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yhteensä 14 hakutulosta
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, …
Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya
The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there. In recent years, the town has …
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 …
Climate, Land-Use Change and Hydrology of the Beas River Basin, Western Himalayas
There is a need of strengthening the global and local response to cope with the threat of climate change and adverse effects of rising anthropogenic activities in the mountain …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …