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REVIEW article
Front. Water
Sec. Water and Human Systems
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frwa.2025.1511044
This article is part of the Research Topic Water Rights and Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa View all articles
Inclusion of Eco-Profile approach in Watershed and River Basin Management for addressing Water Rights and Conflicts at Micro Scale
Provisionally accepted
Damasco Mavhaire 1
Rajendrakumar S 1*
Tharanidevi N 1*
Dil Bahadur Rahut 2
Raja Rajendra Timilsina 2- 1 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore, India
- 2 Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo, Japan
Eco-profile studies helps in continuous assessment and monitoring of river basin functions, the planners, decision-makers deploy study findings to address problems associated with in river basins. In this paper, we reviewed the study covers the eco-profile based watershed and river basin management practices and benefits of eco-profile in understanding and addressing water related issues at the micro-level. The study uses a systematic literature review approach called the PRISMA framework (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) to collect and process the literature. Our study recorded an eco-profile based implementations improves the river basin functions and addresses the micro level issues related to water rights and conflicts that are usually not addressed during water resources management. Additionally by eco-profile study, the key ecological indicators at micro and macro scales can be identified that help to predict the continuous changes of biotic and abiotic conditions within the watershed and river basin regions. Finally, the present study discusses the advantage of eco-profile in watershed, recorded measures to comprehend river basin function, community role, approach to solve the water rights and conflicts at micro scale. The study also recommends the inclusion of eco-profile framework and eco-profile policy in integrated water resources management program specific to river basin /watershed management activities.
Keywords: Eco-profile assessment, watershed, river basin management, Water rights, water conflicts, Ecological Indicators, community wellbeing
Received: 14 Oct 2024; Accepted: 20 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Mavhaire, S, N, Rahut and Timilsina. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Rajendrakumar S, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore, India
Tharanidevi N, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore, India
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