Natural Resource Management
Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. New knowledge and rural development : a review of views and practicalities/Piers Blaikie. 2. The urban fringe of Delhi--the socio economic impact of the interpenetration of city and countryside/P.C.J. Druijven. 3. Impact of climatic change on water resource/R.B. Singh and Sheel Kumar. 4. Remote living--the case of Esperance, Western Australia/Roy Jones and Ian Alexander. 5. Participatory approach in transfer technology for ecologically and economically sustainable development/P.M. Tripathi. 6. GIS and remote sensing in natural resource mapping in Ferozpur Jhirka Block, District Gurgaon, Haryana/Saroj K. Pal and Dilip Kumar. 7. Tragedy of the commons--the forest, the state and the people/Poonam Kumria. 8. Geoinformatics for natural resources and environmental management at watershed level for sustainable development/A.K. Maji and G.P. Obi Reddy. 9. Limits and alternatives to its growth base/Nandeshwar Sharma. 10. Spatial planning for infrastructural development : a case study/S. Hasan Ansari and Tannu. 11. Comparative analysis of land-use, land cover changes in the headwater region of Beas, the Western Himalaya/B.W. Pandey. 12. Impact of development on the state of environment in Garhwal Himalayas/Mohan S. Panwar and V.S. Negi. 13. Land use change and urban sprawl analysis of Dehradun City/Anil Pal and M.S.S. Rawat. 14. Geographical dimensions of farmland/Tajbir Singh Rana. 15. Levels of development of human resources in Uttaranchal Himalaya/S.K. Bandooni. 16. The privatisation of water/Poonam Sharma. 17. Population and food grains per capita availability - a case study of Sultanpur District, U.P./Satyakam Arya. 18. Fifty years of agricultural development in India - a temporal analysis/G.S. Chauhan and R.S. Sangwan. 19. Socio-economic empowerment of women in Himachal Pradesh/S.K. Bandooni, V.S. Negi and N.P. Singh. 20. Socio-economic implications of rural development programme in Delhi/Subhash Anand. 21. Land transformation and its implication in national capital territory of Delhi/Vaneeta Chandna. 22. Water supply scenario in Delhi--Present trend and future projection/Chitra Sejwar. 23. Ground water depletion and degradation in the metropolitan fringe of Delhi/N.P. Singh. 24. Nature, ethnomedicine and livelihood/Alka Srivastava. 25. Sustainable initiative in brick making in developing countries--a study of industries around Delhi/Jag Mohan. 26. Detecting change in forest cover in Shimla District: using remote sensing and geographic information system/Praveen Mishra and Abhineety Goel. 27. Utilisation of wasteland in Ganga-Yamuna Doab/Manu Bajpai. 28. Water harvesting in the Tons watershed --Site suitability analysis for Dehra Dun Valley/Rani Sahay. 29. Conservation and management of forest in Delhi/Chitra Sejwar and Suraj Mal. 30. Urban expansion and land use studies through remote sensing and GIS techniques/Rupesh Kumar Gupta. Index.
"Natural resource management presents outstanding, current coverage of major issues and problems in resource conservation and management. Effective conservation depends primarily on a basic human respect for natural resources. The real substance of conservation lies not in the physical projects of government, but in the mental processes of citizens.
Natural resources are the basis of all economic and social activities. The euphoria for rapid economic development has created enormous pressure on natural resources. Degradation of natural resources have been caused by a variety of social, economic, institutional and technological factors. Rapidly growing population, urbanisation and industrial activities have all resulted in considerable deterioration in the quality and quantity of natural resources.
This book is an outcome of the valuable contributions made by eminent scientists, research scholars and teachers who have been striving to develop alternative strategies and solutions for natural resource management.
This book would be of immense use to the policy makers, environmentalists, academicians, research scholars and people in general concerned about the environment and natural resource management." (jacket)
