Resources and Regional Development in India: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Baleshwar Thakur

Book Details:

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Author: Rameshwar Thakur (Editor)

• Language: English

• Edition: First Edition

• ISBN: 9788131606414

• Pages: 416

• Cover: Hardcover

• Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches

About the Book:

Resource Usage and Regional Development in India is a festschrift in honor of Professor Baleshwar Thakur, examining the challenges emerging from the interplay of resource use and regional development in India. With contributions from leading scholars, the book is divided into two sections: Regional Resources and Regional Development, both aligned with Professor Thakur's academic interests.

In the first section, topics such as resource regions, globalization, land use changes, water crises, irrigation expansion, flood forecasting, water quality, and hydropower development are explored. The second section focuses on inter-state disparities, development indicators, sex ratio imbalances, economic trends, transportation, agricultural development, climate change impacts, and mitigation strategies. These chapters collectively examine how natural resources serve as a foundation for the development of regions in India, addressing the complex and dynamic relationships between resources and regional growth.

The book is interdisciplinary and will be of great value to students of geography, resource management, regional planning, and development, providing insights into contemporary challenges in managing India's resources for sustainable regional development.

Contents:

Part I: Regional Resources

1. Identification and Delimitation of Natural Resource Regions in Chotanagpur – Rameshwar Thakur

2. Resource Use and Agricultural Structure in Medieval India – Mohammad Dilshad

3. Mechanism of Land Transfer in Bihar – Rajeev Ranjan Kumar Sinha

4. Globalization, Land Use Changes, and Marginality of Livelihood in Western Himalayas – B.W. Pandey & Abhay Shankar Prasad

5. Water Crisis in India – Surendra Singh Chawla

6. Water Use and Its Management in Damodar River Basin – Rameshwar Thakur

7. Irrigation Expansion and Water Resources Development in Haryana – Inder Jeet

8. Irrigation Water Demand for the Hindon Basin – Preeti Sachar

9. The Enigma of Flood and Flood Forecasting Techniques – Shweta Rani

10. Sustainable Management of Floods in North Bihar – Sneh Gangwar

11. Problems and Prospects of Interlinking of Rivers in Bihar – D.P. Singh & R.B. Thakur

12. Water Quality and Water-Borne Diseases in Kanpur City – Kanchan Gupta

13. Impacts of Hydropower Development on Rural Livelihood Sustainability in Sikkim Himalayas – Aakash Upadhyay

Part II: Regional Development
14. Globalizing India and Inter-State Disparities – Guljit K. Arora
15. Indicatorsmithy for Measuring Development – Rajesh Kumar Abhay
16. Sex Ratio Imbalances in India – Monica Ahlawat
17. Borrowing Trend Economy and its Impact on Education in Isolated Rural Areas – Om Jee Ranjan & Anjan Sen
18. Exclusion of the Scheduled Caste Population in Professional Occupations in Uttar Pradesh – Vinod Kumar & Ajit Kumar
19. Growth, Morphology, Society Problems, and Management of Chandannagar City, West Bengal – Mitrajit Chatterjee & Nageshwar Prasad
20. Urban Household Perception of Climate Change and Mitigation Preferences in Dehradun City, Uttarakhand – Swati Thakur
21. Delhi’s Master Plan for 2021 – Priyanka Puri
22. Road Transport and Agricultural Development in Himachal Pradesh – Manjit Singh
23. Delimiting Road Transport Regions and Its Impact on Regional Development of Gaya District – Krishna Kumar & Anjan Sen
24. Geosheelitics – Sudeepta Adhikari
25. Impact of Climate Change on South Asian Forests – Swarnima Singh
26. Vulnerability in Mountain Systems to Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards – Krishnanand
27. Rehabilitation Efficacy of Kutch (Bhuj) Earthquake – Barun Kumar

About the Author / Editor:

• Rameshwar Thakur is a former Associate Professor of Geography at B.R. Ambedkar College, University of Delhi. His research interests include Historical Geography, Regional Development, Agricultural Geography, and Cartography.

• Inder Jeet is a Professor of Geography at MD University, Rohtak, Haryana, with research interests in Water Resource Management, Climatology, Remote Sensing, and GIS.

• Rajesh Kumar Abhay is an Assistant Professor in Geography at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, specializing in Natural Resource Management, Regional Planning, and Development.

• Swati Thakur is an Assistant Professor in Geography at Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi, focusing on Climate Change, Resource Management, and Environmental Studies.