorological subdivision for projection of monsoon rainfall in the next century.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: IPCC ?Climate Change 2001. The scientific basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,? Ed. By and C.A.Johnson Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2001. Huth R. ?Sensitivity of local daily temperature change estimates to the selection of downscaling models and predictors, ?Journal of Climate, 17, 2004, pp. 640-651.
Literature cited 2: Jones P.D. Murphy J.M. and Noguer M. ?Simulation of climate change over Europe using a nested regional-climate model, I: assessment of control climate, including sensitivity to location of lateral boundaries, ?Q.J.R. Meteorological Society, 121, 1995, pp. 1413-1449. Wilby R.L., Charles S.P., Zorita E., Timbal B., Whetton P. and Mearns L.O. ?The guidelines for use of climate scenarios developed from statistical downscaling methods?. Supporting material of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), prepared on behalf of Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impacts and Climate Analysis (TGICA). 2004.

ID: 60692
Title: Fully fuzzified linear programming with an application.
Author: S.A.Choudhari and Dr. P. Anand Raj.
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 125-132, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: fully fuzzified linear programming, fuzzy numbers, linear ranking function
Abstract: In this paper the fully fuzzified Linear Programming (FFLP) is tried where all the parameters are fuzzy numbers including the decision variables also. The problem is solved by using the linear ranking function which defuzzifies the FFLP. Where the data imprecise the FFLP is powerful tool. This paper includes the formulation of FFLP problem and the solution with ranking function. The small numerical from water resources field is taken for the demonstration of the methodology.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Bellman R.E. and Zadeh L.A. ?Decision-making in a fuzzy environment?, Management Science 17, 1970, pp. 141-164. Bortolan G. and Degani R. ?A review of some methods for ranking fuzzy subsets,? Fuzzy Sets and System, 15, 1985, pp. 1-19.
Literature cited 2: Tanaka H., Guo P.and Zimmermann H. -j., ?Possibility distributions of fuzzy decision variables obtained from possibilistic linear programming problems?, Fuzzy sets and systems, 113, 2000, pp. 323-332. Tanaka H. Asia K. ?Fuzzy solution in fuzzy linear programming problems,?IEEE Trans. System Man Cabernet, 14, 1984, pp. 325-328.

ID: 60691
Title: Participatory irrigation management-A new paradigm towards achieving better performance of an irrigation command.
Author: Ms. Samta Shah and Dr. H.J. Dalwadi.
Editor: Dr.D.G.Regulwar, Dr.K.A.Patil, Dr.U.J.Kahalekar, Dr.P.A.Sadgir.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Excel India Publishers
Source: Centre for Ecological Sciences
Reference: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management, 118-124, June (2008)
Subject: Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management
Keywords: Drainage-PRA, PIM, WUA-, performance evaluation parameters, agriculture productivity, financial performance, environmental impact, Adequacy and Equity of water distribution-socio-economical aspects, productive efficiencies.
Abstract: This paper summarizes the performance indicators currently used in the Research program on Irrigation Performance (RPIP). Within this program field data are measured and collected to quantify and test about efficiency, maintenance, and sustainability of irrigation, environmental aspects, socio-economics and management of an irrigation command. The indicators now are sufficiently mature to be recommended for use in irrigation and drainage performance assessment. Many expert research activities reveal the consequences of type of irrigation management practices affecting the overall efficiency of an irrigation command. The management practice having better results at a particular irrigation command may not work under different irrigation environments like different geographic locations, climatic conditions, at different cropping pattern, and different geographic locations, climatic conditions, at different cropping pattern, and different socioeconomic environments. The present Paper tries to touch a new perspective of vision towards evaluating irrigation command by viewing into its management and trying to develop a new vision towards adapting suitable irrigation management and achieve higher performance of an existing irrigation setup. The study can be mixed nature having the mathematical modeling of performance parameters and field survey o management practices and highlights the recommendations towards achieving better output by changing the governance. The paper only discusses the aspects of participatory irrigation management and parameters to be evaluated for commenting on its appraisal for efficiency of that system.
Location: T E 15 New Biology Building.
Literature cited 1: Anita K.Prakash; V. Muralikrishna, P.K.Mishra and R.V.R.R.K.Chalam, ?Deciding Alternative land use options in a watershed using GIS?. Journal of Irrigation and drainage engineering, 2007. Desai ,N.B., Gulati O.T., Rathod K.G., The Mahi Right bank canal project, performance details, Mahi Irrigation circle, Nadiad, Gujrat, India, 1994.
Literature cited 2: Abernethy, C.L., ?Indicators of the performance Evaluation of Irrigation Systems, International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI), Colombo, 1989. Abernethy, C.L., Pearce, G.R., Research needs in third world irrigation, Hydraulics Research Limited, Wallingford, UK 1987.