(Proceedings of the third International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, Bochum, Germany, September 2006. IAHS Publication 317, 2007, pp. 263)
This paper presents an analytical framework that helps in understanding the different aspects and elements of sustainable watershed management and their interactions. For a watershed project to be sustainable, four groups of criteria should be considered related to natural resources, technology, institutions and economics, respectively. A suitable metaphor for these four elements is a chain of shackles, the chain being as strong as the weakest shackle. This framework has been illustrated with two case studies in Kerala, South India.
Conceptual framework, India, Sustainability, Watershed
