Sreeja Et Al 2015

Question 1

What does this study address?

Answer 1

The challenges involved in integrating the coastal zones into the Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) framework, especially in developing countries such as India

Question 2

How is the diverse, densely populated areas in the river basins and their coastal watersheds in the west coast of India delineated?

Answer 2

Multiple high resolution data sets.

Question 3

What case study is used?

Answer 3

One of the Western Coastal tracts to identify the boundaries considered for delineation.

Question 4

What restricts understanding in undertaking a strict hydrological delineation in the study region?

Answer 4

The ambiguities of the coastal drainage and flood plain boundaries due to the cross lineages that exist with neighbouring estuaries, the multitude of small independent coastal catchments and asymmetries between surface and ground water.

Question 5

In addition to natural boundaries what are the boundary concerns for sustainable coastal management ?

Answer 5

Administrative / political units, coastal management frameworks, resource dependencies and livelihoods.

Question 6

What is essential to take into account within the river basin regime for resource sharing and legitimate interventions in upstream basin decisions that jeopardise the coastal ecosystem?

Answer 6

Taking multiple boundary of the coastal zone into account that range from ecological to political to be an effective management and governance unit.

Question 7

What are currently excluded fro, basin based resource allocation decisions?

Answer 7

The coastal reaches have been excluded due to the a,big unities in coastal boundaries of river basins. Such exclusions have led to over exploitation of resources, random resource allocation, unregulated reclamation & lack of stakeholder rights in basin related development processes.

Question 8

What is a result of basing the coastal basin boundaries on multiple considerations?

Answer 8

Ensures the share of coastal tracts in concerned basin / basins resource allocations

A certain that the environmental and social impact assessments and restoration efforts are extended to the coastal regions also

Adhere to the principle of subsidiary (local level) to ensure stadholder involvement

Question 9

What will ICM never be complete without?

Answer 9

Without the inclusion of the ‘tail end’ coastal reaches in the territorial and governance considerations of river basins.