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Author Gautam, Dipendra, author

Title Water Management through Indigenous Knowledge
Published Hamburg : Diplomica Verlag, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (38 pages)
Contents Water Management through Indigenous Knowledge; Table of Contents; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Background of the Study; 1.2. Statement of the problem; 1.3. Objectives of the Study; 1.4. Conceptual of the frameworks; 2. LITERATURE REVIEW; 2.1. Theoretical Reviews; 3. RESEARCH METHODS; 3.1. Rationale of the selection of study area; 3.2. Research Design; 3.3. Nature and sources of data; 3.4. Universe and sampling; 3.5. Data collection techniques; 3.6. Reliability and validity of information; 3.7. Interpretation of Information; 3.8. Limitations of the study; 4. INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY OF WATER MANAGEMENT
4.1. Tun4.2. Hiti; 4.3. Pukhu; 4.4. Water Management through other Indigenous Practices; 5. JUXTAPOSITION OF INDIGENOUS FEATURES WITH SCIENTIFIC ASPECT; 6. CONTEMPORARY WATER SCENARIO; 7. CONCLUDING REMARKS; 8. RECOMMENDATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary Techno-Anthropological approach has been formulated in researching a traditional settlement of Bhaktapur City, Nepal. The practices of Indigenous people have been analyzed by juxtaposing the science along with the Indigenous technology. It has been significantly concluded that, the impetus behind the city sustainability is primarily the Indigenous knowledge and sometimes this knowledge is overwhelming to even the modern scientific aspects too. Indigenous technology of water management in the historic city of Bhaktapur has been also found to be significant not only in terms of supply rather in
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Subject Indigenous peoples -- Nepal
Intercultural communication -- Nepal
Water use -- Nepal
Indigenous peoples
Intercultural communication
Water use
Nepal
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783954897018
3954897016