Changing paradigms of river valley settlements- krishna River Valley

Sathish, S. (2012) Changing paradigms of river valley settlements- krishna River Valley. International Journal of Social Science and Interdisciplinary Research, 1 (7). ISSN 2277 3630

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Abstract

Very first settlement after adaption of agriculture was around rivers. These river valley settlements have definite birth and extinction by various factors. They are the early settlements and starting point of urbanization. Any urbanization attracts migration due to opportunities created by social grouping. Tracing of Historical development in these settlements give clear picture of urbanization process. They also become places of study for human achievements in terms of architecture, urbanization, social, political and economic developments. Conserving these precincts for posterity becomes the prime necessity. These settlements are ignored in developmental process. Water conservation and distribution of scarce resource lead to complexities indecision making in projects. Frequent floods impacts on normal life. Planning in river valley, calls for addressing developmental process in multi layers of decision making involving various specialized agencies. Government needs advice on these issues by past experiences in similar situations. An attempt is made to understand these forces for conducive developmental process in changing times. Krishna valley region is chosen as it experiencing rapid migration tendencies and change of climatic conditions along with changing river course due to soil erosion and levels of water courses. This article Concludes in organizational and strategic decision making systems for positive development and conservation of settlements of historic value

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	I Institute of Development Studies > IDS
Divisions:	Department of > Institute of Development Studies
Depositing User:	C Swapna Library Assistant
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2019 09:31
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2019 09:31
URI:	http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/6856

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