Natural Resource Sustainability versus Livelihood Resilience: Model of Groundwater Exploitation Strategies in Developing Regions
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...…that mark shifts in natural ecosystems, though it also applies to humans and settlements that shift into new occupations and economic base industries (see Ranjan, 2012), or the adoption of land use policies that force development away from increasingly sensitive areas (Russell & Griggs, 2012)....
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...Ranjan (2012) presents a model representing farming in water-scarce regions of South India that addresses the problem of managing depleting groundwater assets with irreversible losses....
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...The main analysis that Ranjan (2012) used is focused on the issue of optimal groundwater harvesting strategy when additional drawdown of an aquifer increases the risk of groundwater loss but also forces the marginal farmer closer towards acquiring resilience....
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...Ranjan (2012) illustrates the use of the latter definition in which a hazard rate of groundwater loss is assumed to be a function of the groundwater level....
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...The main analysis that Ranjan (2012) Groundwater Resources Sustainability: Past, Present, and Future 4417...
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...When groundwater is completely depleted, the risk of no future revival is governed by the maximum possible hazard rate (Ranjan 2012)....
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...The contamination of groundwater and its quality degradation affect the farmers in terms of crop choice and availability of potable drinking water (Ranjan 2012)....
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