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Journalism is the investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience about topics ranging from government and business organizations to cultural aspects of society such as arts and entertainment. The field includes editing, photojournalism, and documentary. In modern society, news media have become the chief purveyor of information and opinion ...
Photo journalism is a particular form of journalism the collecting, editing and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography i.e. documentary photography, social documentary photography, ...
This book seeks to explain the concept of ethnobotany and the extent of its usage in modern times. It describes in detail the ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal use of plants, orchids in ethnobotany, new crop development in ethnobotany and conservation of plant resources.
Making an in-depth study of the rising trend of ethnobotany, it also discusses the training of ethnobotanists, threats and conservation issues, rise of ethnobotany in 20th century, new social ...
The Rural World faces a profound challenges. It is already home to about three quarters of the world's poorest people and faces the challenging conditions of increasingly limited resources such as Land Water and Power etc. Yet, we expect rural lands to intensify production and feed more persons in the coming decades. We expect the rural world to care for the ecosystem that agriculture has played a part in degrading. We expect that the rural world can offer ...
This book presents global perspectives and challenges of crime against girls and women. Taking a close look at the status of women in criminal justice system, it addresses major issues concerning sexual violence against them in the war, the relationship between child sexual abuse and female delinquency, and female foeticide and infanticide.
Also, it explains the theory of homicidal behaviour among women, and moves on to discuss violence against women, reduction ...
Water pollution is a major global problem which requires ongoing evaluation and revision of water resource policy at all levels. It has been suggested that it is the leading worldwide cause of deaths and diseases and that it accounts for the deaths of more than 14,000 people everyday. An estimated 700 million Indians have no access to a proper toilet, and 1,000 Indian children die of diarrheal sickness every day. Some 90% of China's cities suffer from some degree ...
The period since the 2nd World War has been marked by an astonishing increase in crop yields per hectare, a moderate increase in cropped land area, and the net result has been a huge increase in food production. The par capita availability of food is now greater than before, despite the population increase over this period. This success must be given proper recognition. There are still many hundered of millions of undernourised people in the world, but this is ...
From the very beginning of its existence, human kind has been tackling the problems of food provisions. People's purposeful actions during many generations resulted in the actual formation of the biosphere's new component - agrosphere. according to the definition of academician O.Sozinov, the agrosphere includes all types of agrolandscapes, agrobicenouses, and agroecosystems. Agrosphere is not only the main source of provision of the population with foodstuffs ...