Télécharger le livre :  The Resilience of Traditional Knowledge Systems for a Sustainable Future

This book is an effort to draw attention to the resilience of traditional knowledge systems for a sustainable future in the Himalayas with a particular focus on agriculture and food practices. Through examples from the region, it underscores the importance of these...
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Parution : 2024-11-29
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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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics

This volume uses an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to assess various issues resulting from human-environment interactions in relation to sustainable development. The book encompasses theoretical and applied aspects, using both thematic and regional case...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-10-21
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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...
Editeur : Springer
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...
Editeur : Springer
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...
Editeur : Springer
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...
Editeur : Springer
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...
Editeur : Springer
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...
Editeur : Springer
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...
Editeur : Springer
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...
Editeur : Springer
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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-11-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Large Dams in Asia

This book explores the multi-dimensional asymmetries of scale, time, and directions in the large dam controversy with a regional focus on Asia, especially on India and China. Whereas the concept of large-scale transformation of fluvial environments into technological...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-11-18
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