Edited by K N Singh S K Singh and S N Singh (7 results)

Contents Foreword Preface 1 Integrated Land and water management with particular emphasis on water management in IndiaSC Mukhopadhyay 2 Land useLand cover analysis using remote sensing and geographical information system GIS with special reference to an urban areaNutan Tyagi 3 GIS and water quality management A case study of eastern Uttar PradeshKN Singh Rajneesh Kumar and SN Singh 4 Urban encroachment in remganga riparian zone and its environmental effect on Moradabad citySatyendra Kumar 5 Current environmental issues planning and managementSadanand Gupta and Deep Narayan Pandey 6 Food security in IndiaSadanand Gupta and Kumar Veer Dhirendra 7 Noise pollution Sources Health effects and control techniquesAlok Kumar Srivastava and Sadanand Gupta 8 Regional development in India Paradigm and paradozesSadanand Gupta and Alok Kumar Srivastava and eight articles are in HindiThe present volume brings together sixteen research paper which were contributed to 17 IRED national seminar on Integrated land and water management for food security in India organized by Department of Geography Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grakhur University Gorakhpur on February 8-9-2009 The initiative taken by the editor of this volume for inviting papers form a group of geographers and researchers of other disciplines having interest on problem of land and water management as well as challenges of food security and to bring them together for discussions on this theme fills an important gap in the field of Indian studies on integrated land and water management In my survey of studies on land use and water management researches are in plenty but studies on integrated land and water management are rare It is noticeable that with growing problem of water resource there is challenge to planners and policy makers to introduce cropping pattern according to availability of water resource The present volume is a significant attempt to fulfill the present gap in geographical studiesWe hope that this volume will stimulate many geographers as well as young researchers to contribute studies on planning for integrated land and water management as well as food security which fill up adequately the serious gaps and difficiencies in the studies by agricultural scientists and Geographers 188 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. Key to the families. 1. Orchidaceae. 2. Zingiberaceae. 3. Marantaceae. 4. Musaceae. 5. Cannaceae. 6. Heliconiaceae. 7. Bromeliaceae. 8. Haemodoraceae. 9. Dioscoreaceae. 10. Taccaceae. 11. Smilacaceae. 12. Agavaceae. 13. Hypoxidaceae. 14.Amaryllidaceae. 15. Burmanniaceae. 16. Iridaceae. 17. Pontederiaceae. 18. Xyridaceae. 19. Commelinaceae. 20. Flagellariaceae. 21. Juncaceae. 22. Arecaceae. 23. Pandanaceae. 24. Typhaceae. 25. Araceae. 26. Lemnaceae. 27. Alismataceae. 28. Najadaceae. 29. Hydrocharitaceae. 30. Liliaceae. 31. Aponogetonaceae. 32. Potamogetonaceae. 33. Eriocaulaceae. 34. Hydatellaceae. 35. Cyperaceae. 36. Poaceae. References. Index to botanical names. Index to local/vernacular names/common English names.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents Preface Part A Concept Approaches and Dimensions of Sustainable Development 1 Mahatma Gandhi?s Vision of Sustainable DevelopmentRana PB Singh 2 Climate Change and Sustainable Development The Global ConcernHifzur Rehman and Suman Lata 3 Corporate Responsibility towards Sustainable Development An Indian PerspectiveHK Singh and FB Singh 4 Guinea Fowl Farming A Model for Rural Prosperity and Sustainable DevelopmentBrijesh Singh RS Barwal and Peerzada Suhail Ahmad 5 Natural Capital and Corporate SustainabilityMitrabinda Singh 6 Towards a Socially Sustainable India An Analysis of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme 2006Rituparna Bhattacharyya Polly Vauquline and Suman Singh 7 Conception of Man and Nature in Different Traditions Quest for Ecological SustainabilityBikramaditya K Choudhary and KG Choudhary 8 Envisioning Sustainable DevelopmentMamta Mokta 9 Information Technology and Sustainable Development of AgricultureAshutosh Kr Dubey and Vibha Singh 10 Strategic Management for Rural Development The Role of Banking SectorAkhilesh Kumar Verma Vivek Kumar Singh Vibha Singh Abhijeet Singh 11 Part B Energy Resources and Alternative Search 11 Strategic Management of Energy for Sustainable DevelopmentVivek Singh Abhijeet Singh Ashutosh Mishra Vibha Singh 12 Environmental Effects of Wind Power and its development as an Alternative Source of EnergyDJ Desai R N Desai and HN Pandya 13 Geopolitics of Energy Resources and India?s Energy SecuritySarfaraz Alam 14 Energy AuditAbhijeet Singh Ashutosh Mishra Vivek Kr Singh Vibha Singh 15 Hydropower Environmental Boon or BaneSK Gupta P Sivakumar and SK Singh 16 India Sustainable Development and EnergyBabita Kumari and Gayatri Rai 17 Financial Implications of Energy Management Practices Issues and ConcernsGS Rathore and Gyanndra BS Johri 18 Future Market Penetration of Solar EnergyS Chinnammai and MR Sasikala 19 Alternative Sources of Energy in IndiaRVenkatesan 20 Development of Alternative Sources of EnergySC Singh RV Rai and NB Singh 21 Jetropha Curcas-Source of Bio-diesel a Future FuelLavneet Singh and Salveen Singh 22 Bio-diesel by Carbon Sequestration of Thermal Power Plants through AlgaeRVRai and SC Singh 23 Sustainable Energy A Strategy of Energy SecuritySuwa Lal Jangu and Kausik Ghosh 24 Public-Private-Partnership in Rural PowerVinita Kalra HP Mathur and Namrata Shah 25 Promoting Bio-Fuel by Industries A ReviewDebabrata MajiSustainability is usually interpreted as a constraint on economic growth namely non-decreasing welfare This interpretation is quite a strict criterion as any temporary decrease in welfare implies unsustainable development Moreover representatives from civil society organizations got involved in this discussion very early and they also agreed on the concept of sustainable development as a basis for jopint action While Nelson Mandela Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi succeeded in forming powerful national movements sustainable development is the first global attempt to realize the dream of perfect social integrationEquity and justice are important for sustainable development It is multidimensional that includes equity among nations like rich nations poor nations developed and developing nations equity within countries between regions social classes genders sectors of activities equity between generations and equity between economics and ecology and science and spirituality the environmental regeneration must be such as to lead to an increase in biomass that will both foster environmental stability and contribute to the sustainable livelihood security of the rural poor careful industrialization implying considerable technology transfer from north to southSustainable Development is often illustrated as a utopian concept of total integration referring to at least three different dimensions targets territories and time and of adequate management rules to use limited resources on the grass-roots level for environment friendly and economically sound global devel.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents Foreword Preface I Status of natural resources 1 Status of natural resources for food and environmental security in Central IndiaVN Sharda 2 Soil health is the health and wealth of the nation and its productivity is Nations wealth reserveRN Gupta 3 Assessment of wastelandsdegraded lands in central India using remote sensing and GIS techniques with special reference to Uttar PradeshAlok Mathur 4 Diatomological analysis of water bodies of Semi arid region of Central IndiaMeenakshi Singh Payal Lodha GP Singh and Rajesh Singh 5 Assessment of permissible soil erosion limits for different landscapes of Chhattisgarh in IndiaBrij Lal Lakaria H Biswas and D Mandal 6 Mapping gullied wastelands along Gomti river in Uttar Pradesh using IRS LISS III dataAlok Mathur S Chandra M Mishra RS Rawat and AR Siddiqui 7 Analysis of rainfall for crop planning in Bundelkhand zone of Uttar PradeshMukesh Chand Dushyant Kumar Dhananjai Singh Nishi Roy and DK Singh II Management and efficient utilization of water resources 8 A decision support tool to explore and promote conjuctive use options in canal commandA Upadhyaya AK Sikka AK Singh and PR Bhatnagar 9 Ground water quality for irrigation in Datia District Madhya Pradesh an assessmentH Biswas PP Adhikary SP Tiwari and Sant Raj 10 Economic water productivity of drum kit drip irrigation systems for vegetable productionSS Mali and S Kumar 11 Groundwater use efficiency and price equilibrium of groundwater use in central plain zone of Uttar PradeshSK Srivastava Ranjit Kumar and RP Singh 12 Participatory action research for irrigation water management in sugarcane cultivationDV Yadav RP Verma Kamta Prasad AK Sah Rajendra Gupta and KP Singh III Conservation technologies for food and environmental security 13 Agro forestry practices in Central India prospects and potentialsRK Dubey and SK Dubey 14 Measures for enhancing crop productivity and resource use efficiency in rainfed vertisols of Madhya PradeshSS Tomar and SK Sharma 15 Agri horti system for sustainable production on degraded lands in Semi arid tropicsOm Prakash RK Dubey and JS Deshwal 16 Nutrient uptake of tomato F1 Hybrid Avinash 2 as affected by irrigated methods and micronutrientsB Agrawal A Shrivastava NK Toorray and RN Sharma 17 Impact of long term fertilizer and manure use on crop productivity and soil fertility in rice rice cropping system in contrast soilsRH Wanjari and Muneshwar Singh 18 Edaphic constraints vis-a-vis conservation practices for increasing productivity of rainfed lands in Bundelkhand regionSP Tiwari Dev Narayan and H Biswas 19 Sustainable crop production through efficient nutrient management and other agro-techniques a reviewOm Singh 20 Food legumes in cropping systems for resources conservation food and environment security challenges and opportunitiesVS Lather RS Pannu DP Nandal and Ishwar Singh IV Livelihood security and watershed management 21 Land use planning and watershed management for livelihood securityJS Bali 22 Sustainable management of cropping systems in Central Indian for food and environmental securityPK Panda SK Dubey and AK Singh 23 Impact evaluation of soil and water conservation measures in tribal area of District Satna MPVP Singh VK Kanaujia and SN Singh 24 Assessing the impact of water management in Bareilly District of Uttar PradeshPankaj Sharma RK Singh and Kapil 25 Role of Sugarcane in sustaining soil health in rice-wheat sequence in Indo-Gangetic plainsGK Singh and DV Yadav V Rehabilitation of problem lands Salins Alkali Ravines Riveine Lands Diava land etc 26 Rehabilitation of problem lands challenges and opportunitiesJC Dagar PS Minhas and Gurbachan Singh27 Land degradation in Central India the concern of sustainable food securitySK Dubey and RK Dubey 28 Soybean based intercropping system for sustainable production under rainfed condition in Bundelkhand regionDev Narayan and H Biswas  29 Watershed based reclamation and control of Chambal ravinesGP Verma YP Singh and SK Dubey 30 Deriving hom.

3 Vols. Contents Vol I Part A Concept approaches and dimensions of sustainable development 1 Mahatma Gandhi?s vision of sustainable developmentRana PB Singh 2 Climate change and sustainable development the global concernHifzur Rehman and Suman Lata 3 Corporate responsibility towards sustainable development an Indian perspectiveHK Singh and FB Singh 4 Guinea Fowl farming a model for rural prosperity and sustainable developmentBrijesh Singh RS Barwal and Suhail Ahmad 5 Natural capital and corporate sustainabilityMitrabinda Singh 6 Towards a socially sustainable India an analysis of natinal rural employment guarantee scheme 2006Rituparna Bhattacharyya Polly Vauquline and Suman Singh 7 Conception of man and nature in different traditions quest for ecological sustainabilityBikramaditya K Choudhary and KG Choudhary 8 Envisioning sustainable developmentMamta Mokta 9 Information technology and sustainable development of agricultureAshutosh Kr Dubey and Vibha Singh 10 Strategic management for rural development the role of banking sectorVivek Singh Abhijeet Singh Ashutosh Mishra and Vibha Singh Part B Energy resources and alternative search 11 Straetgic management of energy for sustainable developmentVivek Singh Abhijeet Singh Ashutosh Mishra and Vibha Singh 12 Environmental effects of wind power and its development as an alternative source of energyDJ Desai RN Desai and HN Pandya 13 Geopolitics of energy resources and India?s energy securitySarfaraz Alam 14 Energy auditAbhijeet Singh Ashutosh Mishra Vivek Kr Singh and Vibha Singh 15 Hydropower environmental bon or baneSK Gupta P Siva Kumar and SK Singh 16 India sustainable development and energyBabita Kumari and Gayatri Rai 17 Financial implications of energy management practices issues and concernsGS Rathore and Gyanendra BS Johri 18 Future market penetration of solar energyS Chinnammai and MRSasikala 19 Alternative sources of energy in IndiaR Venkatesan 20 Development of alternative sources of energySC Singh RV Rai and NB Singh 21 Jetropha curcas source of bio diesel a future fuelLavneet Singh and Savleen Singh 22 Bio diesel by carbon sequestration of thermal power plants through algaeRV Rai and SC Singh 23 Sustainable energy a strategy of energy securitySuva Lal Jangu and Kausik Ghosh 24 Public private partnership in rural powerVinita Kalra HP Mathur and Namrata Shah 25 Promoting bio-fuel by industries a reviewDebabrata Maji Vol II 1 Opencast coal mining in Northern Coalfields Limited-an Environmental friendly approachVK Singh and N Das 2 Development and social environment conflicting domainsAradhana Borthakur 3 Development and environment a plan to reduce contradictionSunita Singhal and Jitendra Singhal 4 Promoting environmental protection through Indian mythologyRenu Rai 5 The green concrete making with utilization of Oman Sea Chalky SeashellAhmad Soltan Zadeh Fatemeh Soltanzadeh and Zahra Soltanzadeh 6 Ponds and water bodies in the city of Varanais stae of the artAjai Srivastava and Kshitij Mohan 7 Watr quality index Wqi of the western zone of Narmada River Madhya Pradesh a preimpoundmental studyVirendra K Soni Mukesh S Mewada Mohammad D Hussain and Sharad Shrivastava 8 Water management traditions in rural India crediting the UnaccreditedSanjay Bharti Brijendra Singh Yadav and Brijesh Kumar Yadav 9 The impact of over-exploitation of iron ore resourceson the ecosystem and bio-diversity of Bellary Hospet area bellary KarnatakaMR Patil and Sharath Kumar Bhoja 10 Biodiversity depletion and its conservation through restoration of the forest ecosystem in Gaya District a study in environmental geographyKaushalendra Prakash Goswami 11 Sustainable waste management options and opportunities in Kolkata CitySarbani Sanyal and VK Kumra 12 Strategic planning for sustainable urban management Madhya Pradesh in focusArun K Singh13 Strategic approaches to urban air quality management in Addis Ababa EthiopiaAlok Tiwari 14 Prioritizing ecological considerations ecological considerations in urban governanceS.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. figs, tables (illustrator). Contents Preface 1 Strategic management of disasterUrmilesh Singh and Narendra Mohan Verma 2 A study in the role of sustainable development approach in the prevention and mitigation of disaster a holistic approachDebdas Ganguly and Kaushik Kundu 3 Disaster Vs economy drive a chronological analysis of global disasters from 20th century to till dateKusumakar Gautam Akhilesh Chaubey Dheeraj Kumar Verma Ms Safal Ambuhang Subba Manish Kumar Saket Kushwaha Chandra Sen Alok Rai and Rohan Rai 4 Geography and disaster managementNarender Verma and Murareelal Meena 5 Strategic management of disaster for sustainable development risk assessment mitigation and managementAjay Kumar Mishra Ashutosh Kumar Singh and Shalini Srivastava 6 Strategy for sustainable management of disasters in IndiaAli Mohammad and Abdul Bari Naik 7 Adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate changeRaj Kumar and Priyanka Sharma Anand 8 Managing social disasters for sustainable development focus on domestic violenceUsha Kiran Rai Monica Srivastava and Ranjana Pandey 9 Recent flood of the Puthimari river in the Rangia region of Kamrup district in Assam India and its consequencesJyotishmoy Bora and Bimal Kumar Kar 10 Opportunities in environmental management for disaster risk reductionArti Singh and Shilpam Chandra 11 Essence and consequence of Bihar Government and UNDP disaster management Program DMP for diminution of natural disaster in BiharPrince Divakar Saxena 12 Disaster risk management in mountains a case for the Indian Central Himalayan regionVishwambhar Prasad Sati 13 Slow onset disasters livelihoods and sustainability some facts from field and emerging questionsRavi S Singh 14 Risk assessment mitigation and management of disaster case of Kosi floodsRakesh Kumar Sinha 15 Role of microfinance in disaster management potential problems and prospectsShweta Rai and Amrita Keshari 16 Socio-economic aspects of disaster reduction and responseAvdesh Bhardawaj Shukti Tomar and Anand Kumar Gupta 17 Peoples participation in disaster managementAkbar Ali 18 Strengthening community disaster coping mechanism through district and village disaster management planning and CBDRMGopal Krishna Pandey 19 Social disaster an outlineAbhjeet Singh and Tanuj Chandra 20 Disaster management and its important elementsAshok Kumar Sinha 21 Managing disaster aftermath through psychological economical interventionAlpana Mohan and Ishi Mohan 22 State of sanitation in Varanasi city a geographical studyAmrita Dwivedi and VK Kumra 23 Development project and its impact on local economy and social conditions a case study of Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant Kolaghat Purba Medinipur West BengalArindam Das Gupta and Sambhunath Dinda 24 The tragedy of Copenhagen climate conference the infinite saga of clash of interestBhaskar Chaudhuri 25 Gender and sustainable development in mines sector in IndiaHP Mathur RS Mishra and Irfan Ahmed Khan 26 Climate change and India-issues and policy implicationsRS Mishra and Irfan Ahmed Khan 27 Role of water index insurance in managing climate riskHP Mathur and Vinita Kalra 28 South Asian tsunami 2004 a case study of tsunami disaster management in Sri-LankaMuraree Lal Meena Chitra Meena and Narendra Verma 29 Natural disaster and health management a study of Bangladesh as post disaster approachNiranjan Sahoo 30 Awareness and implementation of disaster management strategies a study of Vindhyachal MandalRaj Kiran Prabhakar and Apurba Mukherjee 31 Strategic management of environment and disaster for sustainable development in the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra basin India and its neighborhoodSC Mukhopadhyay 32 Risk assessment for flood hazard through RS and GIS a case study on southernmost blocks of the districts of 24 Parganas West BengalSuman Paul 33 Mitigation measures for climate changes a case study of IndiaAkhilesh Kumar Verma Vibha Singh Abhijeet Singh and Vivek Kumar SinghThe word disaster denotes a high magnitude low probability tragic event or mishappening caused either natura.

Contents Preface Contributors 1 Opencast coal mining in northern coalfields limited an environmental friendly approachVK Singh and N Das 2 Development and social environment conflicting domainsAradhana Borthakur 3 Development and environment a plan to reduce contradictionSunita Singhal and Jitendra Singhal 4 Promoting environmental protection through Indian mythologyRenu Rai 5 The green concrete making with utilization of Oman Sea Chalky SeashellAhmad Soltan Zadeh Fatemeh Soltanzadeh and Zahra Soltanzadeh 6 Ponds and water bodies in the city of Varanasi State of the ArtAjai Srivastava and Kshitij Mohan 7 Water Quality Index WQI of the Western Zone of Narmada River Madhya Pradesh a preimpoundmental studyVirendra K Soni Mukesh S Mewada Mohammad D Hussain and Sharad Shrivastava 8 Water management traditions in rural India crediting the unaccreditedSanjay Bharti Brijendra Singh Yadav and Brijesh Kumar Yadav 9 The impact of over exploitation of iron ore resources on the ecosystem and bio diversity of Bellary Hospet area Bellary KarnatakaMR Patil and Sharath Kumar Bhoja 10 Biodiversity depletion and its conservation through restoration of the forest ecosystem in Gaya District a study in environmental geographyKaushalendra Prakash Goswami 11 Sustainable waste management options and opportunities in Kolkata CitySrabani Sanyal and VK Kumra 12 Strategic planning for sustainable urban management Madhya Pradesh in focusArun K Singh 13 Strategic approaches to urban air quality management in Addis Ababa EthiopiaAlok Tiwari 14 Prioritizing ecological considerations in urban governanceSumana Bandyopadhyay 15 Soil organic matter management for sustainable wheat crop production through multipurpose tree leaf applicationRajni Srivastava and KP Singh 16 Strategic management of urban agriculture in Kolkata a case study of DhapaSayantani Sarkar 17 Agro ecosystem analysis of zero tillrice wheat cropping system of Indo Gangetic plainMK Singh and Naveen Khanal 18 Environmental auditing new thrust areasParag Prakash 19 Strategic initiatives in corporate social responsibility towards ecological concernsAlok Kumar 20 Critical issues pertaining to the trading of carbon credits in the global marketplaceAmit Gautam and Amitabh Pandey 21 Global green finance issues and approaches for ensuring better environmental protection and sustainable developmentShyam Lal Dev Pandey 23 Green marketing challenges for the Third WorldManish Srivastava and Meenakshi A Singh 24 Legal provisions for environment protection in IndiaShiv Kumar 25 Environmental laws intent and practicalAbhishek Kumar 26 Environmental laws in India issues and challengesRavi Shekhar Vishal and Shardul Chaubey 27 Environmental education for sustainable development and managementGopal Kumar Singh and Rajeev Kumar Singh 28 Behaviour and attitude of undergraduate students towards environmental awareness a case studyArun Kumar Singh Shashi Singh and Vipin Kumar Singh 29 Data requirements for building water resource management module in municipal GIS?s for managing urban environmentSatyam Mishra 30 Management of environment role of microfinance institutionsHP Mathur and Sofia Khan 31 Climate change a multiplier of food insecurity a scenario of NepalSafal Ambuhang Subba Sushila Kushmakar Gautam Saket Kushwaha and Chandra Sen 32 Management and monitoring of environment the Indian contextSatish Modi 33 Environment awareness through geography in schoolsAlbert Horo 34 Engaged and applied Buddhism a quest towards the strategic management of environmental conservationOnkar Nath Singh and Rahul Raj 35 Conservation of plant genetic resources for sustainable development of agro economy of Uttrakhand Himalayas a case study of Basmati cultivation of DehradunMP Singh and DK Shahi 36 Environmental management sustainable development and health in Kanpur CitySupriya Srivastav and Kanchan Gupta 37 Municipal solid waste management a case study of Varanasi CityShweta Yadav and Ram Bilas 38 Urban environmental problem of so.