The economic impact of forest hydrological services on local communities: a case study from the Western Ghats of India

  • 31/10/2008

  • SANDEE

This recent study by SANDEE examines the link between stream flow, agricultural water use and economic returns to agriculture. Attempts to simulate the likely impacts of regeneration of a degraded forest catchment on stream flow and the consequent impact on irrigation tankbased agriculture in a downstream village.
The conventional wisdom that