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The Himalaya is a mountain region of majestic grandeur great charm and high geographical significance. As one of the youngest mountain regions of the world, it shares some common problems of environment and development. The Himalayas is rich in many natural resources. Much stress is laid on the exploitation of natural resources such as forest but surprisingly stress is not laid on their conservation. Water is a prime natural resource a basic human need for all ...
This is an authentic and fascinating book which has concerned all these geographical factors in the environment and culture which make a nation politically strong and historically stable like England, U.S.A., Canada among other strong countries and politically weaker and historically unstable like Zaire. A number of new dimensions have emerged on the world-surface after the first and second World War on the political, geographical, historical, economical and ...
This book Population Geography is a study of all those factors which are responsible for the unexpected growth of population which has become a global issue. Population geographers tries to find out the geographical factors of uneven distribution of population. The main theme of book is to find out ‘Where, how and why’ Population exist. They study these variations in density of people and closely related “population explosion.†There are a number of ...
Environmental Education has close links with the other four cross-curricular themes sharing many of the same features of investigative skills and body of knowledge. Pupils may research original and secondary sources, set up simulations, reach conclusions and discuss the validity of their ideas. The five themes share the possibilities for promoting the discussion of value and beliefs, extending knowledge and understanding, encouraging practical activities and ...
At the world convention for biological diversity, the definition for biological diversity was recommended. Biological diversity means the variability among living organism from all sources including interalia, terrestrial marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. This includes diversity within species between species and of ecosystems.
This book is a study of simultanceous development of science and technology and its side effects on environment. The scientific and technological developments while offering unprecedented opportunities to change and shape the environment of man to meet his needs as aspirations also involves great danger. Pesticides, agricultural chemicals, insecticides, herbicides, fundicides, weedicides, nematodes are being used to increase the production throughout the world. ...
This book is a study of effective manners to increase of the environmental education in our society. In this scientific age with the development of science and technologies and new discoveries, the environmental condition of this world has been completely changed. It has become a challenge before the whole world to project the environment. A number of schemes and plans are launched by national and international bodies. Environmental education is one of them to ...
Health as defied in the World Health Organization's constitution is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, if geography is to aid in our understanding of health. This book contains thirty chapters including its introduction. In chapter two epidemics of cholera in Kashmir and further in chapter three dinking water and water borne diseases in an urban environment. Arsenic poisoning in West ...