Population Resources & Development: A Geographical Perspective

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This book embodies 15 selected articles on various aspects of the general theme, ‘Population, Resources and development’ These are contributed by the geographers, who are experts in their respective field. It is well recognized that population and resources are the two basic factors for development. Therefore, in any in-depth analysis of population and resources and their interaction and influences is essential in order to understand the deep seated problems of d3evelopment in a particular region. Apart from a few conceptual articles included in this volume, most of the other articles are written on the problems of the nature, culture and society of population and problems relating to the availability, exploitation and utilization of various kinds of resources in order to understand the level and disparity of development in the contexts of South Asia, India and North East India. Some authors with their valuable suggestions to resolve the dialectics of population, resources (environment) and development have addressed this problem seriously it is expected that the book will be of immense help to teachers. Researchers, students, administrators and planners in understanding the spatial economic perspective of population-resources-development nexus.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.M. Das

Dr. M.M. Das is a Professor in the Department of geography Gauhati University. About 56 research papers authored by Dr. das have been published so far in different reputed journals and books in India and abroad. His two published books –one on ‘Peasant Agriculture in Assam’ and the other on ‘landholding Structure: A problem in Peasant Agriculture in Assam’ the outcome of his ICSSR sponsored research project, have been widely reviewed and highly appreciated by geographers, intellectual and economists. He has also the experience in editing 4 books and 10 volumes of journal of the North east India geographical Society ‘The North Eastern geographer’, besides a volume of the ‘Annals of the National association of geographers, India’ as one of the guest editors. Dr. das has attended a large number of international and national seminars, workshops and conference. He was also invited by the institute of Human Geography, Milan University, Italy to deliver a series of lectures under the Indo-Italian Cultural exchange programme.

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Title
Population Resources & Development: A Geographical Perspective
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8190383418
Length
xvi+212p., Tables; Figures; References; Index; 25cm.
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