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Transformation of a nation-that too, with the size and complexity of India-won’t happen in months. At the same time, if it took decades, it won’t be called transformation any more. So is India really in the middle of a transformation under the Modi government? Are we seeing history in the making without fully realising it?
The best way to answer these questions would be to capture the story of India’s development since 2014 with the backdrop of ...
For the past over two decades, India has faced serious international security problems and suffered colossal human and economic losses at the hands of terrorist groups which are abetted and supported by adversary external agencies. It would be clear, viewed from any angle, that India has to take its own decisions and wage its own war against the onslaught of terrorism. In this perspective several eminent experts who have played an important role in combating ...
Climate change refers to the variation in the earth's global climate or in regional climates over time. It describes changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused by processes internal to the earth, external forces or, more recently, human activities. This encyclopaedia has been written with the aim of acquainting people with phenomenon of global climate ...
This book, the first in the series of this four book volume on climate change, deals, exclusively with the exploration of the causes of climate change. The increase in the emission of green house gases and the subsequent enhanced greenhouse effect, is the root of this problem, and the human activities and processes which cause these are quite comprehensively discussed. Trends in the increase in the concentrations of these green house gases are detailed with the ...
Forest ecosystems, which form the terrestrial ecosystem most crucial to the fight again global warming had been death with extensively in the last volume in this four book series on global warming. Here too, forests have been brought under cover, but attention has also been paid to other terrestrial ecosystems, which have perhaps contributed more to green house gas emissions. Grass laids plains and desert feature predominantly among these and emergingly specific ...
This book seeks to understand the immense role forest ecosystems can play in the fight against global warming, and makes an effort to explore the principles underlying the relationship between forest eco-systems themselves and global warming. Discussing in immense depth the types, bio-diversity processes and ecology of forest ecosystems, this manual elaborates on how all these cycles and process contribute to the functions of greenhouse effect and climate ...