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Floods, Farmers, Vulnerability and Policy: What they want, what we give and what really happens?

Floods, Farmers, Vulnerability and Policy: What they want, what we give and what really happens?. By Dipak Gyawali Pragya, Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology Research Director, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition.

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Floods, Farmers, Vulnerability and Policy: What they want, what we give and what really happens?

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  1. Floods, Farmers, Vulnerability and Policy:What they want, what we give and what really happens? By Dipak Gyawali Pragya, Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology Research Director, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition

  2. Source: Moench, Dixit and Caspari, Rethinking the Mosaic, 1999

  3. Kulekhani Catchment 1993 Source: Ajaya Dixit, Basic Water Science, 2002

  4. Extreme Combination

  5. Kulekhani Sedimented Upper End

  6. 1993 Bagmati Barrage

  7. Source: Ajaya Dixit, Basic Water Science, 2002

  8. Source: Ajaya Dixit, Basic Water Science, 2002

  9. Sediment yield Designed 700m3/km2/year After 1993 floods 38095 m3/km2 1994 83333 m3/km2 Average (1981-1994) 12000 m3/km2/year

  10. Multiple definitions of what the problem is ! Bureaucracies Population - too many people - is the problem : solution is to manage it Population Climate Change Pricing Profligacy Markets Social Auditors Pricing is the problem: solution is to remove controls and subsidies Profligacy is the problem: solution is to reign in our greed

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