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Land resources in the country are limited and are declining due to increasing population, land degradation and land conversions. Today, the availability of information on land use/land cover in the form of thematic maps, records and statistical figures are inadequate and are not up to date on the changing land use patterns and processes. The National Conference on land use/land cover & Management Practices, while recognizing the importance of two way ...
Education is universally acknowledged as one of the key inputs contributing to the process of national development. For development of human resources, investment in education is essential in order to empower people with appropriate knowledge, skills, values and attitudes, to enhance their quality of life, to improve their productivity and to enable them to participate more fully in the development process. In the present context of global economy, access to ...
The science of environment and the practice of natural resource management are critical to our understanding of the Earth’s ecosystems and our efforts to conserve them. This book attempts to bridge the gap between environmental science ad natural resource management. It describes how concepts and approaches used by environmentalists to study communities and ecosystems can be applied to their management. This book emphasizes the importance of thoughtfully ...
This book deals with the Plant Biotechnology which has created unprecedented opportunities for the manipulation of biological, It is essential to know the basic aspects of genes and their organization in the genome of plant cells. It outlines the relevance of Plant biotechnology to Indian agriculture and the importance of regulatory and biosafety issues before public acceptance of genetically modified food. It also addresses the benefits and risks, as well as ...
Space science and technology has grown multifold globally and Indian contribution to its growth over the years has been very significant. Further, its contribution in the domain of use of space derived data to a variety of Applications has also grown multifold, ever since the launch of IRS series of satellites in 1988. The wide research of Applications stands spread horizontally across the geographical boundaries, regions/sub-regions and cultural landscapes. This ...
Education is universally acknowledged as one of the key inputs contributing to the process of national development. For development of human resources, investment in education is essential in order to empower people with appropriate knowledge, skills, values and attitudes, to enhance their quality of life, to improve their productivity and to enable them to participate more fully in the development process. In the present context of global economy, access to ...
Research is a careful investigation leading to the discovery and interpretation of information. There are many different types of research that discover or reinterpret information collected by experimentation or observation and suggest practical applications or theoretical implications of that information. Research is the corners tone of any science, including both the hard sciences such as chemistry or physics and the social or soft sciences such as psychology, ...
The book has been comprehensively designed to cover all most all the significant aspects of biotechnology. It has been divided in six important volumes to keep the size of the book handy. Each and every volume of the book is having its own importance as far as the wider understanding of biotechnology is concerned. Various topics such as sustainable agricultural productivity, cell culture, gene cloning and recombinant DNA Technology has been widely touched in the ...