Citizens around the world use crowdsourced platforms to hold governments accountable, to fill gaps in infrastructural and municipal services, and to call attention to issues that impact everyday lives, such as sexual violence and environmental injustice.
Citizens around the world use crowdsourced platforms to hold governments accountable, to fill gaps in infrastructural and municipal services, and to call attention to issues that impact everyday lives, such as sexual violence and environmental injustice.
This book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies.
Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe.
The book Text Book of Practical Geography' provides a systematic knowledge of practicals in geography for the graduate students especially and concerned teachers as well as for those who have not studied the subject.
Social Geography of India presents aspects of the spatial organisation of Indian Society in its ethnic, tribal, caste, linguistic and religious dimensions.
The accelerating expansion of Indian cities and towns during recent decades is making increasingly serious inroads into formerly rural territories and confusion is usually a major characteristics of the overmoving boundary between the two.
This compendium of twelve papers, presented at a national seminar on River Systems in the North Eastern India and their impact upon the Region's Environmental Development, held at St.
The study highlights the process of agglomeration of people and their activities under the impact of the technological revolution which has greatly changed the urban size of major Indian cities.
Systematic structural and behavioural changes are essential to institutionalize district development planning as a full-fledged and viable system within the framework of multilevel planning.
The present study deals essentially with the inherent centripetal and centrifugal forces operating within the geographical environment of land-locked Afghanistan.
Lexicon on Geography of Development attaches core significance on study of spatial differentiation of land domain operated through flux and flow of scale division of labour and capital respectively.
Providing for the multiple and varying needs of today's growing populations in the metropolises is an important form of commercial activity which entails a great deal of organization based on the twin factors of demand and supply.
Despite us curious bow-tie shape, Zambia, the former Northern Rhodesia, is more fortunate than most other landlocked countries of Africa, because it has profited from the extraction of one major mineral resource, copper.
Environmental Geomorphology is an anthology of contemporary trend of research on multitudinal aspects of applied geomorphology by more than thirty distinguished scholars of the discipline.
Creating effective, ethical, and lasting solutions to the world's problems requires that today's students mature into adults who can make skilled and informed use of geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives to identify possible solutions, predict their consequences, and implement the appropriate solutions.
Environmental geography is the branch of geography that describes and explains the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world.
Today, when we are faced with the crucial problem of relentless pressure of human and cattle population on the limited land resources, attended by widespread poverty, malnutrition and low economic level, it seems imperative to undertake a factual survey of these resources to ascertain the use and misuse of land, its actual and potential resources and their proper utilisation and conservation with more emphasis on Problem Areas.
A great variety of topics covering the economic aspects of human societies have been discussed, it is hoped that the work shall be of immense help to the planners, policy makers, regional planners, students, teachers, and experts of environmental protection and management.
Geographers for the last few decades are devoting a great deal of energy to the spatial distribution of natural and human resources, their use, under use and mis-use.
Since a great variety of topics covering the economic aspects of human societies have been discussed, it is hoped that the work shall be of immense help to the planners, policy makers, regional planners, students, teachers, and experts of environmental protection and management.
Designed and compiled to present in brief the changing methodology and emphasis of Regional Geography, the book may serve as a base book for the teachers, researchers and students alike and may guide the planners and decision makers who are interested in designing judicious policies for the well-being of mankind and for keeping the regional and world environment in a clean and healthy condition.
The present book ';Social Geography' consists of sixteen leading articles, covering the areas from topical to regional and from theoretical to empirical studies.
In the present book seventeen research papers have been arranged in such a way so that the conceptual background, scope and limitations of the discipline may be clearly understood.
Geography throughout its history and development has been confronted with the problems of explorations, discoveries, cartography, philosophy, methodology, generalization and theory building.