Abha Lakshmi Singh
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The volume focuses on the colose links between the environment and people’s health. A high quality environment enables people to live longer in good health. Environmental problems such has pollution etc. can pose significant risk to our health if not properly assessed and managed.The volume consists of sixteenth articles from eminent researchers working on different aspects of environment and health. The relationship between human health and the environment ...
The book – ‘Rural Women: Work and Health’ deals with the issue of women’s and health, the type of work women do in rural areas, the limited options available to them, their striving towards working the most of whatever exists and the effects of these on their family and health are the themes which is being considered here. The book is mainly based on primary sources of data, which has been collected through survey of 75 selected villages. The data was ...
Land and Water Resources are the two most vital assets of the country and there is an urgent need to conserve and properly manage these resources. The paper in this book are coverage on the theme `Use and Misuse of Land and Water Resources'. The various papers unfold these perspectives and make valuable contributions in each area. Each of them look at different aspects of the problem and covers different areas of the country. Such a comprehensive study is ...
The definition of 'resources' changes drastically and unpredictably from time to time and from place to place. But the general notion is always something necessary or useful like food, air, water and materials that skilled hands and discerning minds can turn to the improvement of human lot. Thus, the problems of 'resource management' have arisen. The concern for 'resources management' is a history of changing perceptions on resource availability and of ...
Rural India and Agriculture are nearly synonymous and the rural dimension in Indian economy is of towering significance. Agriculture is providing livelihood for four out of every five Indians and even fifth one would find it extremely hard to survive if agriculture or rural economy is neglected. So to say that rural development is national development is not very wide off the mark. Indian policy makers have been emphasizing the primacy of rural development, ever ...
To increase the land-man ratio and to solve the food problem of India, the most effective step seems to be to bring the uncultivated lands under plough, wherever economically feasible. Before embarking on such an ambitious plan, detailed survey of cultivable lands should be undertaken at the microlevel. As a sample study an administrative sub-division of the district of Aligarh (U.P.) i.e., the Koil Tahsil was chosen for plot-to-plot survey of the uncultivated ...
Brings to the fore some fundamental problems of wastelands in India.
The volume focuses on the growing concern of academia for Rural Environmental Management. The volume throws light on issues associated with rural areas in rapidly changing economy, highlighting potential synergies and conflicts between competing and conflicting goals. The volume highlights complex socio-economic processes in rural areas resulting in inadequate development, which are said to be the cause of environmental degradation. Although considerable efforts ...
The volume focuses on the growing concern of academia for Urban Environmental Management. The volume throws light on issues associated with urbanization in rapidly growing economy, highlighting potential synergies and conflicts between competing and conflicting goals. The urban environment in the volume highlights the physical environment in urban areas with its complex mix of natural elements and built environment, i.e. physical environment constructed and ...