Population, Development and Environment: A Contemporary Debate

Contents: 1. Population environment economy and sustainable development : some interlocking patterns/Kashi Nath Singh. 2. Population development and environment: issues and challenges/M.H. Qureshi. 3. Population and environment relationship: the context of climate change/R.B. Bhagat. 4. Contextualizing population in developing societies: third world perspective/Anand Prasad Mishra. 5. Climate change and sustainable development: issues and challenges in India/Ajay Kumar, Bijay Kumar Das, Rajneesh Kumar and Fulena Rajak. II. Migration and urbanization: 6. Migration in India: patterns, poverty, underlying phenomena, spatial-economic processes and development policies/Shekhar Mukherji. 7. Globalisation induced migration of labour and their exploitation/Shrikrishna Singh and Shiv Shankar Mishra. 8. The Mega cities of India: a question of their sustainability/Tara Devi Singh. 9. Urban development and involuntary resettlement: Indian experience/Mrutyunjaya Sahu. 10. Spatial patterns of urbanisation and development in Odisha, India/Sibabrata Das. III. Socio-economic development: 11. Development of eastern Uttar Pradesh: challenges and opportunities/Ram Bali Singh. 12. Progress of poverty and health related goals of MDG: special reference to Eastern Uttar Pradesh/Rajesh Kumar Chauhan. 13. Issues of population and development in Bhojpuri speaking region of India with special reference to Millennium development goals (MDGs)/Archana K. Roy, Neelam Tripathi, Upendra Nath Roy and Rashmi Kant. 14. Industrial growth and deprivation: a paradox of developmental strategy/Ratnawali. 15. Relationship between women work participation and education in Rajasthan/Neelam Saraswat and Mithlesh Gupta. 16. Demographic and health composition of tribal population in Rajasthan/B.L. Nagda. 17. Development induced displacement: a case study of Odisha/Ranjana Bajpai. IV. Environmental issues: 18. Earth Democracy, living Democracy: rebuilding security in an age of insecurity/Vandana Shiva. 19. Declining biotic cover and strategic for conservation/Sudha Srivastava. 20. climate change, glacial recession in Himalayas and its impact on Indian economy/Narender Verma. 21. Pattern of land use changes and associated environmental issues: a case of coastal districts of Kutch, Gujarat/Vishal Gupta and A.A. Ansari. 22. Arsenic pollution and its sustainable eco-remediation from aquatic ecosystems: an overview/Prabhat Kumar Rai. 23. Diversity of weed species and soil seed Bank in Indian dryland and irrigated agroecosystems/Rajani Srivastava. V. Policies and planning: 24. Data for development policy, planning and evaluation sources, nature and limitations/Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia. 25. India’s population policy: operational framework for implementation/Arun K. Singh. 26. Irrigation management and inclusive growth: AKRSP (India)’s intervention in tribal Gujarat/Jyotirmayee Acharya. Index.