Publications

A. Books

1. Bhattacharyya, K. 2011. The Lower Damodar River: Understanding the human role in changing fluvial environment. In: M. Nusser (Ed.): Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research 308 pp, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, & New York: Springer.

2. Singh, V and Khedun, C. 2014. Review of The Lower Damodar River, India: Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment by Kumkum Bhattacharyya. J. Hydrol. Eng., 19 (3), 664-665.

3. Bhattacharyya, K. and Singh, V. P. 2019. Reservoir Sedimentation: Status and Environmental Controls, 342 pp, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York.

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Book chapters

Bhattacharyya, K and Wiley, M. J. 2014. Dams, riparian settlement and threat of climate change: A Case Study of the Damodar River, India, In: M. Nusser, (Ed.): Large Dams in Asia: Contested Environments Between Hydro-Power and Resistance. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research 2: 75-100, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, & New York: Springer.

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Dams and riparian settlement and threat of climate change-Damodar River

C. Presentation of papers / Invited talks / Abstracts

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1. Bhattacharyya, K. Reservoir Sedimentation: A Case Study. Paper Presented at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2016 Annual Meeting, March 29-April 2, San Francisco, CA.

2. Bhattacharyya, K. and Sarkar, A. Land use and land Cover (LULC) Change Detection in the Damodar Region-A Participatory GIS Perspective, Paper Presented at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2015 Annual Meeting, April 21-25, Chicago, IL./h5>

3. Bhattacharyya, K. Change detection and mapping of the land use/land cover (LULC) changes. Abstract at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2014 Annual Meeting, April 8-12, Tampa, FL.

4. Bhattacharyya, K. Inhabitation and Utilization of Damodar Riverbed and Sandbars, paper session on a special symposium focused on research advances and needs in the geographical dimensions of land systems and land change. Paper Presented at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2013 Annual Meeting, April 9-13, Los Angeles, CA.

5. Bhattacharyya, K. Chars (Sandbars) and Flood adaptation: Riparian Communities in the Lower Damodar River (Eastern India), Abstract at paper session on Water and Human Well-being: Case Studies from Asia. Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2011 Annual Meeting April 14-19, Seattle, WA.

6. Bhattacharyya, K. The Lower Damodar River: The human role in changing fluvial environment. Invited lecture 2011 at School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April, 2011.

7. Bhattacharyya, K. After six decades of Dam operation: A case study of the Damodar River, India. Paper Presented at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2009 Annual Meeting, March 22-27, Las Vegas, NV.

8. Bhattacharyya, K. Managing river resources: A case study of the Damodar River, India, (Abstr), AGU: American Geophysical Union 2008, 15-19 Dec, 2008.

9. Bhattacharyya, K. Impacts of Dams on the Damodar River, paper presented at the conference organized by Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), DVC Tower, Kolkata, Feb 5, 2005.

10. Bhattacharyya, K. Downstream effect of dams on alluvial rivers: A Case study in India. Invited lecture-2002 at River meeting, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Nov, 2002.

11. Bhattacharyya, K. Floods: resource or hazard-A case in the Lower Damodar River, India, (Abstr). Abstract at the International Water History Association (IWHA), 2001, Centre for development studies (CDS). University of Bergen, Norway, August 10-12.

12. Bhattacharyya, K. Human perception and adjustment in the riverine sand bars: a case study of the Lower Damodar River, India, Paper presented at the 4th International conference of Geomorphologists, organized by University di Bologna in Bologna, Italy, 1997, 28 Aug-3 Sep, page 79.

13. Bhattacharyya, K. Short-term vs. long-term impacts of river control structures on a flood-prone tropical river- a study in the upper sector of the lower Damodar, a subsystem of the Ganga River, India, Paper presented at the 3rd Southeast Asian conference of the International Association of Geomorphologists, Organized by the National University of Singapore & Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1995, 18-23 June, page 31.

14. Basu, M., Dhara, S. & Bhattacharyya, K. On methodological issues in natural disaster research, Paper presented at the National Colloquium on Human Response to Natural Hazard, The Geog. Soc., India, Calcutta: 1995, pages 22-23.

15. Bhattacharyya, K. Water resource management in flood-prone watershed region of micro-order- a case study of Kaliaghai-Kangsabati watershed, Paper presented at the conference Organized by the Indian Geographical Foundation 1994, pages 66-73.

16. Bhattacharyya, K. Human response and land use characteristics in flood prone sandbars of the Damodar, (Abstr.), Abstr. National Geographical Conference of the National Geographical Association 1992, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

17. Basu, M. and Bhattacharyya, K. Flood disaster reduction measures in the Lower Damodar, West Bengal, India, (Abstr), Abstr. International symposium of Flood Disaster Reduction in Southeast Asia 1991, Organized by Waseda University, Tokyo, Nov, 10-11.

18. Bhattacharyya K. From hazard to resource. Paper presented at the 78th Session of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), held at Indore, 1991, Jan 3-8, page 47.

19. Bhattacharyya, K. Meandering habits of the Ajay River between Sunia and Begunkola in the district of Barddhaman and the planning of village space and population size-a micro level study in applied geography. Paper presented at the Indian Geography Congress, Organized by the University of Delhi, India, 1989, Oct 3-5, 1.

20. Bhattacharyya, K and Basu, M. Floods, flood plains and human adjustment, a case study of the Kaliaghai River, West Bengal. Paper presented at the Indian Geography Congress organized by the University of Mysore, India, 1988, Dec 26-28, 112.