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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Brahmaputra River"”.
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Tectonic-erosion interactions : insights from the paleo-drainage of the Brahmaputra River
… the eastern Himalaya through the study of paleo-Brahmaputra deposits in the foreland basin. Sediment depositional dating of two sedimentary sections is performed using magnetostratigraphy, apatite fission-track and luminescence dating. Provenance analysis using zircon and apatite U-Pb dating …
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Suffering for Land: Environmental Hazards and Popular Struggles in the Brahmaputra Valley (Assam), India
<p>The twin processes of flooding and riverbank erosion have over the years re-shaped the Brahmaputra Valley landscape in the northeast Indian state of Assam. While flooding and erosion have always been part of the natural landscape of the valley, they have now turned disastrous causing …
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Floodplain Resource Management: An Economic Analysis of *Policy Issues in Bangladesh
… agriculture and fisheries production in the Brahmaputra river basin of Bangladesh, where both sectors are simultaneously affected by floodplain development policies. Our goal is to study the impact of development policies on these two sectors and to identify key factors that affect the …
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Adsorption–Desorption Reactions in the Weathering Zone: Implications for Silicate Weathering & the Carbon Cycle
… reaction products (solutes) transported by large rivers. However, this approach may overlook ions chemically bound to the surfaces of sediments, which can be significant in highly erosive regions. To better understand the contribution of the adsorbed phase to chemical weathering budgets, a …
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Disclose river morphodynamics processes through experiments
Rivers’ behavior is increasingly of interest to wide engineering and scientific communities. In fact, fluvial dynamics have an impact on infrastructure and anthropic environments as well as on natural habitats. In addition, the economic values of river as routes of commerce is great, as is the …
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An examination of the South Asia Water Initiative and associated donor-led processes in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed
… and cooperation. The portion of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna mega-basin that is shared between Nepal, Bhutan, northern India, and Bangladesh is one of the poorest, most densely populated, ecologically vulnerable, and socially and politically unstable in the world. It is possible that water …
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An examination of the South Asia Water Initiative and associated donor-led processes in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed
… and cooperation. The portion of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna mega-basin that is shared between Nepal, Bhutan, northern India, and Bangladesh is one of the poorest, most densely populated, ecologically vulnerable, and socially and politically unstable in the world. It is possible that water …