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The demand for mineral resources has grown exponentially high to keep pace with the industrial growth. Added to this, paradoxically, the existing mineral resources are in general located in forest and environmentally sensitive areas. This kind of a virtual impasse calls for search for newer mineral deposits and an evolved technology to protect the environment for a sustainable development. Mining activities today are on the cross roads because of the ...
Our environment is undergoing drastic changes owing to multitude of human interventions. Such interventions create varying magnitude of pollution and environmental issues. Understanding the dynamics of environmental changes is critical to halting and reversing such environmental and human vulnerability. It is imperative to sustainably manage these situations for better livelihood conditions. The book is a peer reviewed edited volume that explores some of these ...
The resolution of regional and residual components arising our of the deeper and shallower sources from the observed Bouger gravity anomalies is an age old problem. Several analytical techniques have been developed to compute the regional or residual. The common shortcoming of these methods is that the total data set is considered to evaluate the regional. As a result of this a small portion of residual is left out in the regional. In our new technique the entire ...
This book covers the entire spectrum of mineralogy and consolidates its applications in various fields. It starts (Part I) with the very basic concept of mineralogy describing in detail the implications of various aspects of mineral chemistry, crystallographic structures and their effects producing different mineral properties.
Part II of the book describes different aspects of mineralogy used to extend the studies of Geothermobarometry, mineral thermodynamics ...
Most present-day drought management practices are event-based. This book provides the desired collateral information about the onset, progress and termination of drought. Different chapters provide insight into the various aspects of drought; drought indicators; clouds and their classification; surface and sub-surface water and storage system; soil and crop type and water requirement; an overview of orbital satellite data analysis; spatial data and geographical ...
It has become imperative on the part of water scientists and planners to adopt techniques for quantifying the available groundwater resources for sustainable development and management keeping in mind the scarcity of available water resources versus its demand in the near future. The apparent heterogeneities and complexities present in the hard rock aquifers makes it a challenging research to tackle groundwater problems. The intricacy increases manifold for the ...
The book addresses key issues related to the current questions that are important in the plans for linking various rivers in South Asia. The book tries to present views from both sides -- for and against -- and leave the reader to make his/her individual opinion and not swayed by either academic or non-governmental views. Extrapolations have been made on possible implication of global warming and climate change on the water sector in the sub-continent. As far as ...
This book on geomagnetic perspectives of solid Earth and upper atmosphere presents various aspects of the Earth’s magnetic field. Beginning with a treatise on the historical development of geomagnetism, topics covered in this book include the most recent advances in geophysical research on acquisition, reduction and analyses of data from geomagnetic observatory network, geophysical surveying and laboratory experiments. The state-of-art ...
Gradual changes in the environment have borne tremendous impact on growth performance of plants, which has been duly documented. However, it seems that properties of medicinal plants in relation to environmental changes are yet to be evaluated as thoroughly as to satisfy a variety of relevant queries and concerns. This book, Medicinal Plants in Changing Environment, comprising 17 chapters on relevant topics contributed by experts of the subject in question. This ...
Collection of selected overview articles presented in a series of training workshops conducted over a decade.
The South Asian Rapid Assessment Programme (SARAP) initiated by the Global Change System for Analysis, Research, and Training (START) and supported by the Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Studies (MAIRS) programme, has for the first time attempted to synthesize the scientific understanding generated so far by the global change research studies carried out in and for South Asian region in a holistic manner.This book aims to encompass most components of physical ...
The major challenges of the 21 century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security, energy security and environmental security. Owing to enhanced natural/anthropogenic disasters worldwide, these challenges become much more complicated and daunting especially for developing countries. Therefore, it is important to highlight the risk of different disasters as well as the modern tools and techniques for minimizing disaster incidence and ...
Papers presented at a dialogue between the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Observer Research Foundation, held at New Delhi during 30-31 March 2006.
Evidence of Precambrian deformation (and associated regional metamorphism) is better preserved in the Lesser Himalayan zone where the Tertiary Himalayan events left much less modifying effects compared to the Central Himalayan Crystallines. The striking absence of Tertiary igneous activity in the Lesser Himalayan zone perhaps indicates that belt (now commonly occurring as disconnected “klippe” bodies over the Lesser Himalayan ...
Although the role of plant kingdom in determining earth's climate is generally acknowledged, our understanding of plant physiology is very rudimentary. The author has attempted to present a comprehensive and unified approach to plant physiology, with emphasis on the energetics of transport processes. The present approach is in line with P. Mitchell's theory of proton motive force as the source of energy for symport and antiport processes in all cell ...
Ecohydrology connects the two key elements that are the focus of all environmental problems, namely ecosystems and water. The hydrological problems in diverse ecosystems are being focussed in many countries due to enhanced stress on water both with respect to quantity and quality. Hence, there is an urgent need to integrate ecological approaches for better understanding of surface and subsurface hydrological processes. With this view in mind, several experts were ...