Pankaj Gupta
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Glaciers and snow cover of Himalaya is the major source of water in Central Asia. Natural calamities and geo hydrological hazards occur in this regime due to rapid uplift of Himalaya and the under thrusting of Indian Plate and other extreme climatic disturbances. The book
Climate Change and Himalaya- Natural hazards and mountain resources presents the resources of Himalaya along with the potential natural hazards. It consists twenty two chapters from researchers ...
Economics Education and Social Change. Boettke argues that ideas still reign. He describes an Intellectual Pyramid of Society. In which scholars produce ideas that are distributed by policy think tanks and teachers, which are in turn passed on to the government, media students, ad businesses. Boettke’s sentiment parallels that of the famous Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who said that most people do not have their own ideas but parrot them from others.
The readers will find evidence that the history of economic though as a body of knowledge is not settled that although there are many areas of consensus the field is also home to numerous controversies and open questions. This is perhaps even more apparent when one compares essays that overlap in terms of coverage. Different authors may have surprisingly different ideas about the central themes or the most significant ideas of a particular school national ...
India is popularly known as a land of villages. A village is not a simple entity but a composite whole, which stands as an evidence of the history as to how India has been able to safeguard her traditional knowledge. The fabric of Indian society has been decorated with beautiful and variety of designs embroidered with strong threads of culture and ecology. India, being a region of ecological prudence has always exhibited a symbiotic relationship between ...
The Himalaya has been a source of attraction, inspiration and exploration to people from all walks of life and over the ages. The Himalay rises abruptly, resulting in a diversity of ecosystems and is rich in biodiversity. The Himalayan society possesses a unique repository of culture and heritage. Different facets of the Himalaya have been described in poetry, fiction, prose, science and art. All this information on the Himalaya is ...