Vulnerability and damage to the mountain ecosystem of Uttarakhand by shortcomings of development projects

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment Pub Date : 2019-01-04 DOI:10.1504/IJEWE.2019.10018230

Huong Ha, Yogesh Raghunathrao Jadhao

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Abstract

The 2013 flood disaster in Uttarakhand has drawn much attention to the role of hydropower projects in economic development, and also in environmental degradation. The objectives of this paper are to (i) identify how the hydropower projects have contributed to environmental damages of villages/towns in Uttarakhand state, India, using Ukhimath block, Rudraprayag district as a case study; and (ii) identify the challenges pertaining to hydropower projects related issues that Uttarakhand has faced. Primary data were collected through interviews with 144 households, and ten focus groups discussions in ten villages in Ukhimath block. Content analysis and triangulation method were used to analyse the collected data. The findings reveal that what happened in 2013 could not be ascribed only to heavy rain, assumptive cloud burst or overflowing of Gandhi Sagar Lake, but it was unplanned development projects which contributed to creating extreme vulnerability and increasing disaster risk to the local residents.

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开发项目缺陷对北阿坎德邦山区生态系统的脆弱性和破坏

2013年北阿坎德邦的洪水灾害引起了人们对水电项目在经济发展和环境退化中的作用的高度关注。本文的目的是：（i）以Rudraprayag区Ukhimath区块为案例研究，确定水电项目如何对印度北阿坎德邦的村庄/城镇造成环境破坏；以及（ii）确定与北阿坎德邦水电项目相关的问题所面临的挑战。通过对Ukhimath区块10个村庄的144户家庭和10个焦点小组的讨论收集了初步数据。采用内容分析法和三角测量法对收集到的数据进行分析。调查结果表明，2013年发生的事情不能仅仅归因于暴雨、假定的云层爆发或甘地萨加尔湖泛滥，而是计划外的开发项目造成了当地居民的极端脆弱性和增加了灾害风险。

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