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Forests are valued for many different things; they are the home of indigenous people, reserves of medicinal plants, support a high biodiversity, and provide ecosystem services such as protection from erosion, landslides, storms, tidal surges and wave action. Mangrove forests provide many products of commercial value (fin fish, shell fish, honey, timber, fodder etc.). Additionally, forests sequester carbon, which is another good reason to conserve them. This book ...
From college and university students, to researchers, policy makers, managers and also nature lovers of the country and abroad, the book fulfills their long awaited demands for a publication which combines all the existing and new, updated research in an engaging way, making reading and understand more interesting. Consisting of 260 pages, the book has numerous graphics and diagrammatic illustrations, colored photo plates and maps, providing a knowledge bank on ...
The present book Population and Reproductive Health : Perspectives and Issues is a compilation of some selected papers presented at the XXXI Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) organized at Sri Venkateswara University (SVU), Tirupati during Nov. 3-5, 2009. There are 27 articles included in the book covering wide areas of Population and Reproductive Health. The papers are arranged in 4 sections, namely, population ...
Pika-Pika (a Japanese onomatopoeic expression conjuring up the flashing of fireflies) is a multi-disciplinary, multi-regional collection of academic papers written by twenty-two scholars (with seventeen Ph.D.s among them), of ten different nationalities and an even greater number of ethnicities. The authors, who are scattered across the globe from North America through the South Pacific to East, Southeast and South Asia, have contributed to this book because they ...
Comprehensive studies on the evolutionary processes of crust in relation to metallogenesis constitute a sound basis to develop the concept-based models and strategies for mineral exploration in potential metallogenic domains worldwide. The Central Indian Precambrian Shield has attracted the attention of researchers as well as the exploration geologists and strategists from this viewpoint with increasing understanding about its mineral potentialities and related ...
The Book is the outgrowth of deep and active interest the authors have had in prawns and prawn fisheries, actively pursued over a few decades. In addition to their own work, they have drawn upon the existing literature in the field and informal discussions with research workers in the areas of their specialisation. The book has been received warmly as an excellent reference book for the students of Fishery Science and research workers, and also as a guide to the ...
This book deals with castes which practised female infanticide in west and north India during the 19th and 20th centuries. It shows how female infanticide was closely linked to the social structure of castes such as the Rajputs, Lewa Patidars Kanbis, Jats, Ahirs and Khutris. Further, it shows how female infanticide was related to hypergamy, status gradation within caste and avoidance of substantial dowry payments by parents on daughters weddings, caste ethos, the ...
Professor Basanta Kumar Sahu has been a pioneer in the use of statistical techniques in the study and interpretation of textural characteristics of sediments. He has also made significant contributions in the use of multivariate techniques and stochastic modeling in Earth Sciences. Professor Sahu inspired several generations of students to learn and use these techniques in various fields of geology. This collection of papers is brought out as a token of respect ...
The book incorporated twenty four invited articles contributed by the eminent scientists of India and abroad which covers practically almost all the sector of aquaculture and fisheries. These papers not only contain an uptodate informations but throws some light on the future line of research likely to be taken up in the respective field of fisheries science. The book will be a welcome addition because it would serve the long needed requirement of the scientists, ...
This review provides mixed messages. As far as men's reproductive health services are concerned, to date no effort has been made to achieve the ICPD agenda. However, the importance and urgency for addressing the needs of men's reproductive health are now better understood--both for the sake of women's reproductive health and for men themselves. A number of issues and action points have been identified for immediate program interventions. These issues could be ...
Historical demography is essentially a specialised branch of population studies which emerged only in the 1950s. Vigorous interest in historical demography has been witnessed in the last thirty years in France, England, U.S.A. and in other European countries. This is partially illustrated in the detailed list of 'References' in the book. Due to the paucity of annual series of data, it has not been possible to trace back the onset of fertility and mortality ...
"One of Asia's more fundamental social changes in recent years has been a rise in the age at marriage for women. This has important implications for a woman's role in society and the family. It also has been an important factor in many countries in reducing birth rates as an increased proportion of a woman's potential reproductive period is spent outside union. This has been particularly true in the case of Sri Lanka where women's age at marriage has risen ...
The Lahu mountain people, numbering some 700,000, are traditionally Swidden farmers, sharing with other peoples the rugged highlands that form the borderlands between China’s Yunnan Province and the Southeast Asian nations of Burma, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. Lahu ideas and practices related to the supernatural world include a traditional animism that affirms innumerable spirit entities with varying capacities to protect and to harm mortal ...
In the book Biodiversity of Mangrove Ecosystems, Prof. Kathiresan and Prof. Qasim have covered all the intricacies of the mangrove habitats, their characteristics, global distribution floral diversity in different parts of the world and occurrence of over 877 plant and 3066 animal species in the ecosystems. This book describes energy flow in mangrove ecosystems, ecological role of mangrovers, and their uses, causes of destruction and degradation and conservation ...
The present volume is the compendium of research papers deliberated in a three-day conference during the silver jubilee celebration of the Institute for research in Medical Statistics and the XX Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Medical Statistics in December 2002. It contains 40 articles illustrating wide spectrum of Biostatistical research. Most of the articles cover methodological issues pertaining to health and population and are arranged under 4 ...
The Central Indian region, in general, and Precambrian (shield) domains, in particular, are well known for the greatest manifestations of geological vicissitudes and economic geological propensity in the Indian Subcontinent. For various reasons, however, published works on their various aspects have yet to match the depth and substance of the available published literature on the Precambrians of the other regions, notably of southern and eastern and eastern ...
The present book "Population, Poverty and Health: Analytical Approaches" is a compilation of some selected papers presented in the XXIX Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) and National Seminar on Recent Statistical Technique for Data Analysis, organized at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi during 26-28 October 2007. There are 29 articles included in the book covering wide areas of population, poverty and ...