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Global food security has been threatened by climate change and has become one of the most important challenges in the 21st century to supply sufficient food and nutrition for the increasing population while sustaining the already stressed environment. Studies on impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies to overcome such problems are increasingly becoming major areas of concerns for the scientists, researchers and policy makers. The climate change ...
Throughout the nineteenth century, people built dams either for municipal storage, for water power, for flood control, or for irrigation. Many were privately built, some by local governments, but none by the federal government except for river navigation. With only a few late nineteenth-century exceptions, all dams were low and brought forth little modern engineering. By the end of that centurt, the problem associated with erecting masonry dams gave rise to their ...
This volume of papers by an eminent historian of the last generation provides dependable source-based information on Nawab Mirqasim’s desperate state of mind, Maharaja Nandakumar caught between two worlds, glimpses of the late Mughal period, the age and caste of women who became satis, the salt workers of the eighteenth century, the earliest court records in Bengal and the motivation for western education. The author’s methodical presentation of facts and ...