North-East India: Geo-Environmental Issues

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An understanding of the earth's surface, its dynamics and components is essential to solve the enraveling environmental problems for attaining sustainable development. North-East India with its complex geological structure, varieties of water bodies, forest, unattended resources and rich biodiversity is also loaded with a host of geo-environmental problems and issues. In this book the major geo-environmental issues of the region are being addressed in the papers contributed by well known academicians and researchers. The papers are the outcome of research and study of the contributors. The book contains a good data base on the geo-environmental issues of North-Eastern region of India covering all important aspects which need to be seriously addressed. This book will definitely be helpful for students, research scholars, academicians, planners and administrators.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sujit Deka

Sujit Deka (b. 1971) completed his M. Sc. in Geography in 1995 and Ph. D. in 2003 from the Department of Geography, Gandhi University, Guwahati. Since 1997, he has been Lecturer at the Department of Geography, Pandu College and is a member of a various academic societies and has been associated with editing of thematic issues of certain journals. He has presented a few research papers at national and international level conferences held in India and abroad besides having published papers in research journals. He has prepared a number of Evaluation Reports on the ongoing Integrated Wastelands Development Project/Hariyali Project of Government of India as an assignment to the North East Centre for Resource Development (NECRD), Sonitpur, Assam, a non-governmental organization where he has been extending voluntary service in the capacity of Managing Director of the organization.