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Commercial Activities And Development In The Ganga Basin
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Author :Virendra Kumar Shrivastava Publisher :Concept Publishing Company ISBN 13 :9788170227793 Total Pages :512 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (277 download)
Book Synopsis Commercial Activities and Development in the Ganga Basin by : Virendra Kumar Shrivastava
Download or read book Commercial Activities and Development in the Ganga Basin written by Virendra Kumar Shrivastava and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at the IGU Regional Symposium on the Ganga Basin held in 1990 at the Dept. of Geography, University of Gorakhpur.
Book Synopsis Our National River Ganga by : Rashmi Sanghi
Download or read book Our National River Ganga written by Rashmi Sanghi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a plethora of information available on the river Ganga in the form of books, blogs, articles, websites, videos. Unfortunately, most of the information about this famous river is in a scattered form and reproduced from unverified sources. This contributed volume is the first multi-author volume publication on this subject. The River Ganga includes a vast array of topics written by several authors of distinction. Topics include; hydrology, tributaries, water uses, and environmental features such as river water quality, aquatic and terrestrial flora/fauna, natural resources, ecological characteristics, sensitive environmental components and more. Part I gives a basic introduction of the Ganga river. The existing data and available information from various sources has been compiled in a pictorial fashion in the form of cmaps. Its cultural importance with changing times is also discussed. Part II looks at the rich biodiversity of the Ganga Basin. It gives a detailed description of the major floral and faunal biodiversity with special emphasis on the national aquatic animal dolphin and Sunderbans, the largest mangrove wetland in the world. Part III examines ‘The Ganga Water as it flows’. It focuses on the water quality as well as its associated challenges. Part IV looks at the complexities of issues confronting the river ‘Ganga in changing times’ be it snowmelt runoff, river bank erosion hazards and hydropower assessments; how the factors of population, poverty and pollution contribute to the fate of the river. Part IV touches on economic aspects derived from the river such as business opportunities and tourism.
Book Synopsis Periodic Markets and Agricultural Development by : Virendra Kumar Shrivastava
Download or read book Periodic Markets and Agricultural Development written by Virendra Kumar Shrivastava and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Precious Cargo written by David Dewitt and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precious Cargo tells the fascinating story of how western hemisphere foods conquered the globe and saved it from not only mass starvation, but culinary as well. Focusing heavily American foods—specifically the lowly crops that became commodities, plus one gobbling protein source, the turkey—Dewitt describes how these foreign and often suspect temptations were transported around the world, transforming cuisines and the very fabric of life on the planet. Organized thematically by foodstuff, Precious Cargo delves into the botany, zoology and anthropology connected to new world foods, often uncovering those surprising individuals who were responsible for their spread and influence, including same traders, brutish conquerors, a Scottish millionaire obsessed with a single fruit and a British lord and colonial governor with a passion for peppers, to name a few. Precious Cargo is a must read for foodies and historians alike.
Author :Virendra Kumar Shrivastava Publisher :Concept Publishing Company ISBN 13 :9788170221944 Total Pages :538 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (219 download)
Book Synopsis Commercial Activities and Rural Development in South Asia by : Virendra Kumar Shrivastava
Download or read book Commercial Activities and Rural Development in South Asia written by Virendra Kumar Shrivastava and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ganges River Basin by : Luna Bharati
Download or read book The Ganges River Basin written by Luna Bharati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. The basin is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity from climatic, hydrological, geomorphological, cultural, environmental and socio-economic perspectives. More than 500 million people are directly or indirectly dependent upon the Ganges River Basin, which spans China, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. While there are many books covering one aspect of the Ganges, ranging from hydrology to cultural significance, this book is unique in presenting a comprehensive inter-disciplinary overview of the key issues and challenges facing the region. Contributors from the three main riparian nations assess the status and trends of water resources, including the Himalayas, groundwater, pollution, floods, drought and climate change. They describe livelihood systems in the basin, and the social, economic, geopolitical and institutional constraints, including transboundary disputes, to achieving productive, sustainable and equitable water access. Management of the main water-use sectors and their inter-linkages are reviewed, as well as the sustainability and trade-offs in conservation of natural systems and resource development such as for hydropower or agriculture.
Book Synopsis Ganga Rejuvenation: Governance Challenges And Policy Options by : Wu Xun
Download or read book Ganga Rejuvenation: Governance Challenges And Policy Options written by Wu Xun and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Attempts over the past three decades to clean up and rejuvenate one of the world's greatest rivers have proved futile. The major reasons for the lack of success are absence of long-term planning, poor co-ordination and failure to sustain whatever little infrastructure for water and sewage treatment could be developed. Focusing on these broad aspects, the book explores spaces for better governance through active community participation, knowledge management, prospects of Public-Private-Partnership, e-governance, youth education, waterfront development, lessons from past failures, comparative international analogies, utilization of external aid and global expertise in successful implementation of a sustainable long-term plan for a river basin's integrated development of both the economy and environment. A host of activities, such as, improving pollution monitoring systems, new development plans for tourism enhancement; river dredging and sewering riparian cities are already being carried in the hope of quick results. The Government of India has also appointed a task force for preparation of a long-term strategy. However, substantial knowledge gaps persist especially with regard to governance. This book aims to address the governance and policy issues and will be a very timely contribution to cleaning as well as rejuvenating Ganga, a river that is lifeline of millions of people. Contents: IntroductionHistorical Evaluation of Ganga Action Plans (Dawa Tshering, Denny Ariaputra, Soh Siew Luie, Tashi Tobgay and Wang Nian)Forming a Broad Umbrella: Facilitating Inter- and Intra-State Coordination (Hlaing Myat, Lay Sopagna, Sirilak Kakanopas, Soe Myint Aung, Visvanathakkurukkal Sokkanathan and Joost Buurman)Educating the Youth: Facilitating a Sustainable Transformation of Ganga (Low Lay Chin, Mark McKiernan, May Yu Lwin, Siow Boon Teik, Erwin and Thamil Selvan Govintharaju)Social Mobilisation: The Fight for Hearts and Minds in Ganga Rejuvenation (David Geordie Wilks, Gilbert E Lumantao, Giridharan Sengaiah, Gloria Wei Wanting, Karen Ann Leong Sun Lian and Khial Muhammad Afghanzai)Whither PPPs? Sustaining Sewage Infrastructure in Ganga Basin (Vishal Kapoor, Xuan Xiao, Zhang Jiapeng and Zhao Huaning)Principles of Waterfront Development — Lessons for Varanasi (Kok Hoong Chan, Thi Thanh Huyen Do, Lay Ling Lim, Salai Aung Myint and Shikha Thaman)Data Governance in Fostering Policy Coherence and Collaboration for Cleaning the River Ganga (Doris Maharlika H Dizon, Prudente S Parcia, Rakesh Kumar, Wai Min Kwok and Maitreyee Mukherjee)Creating a Knowledge Management Culture for Ganga River: An Essential Tool for Success (Thanathorn Asanarong, Sowon Jeon, Ren Yuanlin and Christopher Yeo)Regional Collaboration in the Ganga Basin: Prospects for a Cleaner Ganga and Regional Peace (Elijah Lau Maung-Hoe, Chang Lih Kang, Goh Si Mien, Tetsuya Lim Hayashi and Tran Thanh Tung)Managing Competing Demand for Water in the Ganga: Lessons from the Yellow River (Han Mingyu, Cao Dongdong, Li Na and Panji Ruky) Readership: Practitioners, policy-makers and civil society organizations that are working for the Ganga clean-up and rejuvenation; general public, NGOs, environment agencies and aid agencies interested in the topic. Keywords: Governance;Ganga Rejuvenation;Comparative Analysis;E-Governance;Knowledge Management;Waste Management;Resilience;Stakeholder Involvement;Institutional ReformsReview: Key Features: First of its kind to present governance issues that w
Book Synopsis Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development by : Ashok K. Dutt
Download or read book Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development written by Ashok K. Dutt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives. Papers go beyond explanations of methods, technique and traditional applications to explore new intersections in the dynamic relationship between the utilization and management of resources, and urban development. International authors explore numerous experiences, characteristics of development and decision-making influences from across Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as recounting examples from America and Africa. Papers propound techniques and methods used in geographical research such as support vector machines, socio-economic correlates and travel behaviour analysis. In this volume the contributors examine cutting-edge theories explaining diversity and dynamics in urban development. Topics covered include human vulnerability to hazards, space and urban problematic, assessment and evaluation of regional urban systems and structures and urban transformations as a result of structural change, economic development and underdevelopment. The significance of these topics lie in the pace and volume of change as is happening in geography reflecting continued development within established fields of inquiry and the introduction of significantly new approaches during the last decade. Readers are invited to consider the dynamics of spatial expansion of urban areas and economic development, and to explore conceptual discussion of the innovations in and challenges on urbanization processes, urban spaces themselves and both resource management and environmental management. Together, the two volumes contribute to the interdisciplinary literature on regional resources and urban development by collating recent research with geography at its core. Scholars of urban geography, human geography, urbanism and sustainable development will be particularly interested in this book.
Download or read book Indian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environmental History in the Making by : Estelita Vaz
Download or read book Environmental History in the Making written by Estelita Vaz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how our cultural background and examples of past territorial intervention can help to combat political and cultural limitations through the common language of environmental benefits without disguising harmful past human interventions. Considering that political ideologies such as socialism and capitalism, as well as religion, fail to offer global paradigms for common ground, an environmentally positive discourse instead of an ecological determinism might serve as an umbrella common language to overcome blocking factors, real or invented, and avoid repeating ecological loss. Therefore, agency, environmental speech and historical research are urgently needed in order to sustain environmental paradigms and overcome political, cultural an economic interests in the public arena. This book intertwines reflections on our bonds with landscapes, processes of natural and scientific transfer across the globe, the changing of ecosystems, the way in which scientific knowledge has historically both accelerated destruction and allowed a better distribution of vital resources or as it, in today’s world, can offer alternatives that avoid harming those same vital natural resources: water, soil and air. In addition, it shows the relevance of cultural factors both in the taming of nature in favor of human comfort and in the role of the environment matters in the forging of cultural identities, which cannot be detached from technical intervention in the world. In short, the book firstly studies the past, approaching it as a data set of how the environment has shaped culture, secondly seeks to understand the present, and thirdly assesses future perspectives: what to keep, what to change, and what to dream anew, considering that conventional solutions have not sufficed to protect life on our planet.
Download or read book The Geographer written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human Impact on Ganga River Ecosystem by : Sharad Bhalchandra Chaphekar
Download or read book Human Impact on Ganga River Ecosystem written by Sharad Bhalchandra Chaphekar and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Managing Urban Rivers by : Victor R. Shinde
Download or read book Managing Urban Rivers written by Victor R. Shinde and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Urban Rivers: From Planning to Practice captures the different facets of river management required for integrating rivers within the development landscape of cities in a sustainable manner. Sections cover the entire spectrum of urban river management, from planning to actual on-the-ground implementation, providing a one-stop destination for knowledge on urban river management. Edited by a team of four experts with practical experience in this domain, the different chapters of the book are authored by eminent scholars and practitioners with expertise in specific areas of urban river management. Urban rivers and their management is a hot topic as governments across the world are focusing on this aspect, especially since it has direct implications for SDG target 6.6, which aims to “protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes . Presents practical, global case studies in almost every chapter Provides recommendations for best practices, based on lessons from different successful case studies, as well as the expert insights of the authors Features contributions from global experts for a unique and specialized approach to the topic of urban rivers
Book Synopsis Urbanization in Garhwal Himalaya by : Surendra Singh
Download or read book Urbanization in Garhwal Himalaya written by Surendra Singh and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is designed to highlight the regional personality of the urbanization in this region. Care has been taken to present a balanced view. Development problems of the hill towns of the Garhwal Himalaya have also been discussed. This interdisiciplianary book is recommended to every studdent of geography, urban studies, town and country planning, regional studies, ekistics, urban sociology, demography, tourism and many other branches of social sciences and humanities.
Book Synopsis Environmental and social values of river water: Examples from the Menik Ganga, Sri Lanka by : Priyanka Dissanayake
Download or read book Environmental and social values of river water: Examples from the Menik Ganga, Sri Lanka written by Priyanka Dissanayake and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many decisions on water allocation in river basins are made on economic grounds. Environmental and social benefits of water should also be considered in river basin management, and attempts should be made to value them similarly. This is not a straightforward task and very few studies have directly addressed this issue to date. In this paper, the Menik Ganga (River) in southern Sri Lanka is used as a case study to attempt and evaluate the costs and benefits of environmental water allocations, referred to as ‘environmental flows™ (EF). In this study, a broad definition of EF is used: the components of EF evaluated include the requirements of the religious festival, the requirements of the Yala National Park, the requirements of the Pilinnawa Coastal Wetland and the requirements of the Yala Fishery Management Area, off the coast. Almost all estimates are based on use values of EF such as marketed goods and recreation. For some components multiple estimates have been attempted. The religious EF requirement is estimated using the cost of alternative water supplies. The benefits of the EF requirement for the Yala National Park are estimated using the forgone value of tourism in the dry season and the benefits of avoiding the Human-Elephant Conflict. The Additional expenditure for the park in the dry season is also presented as another proxy estimate of the benefits of EF. The Benefit Transfer method was used for the Pilinnawa Wetland and grassland due to data constraints. The market prices of lobster and income of chank divers are used as proxies for the economic benefits of EF to the Yala Fishery Management Area. Finally, the cumulative value of the individual components is presented and discussed. The paper intends to stimulate discussion and further research on the complex subject of valuing the social and environmental benefits of water whether it is in the Menik Ganga, elsewhere in Sri Lanka or elsewhere in the world.
Book Synopsis The OPEC Fund for International Development by : Ibrahim F. I. Shihata
Download or read book The OPEC Fund for International Development written by Ibrahim F. I. Shihata and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OPEC countries’ collective policy is to offer external development assistance free from political or commercial ties, with the purpose of expressing the solidarity of one group of developing countries with the rest. Since 1976, this policy has found vigorous practical expression in the operations and activities of the OPEC fund. First published in 1983, this book describes the Fund’s organisational evolution into a fully-fledged international body, detailing the fund’s achievements in providing loans and grants to over 80 countries with operations based on principles that have influenced the whole development movement. Concrete examples are outlined, such as where the fund has acted as a catalyst for development, or a spokesman for a group of countries in international negotiations.
Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set B: Aid by : Various Authors
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set B: Aid written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science. The books cover the most important themes within development and include studies of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Authors include Sir Alexander Cairncross, W. Arthur Lewis, Lord Peter Bauer and Cristobal Kay. An extensive collection of previously hard to access or out of print books, this set presents an unrivalled opportunity to build up a wealth of material in the field of development studies, with a particular focus upon economic and political concerns. The volumes in the collection offer both a global overview of the history of development in the twentieth century, and a huge variety of case studies on the development of individual nations. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact [email protected] (customers in the UK, Europe and Rest of World)
