Gopal Bhargava
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The ocean water covers 70.8 per cent of Earth's total surface area. The marine ecosystem contains a wide-range of plants and animals. It represents a stable equilibrium of various physical and biological factors. The organic continuity of the system rests on a delicate network of interdependent relationships. The present book is unique amidst the existing literature on marine biology. It contains authoritative and well researched aspects of marine ecosystem. ...
The main thrust of the theme is on environmental problems which has deep bearing on destruction of wildlife on habitat, extinction of plant and animal species, soil erosion, air and water pollution, and poisonous substances. Besides the author argues about political ecology as well as political economy in his comprehensive study.
The book introduces two basic approaches for understanding governances issues: political ecology and political economy. The author’s view is the ecology approach is relatively new and untested field of inquiry, while political economy perspective arises from a massive and systematic flowering of literature and analysis. The book attempts to depict the real picture of environmental problems of great magnitude – destruction of wildlife habitat, extinction of ...
The Environment, or a country's natural capital, can provide a sustainable flow of good and services that are needed for development. The main environmental challenges we are facing today include water and sanitation, energy and industrial growth, rural development and international environment issues. Most developing countries have made progress in establishing a legal and regulatory framework for environmental protection, over the past two decades. The rise ...
The book explores an in-depth study of various socio-economic, spatial and infrastructural factors of urban, rural and regional planning framework in the 21 century scenario. The urban planning scenario in the new millennium is examined with the empirical data and policy perspectives. The emerging challenging issues of housing crisis, slum and squatter settlements, environmental chaos, the spectacular growth phenomenon of informal sector in metropolitan cities ...
The economic exploitation of children has always been a area of concern in the world over. The number of working children is increasing form year to year. Some reasons are economic situation of their family, lack of employment opportunities for the adult member, and the preference of the employers to hire children to save on production costs. Today, a large number of both industrialised and developing countries have adopted child labour legislation that, on the ...
Human rights are based on respect for the dignity and worth of all human beings and seek to ensure freedom from fear and want. They are rooted in ethical principles and usually inscribed in a country’s constitutional and legal framework. Violations of human rights is one of the most worrying problems of our times for the entire world civilisation. The responses to the worst human rights violations of the twentieth century, to totalitarian oppression have ...
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. The concepts embodied in current human rights documents come from many different traditions, countries and cultures. Religious systems as well as recent movements such as feminism, socialism and environmentalism have also influenced rights and conventions. While the meaning of human rights is ...
The pervasive e presence of human rights in almost all the dimensions of daily life in most societies provides a cementing influence in the realization of the world recognizing the need in the current political climate for examining issues on a global basis, the internationalisation of human rights values can be excepted to proceed apace. This book views the human rights as an ongoing attempt to define human dignity and worth and to create human rights’ culture ...
In contemporary society, the mass media serve as a powerful socializing agent. Viewers learn and internalize some of the values, beliefs and norms presented in media products. Of course, the more controversial discussions of media as a socializing agent usually involve media products that seem to challenge convention and authority. From a sociological perspective, the media play a crucial role in almost all aspects of daily life. However, their influence is not ...
Media are having a pivotal role in informing the people and influencing their thinking and shaping their attitudes. One of their major purposes is to provide an impartial, disinterested synthesis of information. Today, they are undergoing tremendous changes. They are more fashionable, more powerful and more influential today. This book encompasses lot of connotations for various concepts connected to mass media. It consists of major aspects of comparison of mass ...
This scientifically researched 27 volume Encyclopaedia of Art and Culture in India is a vast treasure of knowledge and information on 28 States and seven Union Territories. Each volume contains an Introduction on the particular state describing its origin, history, geography, economy, and 23 chapters on topics ranging from the cultural change over period of time from the very early period to the modern times to religion, pursuit of education, position of ...
The absence of consolidated and up-to-date literature dealing with various aspects of current urban problems and their implications for policy decision making has been acting as a lacuna for a long time. For urgent removal of this lacuna, a comprehensive fund of knowledge and understanding of an inter-disciplinary approach toward urban problems was desired to be developed. The present volume is the consequence of a collective attempt to unfold before the ...