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The volume provides a coherent picture of the geography of Jammu and Kashmir. Based on fieldwork and other findings, it gives a brief account of the political history of Jammu and Kashmir. It discusses the geological history with respect to the each of the three regions—Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. The chapters cover in detail Jammu and Kashmir’s physical features, drainage, weather and climate referring to the three regions for their features. There is ...
The vast biodiversity of earth's forests provides the human race trees for timber, fuel, food, industrial raw materials (fiber, pulp, oil, dyes, rubber), pharmaceuticals (enzymes, drugs), beverages (tea, coffee, cocoa) and environmental stabilization. In recent years, international concern over the uncontrolled destruction of natural forests has resulted in the global realization that such reserves are finite and are being progressively destroyed without ...
The significance of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) is being increasingly realized through better understanding of their value to the economy as well to the environment. Emphasis is increasing on the efficient and sustainable use of natural resources. The role of NTFPs in the overall socioeconomic wellbeing of the communities living around forests is better understood today. It is now realized that NTFPs play an important role in the household food security of ...
This book has been devoted to the discussion and study of e-libraries; what they entail and what they mean for the new millennium. The book embarks on a full-scale discussion of what digital libraries project for the future, how they are currently in place and functioning and how they mark a new era in the evolution of libraries through civilization. The emphasis has been on the methodologies and functioning of e-libraries, their techniques and the equipment they ...