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“Nature” is one of the culturally most loaded concepts. It is one of the central concepts for human understanding and structuring of the surroundings (Glacken, 1967). The concept of nature is deeply embedded in our understanding of the world, so deep that we seldom reflect its central role in our thinking. With impulses from symbol theory (Elias, 1991), environmental history (Berntsen, 1994; Nash,...
Middle mountain catchments in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region are the heavily populated and mainly rainfed headwaters of many smaller, but not less important rivers, and the tributaries of the larger North-South rivers draining the mountain system. The catchments are in a fragile and vulnerable region from the perspective of water scarcity, flooding and soil erosion. It is these catchments which caused...
The generation of runoff and the associated processes are important for the understanding of flood generation and sediment mobilisation. However, only few studies of this kind were conducted in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region. This paper presents detailed rainfall event analyses in the Jhikhu Khola catchment in the middle mountains of Nepal’s Himalayas followed by analysis of runoff events in erosion...
The use of shallow groundwater in middle mountain catchments of Nepal is a recent development. It was only in early 1998 that a number of dug wells had been constructed in the Jhikhu Khola catchment. But their numbers are rapidly increasing. While it seems to be a good way of accessing additional water resources both for domestic (current) and agricultural purposes (future), it is very important that...
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