Resources and Regional Development in India: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Baleshwar Thakur - Hardcover
The growing population of India has increased the pressure on the country's natural resources. The complex and dynamic links between natural resources and regional development have long been recognized. This festschrift, written in honor of Professor Baleshwar Thakur, examines the challenges emerging out of resource usage and regional development in the country. Section one of the book covers topics such as: resource regions, resource usage, globalization, land use changes, water crisis, irrigation expansion and demand, floods forecasting and management, water quality, and hydropower development. Section two features topics such as: India's inter-state disparities, indicators of development, sex ratio imbalances, borrowing trend economy and its impact, transportation and agricultural development, road transport regions, geosheelitics, climate change impact, and mitigation. Both sections are interrelated, as the various resources provide a base for the development of all regions of the country.
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- PublisherRawat Publications
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 8131606414
- ISBN 13 9788131606414
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
- EditorThakur Rameshwar, Jeet Inder, Abhay Rajesh Kumar, Thakur Swati
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RESOURCES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Baleshwar Thakur
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. I. Regional resources: 1. Identification and delimitation of natural resource regions in Chotanagpur/Rameshwar Thakur. 2. Resource use and agricultural structure in medieval India/Mohammad Dilshad. 3. Mechanism of land transfer in Bihar: a case study of six villages/Rajeev Ranjan Kumar Sinha. 4. Globalization land use changes and marginality of livelihood in Western Himalayas/B.W. Pandey and Abhay Shankar Prasad. 5. Water crisis in India: issues and challenges/Surendra Singh Chawla. 6. Water use and its management in Damodar river basin/Rameshwar Thakur. 7. Irrigation expansion and water resources development in Haryana/Inder Jeet. 8. Irrigation water demand for the Hindon basin/Preeti Sachar. 9. The enigma of flood and flood forecasting techniques: a saga of Bihar/Shweta Rani. 10. Sustainable management of floods in North Bihar/Sneh Gangwar. 11. Problems and prospects of interlinking of rivers in Bihar/D.P. Singh and R.B. Thakur. 12. Water quality and water borne disease in Kanpur City/Kanchan Gupta. 13. Impacts of hydropower development on rural livelihood sustainability in Sikkim Himalayas/Aakash Upadhyay. II. Regional development: 14. Globalizing India and inter-state disparities: impending dangers/Guljit K. Arora. 15. Indicatorsmithy for measuring development/Rajesh Kumar Abhay. 16. Sex ratio imbalances in India/Monica Ahlawat. 17. Borrowing trend economy and its impact on education in isolated rural area: a case study of Aurangabad District, Bihar/Om Jee Ranjan and Anjan Sen. 18. Exclusion of the scheduled caste population in professional occupations in Uttar Pradesh/Vinod Kumar and Ajit Kumar. 19. Growth morphology society problems and management of the Chandannagar City, West Bengal/Mitrajit Chatterjee and Nageshwar Prasad. 20. Urban household perception of climate change and mitigation preferences in Dehradun City, Uttarakhand/Swati Thakur. 21. Delhi s master plan for 2021: a critical review of evolving approaches to city development/Priyanka Puri. 22. Road transport and agricultural development in Himachal Pradesh/Manjit Singh. 23. Delimiting road transport regions and its impact on regional development of Gaya District/Krishna Kumar and Anjan Sen. 24. Geosheelitics: the Indian way to save the earth s future/Sudeepta Adhikari. 25. Impact of climate change on South Asian forests/Swarnima Singh. 26. Vulnerability in mountain systems to natural and anthropogenic hazards: a case of Himachal Pradesh/Krishnanand. 27. Rehabilitation efficacy of Kutch Bhuj earthquake/Barun Kumar. Growing population in India has increased the pressure on natural resources. The complex and dynamic links between natural resources and regional development have long been recognized. Chapters in this book centre around the challenges emerging out of the resource use and regional development of the country. This book, a felicitation volume in honour of Professor Baleshwar Thakur, comprises of two sections regional resources and regional development both revealing the interest of Professor Thakur. Section one covers topics like resource regions, resources use, globalization and land use changes, water crisis, irrigation expansion and demand, floods forecasting and management, water quality and hydropower development. Section two features topics like inter-state disparities, indicators of development, sex ratio imbalances, borrowing trend economy and its impact, transportation and agricultural development, road transport regions, geosheelitics, climate change impact and mitigation etc. Both sections are interrelated as the various resources provide base to the development of a region. The book is interdisciplinary in its nature and ideal for the students of geography, resource management, regional planning and development. (jacket). Seller Inventory # 113344
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