Aarohan Dutta

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Assa-gone and Assa-now

Among the various lateritic Midland plateaus spread across Goa, Assagao is a Village, in North Goa located within the Bardez Taluka, surrounded by three sides by these hillocks which harbor Springs. These Springs and their water outflow are used by the Community of Gaud Saraswat Brahmins and Christians as a resource. This Common Pool resource not only feeds the Village’s water table but also acts as a source of potable water, has healing benefits, and supports orchard plantations and rabi crop cultivations. Recently this resource has been overused to exhaustion by foreign inhabitants. The intent is to reconnect this Common Pool resource as a Network to the Community and make it resilient.

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Idea of Commons | Commons here in Assagao is in the form of a resource which has a close relationship with the inhabitants | Morphing nature of this Common Pool Resource along each aspect of Assagao

Natural Layers of Assagao | Understanding Spring Matrix and Nomenclature

Correlating geomorphology with natural layers, types of Springs emerge w.r.t. the water quality present in Assagao | Dynamics of Typology of Springs and Community dependency on Common Pool Resource

Resource Mapping and Stakeholder influence | Community interdependency with Type and quality of Spring water and correlation of Vegetation species for revenue generation

Governing Patterns revolving around Common Pool Resource | Morphing Structure of Assagao w.r.t. to Land Use, Spring Network and Population Dispersion

Inference and Vision for Reconnecting Spring Network back to Assagao as a Common Pool Resource | Framework for Attributes of Vision and Stakeholder dependency w.r.t. to Strategy intervention

Vision Attributes as Strategies on Ground | Spring Origin Revival and Network Reconnection Intervention in Phases

Interventions to Reconnect Stream Network and make it Resilient w.r.t. to Community dependency and Resource flow

Intervention for Independent Spring Stream and Traditional Community Practice intertwined

Reforming the Common Pool Resource by introducing Policies in harmony with Interventions | Interventions interlinked with each other to form a cohesive network Reconnecting Springs back to Assagao