Economic Geography and Development

Contents Preface Introduction I Theoretical issues in economic geography 1 Economic geography and developmentS Chinnammai and R Kanaka Sudha 2 Geographical variations and regional economic differences in IndiaJayanta Sen 3 Regional geography variations and economic changesAparna Bhardwaj Arun Kumar Thakur and Sangeeta Kumari 4 Insights from Paul Krugmans contribution to new economic geographySyeda Rukhsana Tabassum and Rafiq Zakaria 5 Does geography play a role in economic development Experiences in Indian economyManish Dev 6 Consequences of development-induced displacementRamanuj Sharma and Ushamani Kumari 7 Impact of climate change on rainfall and crop productivityRaghubansh Singh 8 Urbanisation and development issues and concernsJai Prakash and Shubha Singh 9 A study of geography of land and agricultural developmentShailesh Kumar and Ranjeet Kumar II Globalisation and economic geography 10 Spatial distribution of FDI in IndiaShyam Sunder Singh Chauhan Deepa Rawat and Deepti Sharma 11 Economic geography development in a changing globalisation scenario with special reference to IndiaDev Raj 12 Special economic zone and sustainable developmentAnath Bandhu Mukherjee 13 Underlying model of BPO regionalization with special reference to IndiaInderjeet Singh Reena Singh and Preti Singh 14 Momentum toward greater energy efficiency India after economic liberalisationBP Chandramohan and K Chitra Devi 15 Economic geography and SEZs in IndiaSubodh Kumar Sinha Vinod Kumar Sinha and Mirtunjay Pd Singh III Regionstates specific factors in India 16 Regional disparities in agricultural development of Orissa a quantitative analysisAryashree Debapriya and Sanjib Kumar Hota 17 Regional inequality in the development of infrastructure in MaharashtraTakale Dinkar 18 Economic impact of industrialisation on agricultural production in Coimbatore district Tamil NaduK Govindarajalu 19 Geography transformation and regional development a comparative study of coastal and landlocked states in IndiaP Anbalagan 20 Development and displacement a study on displaced people of Haldia Urban Industrial Complex West BengalSachinandan Sau and Anamitra Paul 21 Infrastructural determinants of inter-regional income disparities in IndiaMona Khare Neeti Shrivastave and Roopali Shivalkar 22 Desertification and development of drylandS Rangarajan 23 Keora a unique bio-resource of coastal region of Ganjam district in OrissaPurushottam Sahu and Nirmal Chandra Sahu 24 Area specific approach for balanced agricultural development in IndiaGN Sharma Arun Kumar and Mahendra Sah IV Socio-economic determinants 25 Regional disparity in health sector development with special reference to RajasthanAP Choudhary 26 Regional inequality and dynamics of socio-economic development an inter-state analysisAnju Kohli 27 Spatial patterns in national intellectual capital index of selected countriesParmod Kumar Amritpal Kaur and Rupinder Singh Sodhi 28 Children and health status impact of poverty education and discriminationNidhi Sadana IndexEconomic geography is the study of the location distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world It takes into account social cultural and institutional factors in the spatial economy The spatial distribution of economic activity is the result of agglomeration and dispersion forces Agglomeration arises due to proximity to large markets presence of a large variety of goods the ease of finding employment etc Dispersion on the other hand results due to congestion pollution more competitors higher prices of immobile factors etcIt is the interplay of and the relative changes in these agglomeration and dispersion forces that determine the spatial distribution of growth and developmentThe authors in this book have discussed the different paradigms of economic geography and analysed the various determinants of spatial disparities and suggested measures for equitable and inclusive growth as envisaged in the 11th Five Year Plan jacket 458 pp.…