Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Environmental Problems in Nepal
This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked country’s representativeness in the wider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable. In large part, this is because of its extremes of physiographical...

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Parution : 2020-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Land Degradation and Socio-Economic Development
This book offers an overview of recent literature on land degradation and its interrelationship with socio-economic development processes in the developing world. It provides an in-depth analysis of land degradation as a physical process, with an emphasis on the local...

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Parution : 2020-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Anthropogenic Tropical Forests
The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natural scientists and social scientists, the key focus is the process of commodification of nature that has turned the...

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Parution : 2019-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Irrigation Water Management for Agricultural Development in Uttar Pradesh, India
This book focuses on irrigation sources together with water management for agricultural development in Uttar Pradesh state of India. Being the most populous state of the country, it bears a burden of feeding about 199 million people of which major section relies on...

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Parution : 2019-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Contesting Conservation
This book explores today’s changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions. By carefully examining two such processes –...

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Parution : 2018-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Livelihood Pathways of Indigenous People in Vietnam's Central Highlands
This study focuses on impacts of the environmental and socio-economic transformation on the indigenous people's livelihoods in Vietnam's Central Highlands recent decades since the country's reunification in 1975.The first empirical section sheds light on multiple...

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Parution : 2018-01-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India
This multidisciplinary work analyses challenges to sustainable development amidst rapidly changing climate in the world’s largest delta – the Sundarbans. Empirical evidence unpacks grounded vulnerabilities and reveals their temporal socio-economic impacts. A novel...

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Parution : 2017-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Interference on River Health
This book examines in detail the health of India’s Haora River, which is of vital importance as the lifeline of Agartala, the Capital City of Tripura. From its source in the Baramura Hills, the river debouches onto the rolling plains of Chandrasadhubari. Thousands of...

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Parution : 2016-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Change and Human Health Scenario in South and Southeast Asia
This book is the first to present a regional analysis of climate change and human health, focusing on geographically and socio-economically distinct countries of South and Southeast Asia. It has a major focus on India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal...

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Parution : 2016-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Himalayan Border Region
Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe of India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is located in the...

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Parution : 2016-04-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Mapping Transition in the Pamirs
By emphasizing on the Pamir region a comprehensive overview of path-dependent and recent developments in a remote mountain region is provided in this book. Overall neglect in the mountainous periphery is contrasted by shifting the centre of attention to...

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Parution : 2016-01-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Assessing the Social Impact of Development Projects
This book shows how social impact assessment (SIA), which emerged barely five decades ago, as a way to anticipate and manage potentially negative social impacts of building dams, power stations, urban infrastructure, highways, industries, mining and other development...

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Parution : 2015-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure
This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta. In the last two decades, China's economy has been undergoing dramatic...

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Parution : 2015-07-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Integrated Studies of Social and Natural Environmental Transition in Laos
This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better...

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Parution : 2014-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Mutual Sustainability of Tubewell Farming and Aquifers
This book develops and presents a conceptual model for sustainable-groundwater irrigated agriculture. The model is based on the general principles of the economic theories of cost-benefit relations and behavioral models of resource use. The study has evaluated the...

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Parution : 2014-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  River Control in India
Large river systems throughout the planet have been dramatically transformed due to river control projects such as large dams and embankments. Unlike other major human impacts like anthropogenic climate change, the alteration of river systems has been deliberate and...

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Parution : 2014-02-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Creative Industry Districts
Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in...

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Parution : 2013-11-19
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Télécharger le livre :  North-East India: Land, People and Economy
North-East India, comprising the seven contiguous states around Assam, the principal state of the region, is a relatively unknown, yet very fascinating region. The forest clad peripheral mountains, home to indigenous peoples like the Nagas, Mizos and the Khasis, the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Khazan Ecosystems of Goa
This book elaborates on the Khazan ecosystems of Goa, India. Khazans are human-managed ecosystems, which are reclaimed from coastal wetlands, salt marshes and mangrove areas, where tidal influence is regulated through a highly structured system of dykes, canals,...

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Parution : 2013-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya
The Karakoram contains the greatest concentration of glaciers and most of the largest ice masses outside high latitudes. They comprise major stores and sources of fresh water in an otherwise extreme, continental, dry region. As many as 200 million people living...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-09-12
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