Baleshwar Thakur
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The five-volume series on 'Regional Development: Theory and Practice' is a festschrift dedicated to Professor R. P. Misra, a distinguished scholar, widely recognized as one of the pioneers who initiated and promoted Regional Planning studies in India.
This five-volume series, with over one hundred research papers on different aspects of regional development, is a fitting tribute to the scholar who spent much of his life time thinking, researching and writing ...
This series, planned in fourteen volumes, provides scientific knowledge on natural resources in developing countries for their rational and sustainable development. Explaining theory and techniques of resource management, it identifies the key issues and responses of renewable as well as non-renewable resources.The major themes covered in the series include relationship between population, resources and development; ecological degradation of land; land appraisal ...
This festschrift, running into two volumes, attempts to analyse the various aspects of earth system sciences. It presents analytical discourse and multidisciplinary disposition of research vistas in the growth of inter and intra-sub-disciplines of earth sciences, including earthquakes and tectonics, landslide hazards, water resources, petrology and geochemistry, applied geomorphology ad terrain studies, and geoenvironment and climate change. It is of great use to ...
This multi-volume series to be contribute and provide scientific knowledge on natural resources in developing countries for their rational and sustainable development. It creates an understanding of the critical and decisive role that resource development and management play in today’s society by an intelligent garnering of natural resources, restocking of forests and the achievement of a long-term rotational agro-forestry, arresting of soil ...
This set of three volumes is not just a compilation of essays in honour of Professor Ashok Kumar Dutt, it personifies his life as a person and a professional. Prof. Dutt has established his international credentials as the leading exponent of urban and regional planning and has enriched both its theory and practice by his brilliant ideas and practical insights. His contributions in the areas of urban, social, cultural, medical, population, economic and ...
This volume, containing 34 papers, examines the complex relationship between population, resources and development. Taking stock of situations and experiences in South and Southeast Asia, West and East Africa, Central and South America, China and Soviet Union, it addresses the issues concerning distribution and utilization of resources. The contributors further analyse the challenges of population pressure on resources. Finally, they assess the impact of resource ...
This series, planned in fourteen volumes, provides scientific knowledge on natural resources in developing countries for their rational and sustainable development. Explaining theory and techniques resource management, it identifies the key issues and responses and development; ecological degradation of land; land appraisal and development, soil deterioration and conservation; water supply and quality, water management, groundwater assessment, bio resource ...