Resource Use, Development and Environment Interfaces and Implications

Author: Singh; Ravi S.  

Publisher: YS Books International‎

Publication year: 2015

E-ISBN: 9789383793549

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789383793068

Subject: P96 natural resource science;X3 Environmental Protection Management

Keyword: 自然资源学,环境保护管理

Language: ENG

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Ravi S. Singh (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP), India. Prof. Singh has several international as well as national academic publications in reputed journals and research series, many of them cross-disciplinary, to his credit. His major publications include Paths of Development in Arunachal Pradesh (2005, NBC), Indian Geography: Perspectives, Concerns and Issues (ed. 2009, Rawat Publications), Indian Geography in the 21st Century: The Young Geographers' Agenda (ed. 2009, CSP), Environmental Concerns: Third World Perspectives (ed. 2014, YS Books International), Quotidian Urban Challenges: Development, Environment and Health (ed. 2014, YS Books International), and Resource Use Development and Environment: Interfaces and Implications (ed. 2015, YS Books International). Associated with several prestigious academic and scientific bodies, he is currently Vice-President: The Indian Society of Spatial Science (Presidency University, Kolkata) and Secretary: The Institute of Indian Geographers (Pune) besides being on the advisory board of many academic journals. The main areas of his academic interest are geographical thought, geography education, social and cultural geography, and development geography.

Chapter

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Development Bases and Emerging Crises

The development idée fixes: Unfolding a paradoxical talisman

Environment, resource and development in the Brahmaputra basin ⠀䤀渀搀椀愀) and its neighbourhood

Environmental crisis and conflicts: Some evidences from south Asia

Bamboo politics: A page from the politics of the hills of Mizoram

Economy, development, and environmental conditions in Uttarakhand

Impact of coal mining on environment and human health: A case study of Dhanbad district

Dams, development and environment: A case study of Damodar Valley Corporation Region

Geoecological development of Kamasamudram watershed

Land Use, Agriculture and Ecology

Sustainable land-use in Brazilian Amazon

Ecological perspective on the changing cropping pattern in Birbhum district, West Bengal 199-223

Food security implications of paddy land conversion: A micro level study

Herbicides and their effects on chickpea root nodulation in dry land chickpea and coriander intercropping system

Spatio-temporal variation in land-use and agriculture in Assam: An analysis

Development of ground water irrigation and its impact on geo-hydrological environment: A case study

Indira Gandhi canal project: Ecological issues and challenges

Development and Sustainability

Mangrove ecosystems: Present threat and potential sustainable uses

Role of man in sustainable development An environmental appraisal of Sunderban Region

Floods, associated geo-envnironmental problems and socio-economic development: A case study of Assam

Energy security and oil-dependence of India: Compulsions and options

Decentralization, development and environmental protection:An analysis of elected women representative’s network

Conflict between sustainability and profitability issues A study of two fish production units

Impact of brick industry on the Koyana River

Perspectives on water and development with special reference to India

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