Engineering a season of floods

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25 novembre 2019

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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amitacharya, « Engineering a season of floods », FLOWs, ID : 10.58079/os11

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"Pluralising water science" was again the theme of the first week of IHE Delft MSc academic programs. In his keynote talk Amitangshu Acharya questioned the colonial legacy influencing the contemporary season of dam constructions in India, and pointed at its consequences in terms of increased monsoon floods. The Gandak River in Bihar, India (Credits: Amitangshu Acharya) In 13 states of India this year, the monsoon appeared in the form of floods. The same happened in the Terai region of ...

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