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Published by B.R. Publishing Corporation BRPC, 2008
ISBN 10: 8176466255ISBN 13: 9788176466257
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. pp. x + 438, Maps, Index 1st Edition.
Published by B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2008
ISBN 10: 8176466255ISBN 13: 9788176466257
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
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Condition: New. pp. x + 438 Figures Maps.
Published by BRPC, New Delhi, 2008
ISBN 10: 8176466255ISBN 13: 9788176466257
Seller: Books in my Basket, New Delhi, India
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Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN: 9788176466257.
Published by B R Pub, Delhi, 2008
ISBN 10: 8176466255ISBN 13: 9788176466257
Seller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents 1. Introduction rural environmental management need of the hour/Abha Lakshmi Singh and Shahab Fazal. 2. Perspective of rural environment in India/Mohammed Shafi. 3. Rural transformations in Western Europe an overview/Guy M. Robinson. 4. Smart Growth as a management principle for rural urban fringes in the United States the Connecticut example/Timothy J. Rickard. 5. Countryside and tourism managing processes of social construction in the planning of future countrysides/Soumaya Frej Melanie Doyon Denis Granjon and Christopher Bryant. 6. Role of rural tourism in environmental management in India/Daksha Barai and Jayashree Madan Gopal. 7. Evaluating agricultural sustainability in rainfed regions in India/Kausalya Ramachandran T. Srinivas M. Shankar Rao M. Gayatri V. Bhaskar and Sreekant. 8. Female workers in the informal sector of Meerut District a spatial analysis/Haroon Sajjad and Abha Lakshmi Singh. 9. Marketable surplus in subsistence agriculture and rural development a case study of Jorhat District Assam/K.K. Gogoi and Surendra Singh. 10. Contract dairy farming and its socio economic relevance in North India a case study/Nizamuddin Khan and Md. Minhajul Hoda. 11. Environmental assessment of hydropower projects in the Himalayan Beas Valley of Himachal State India/Jagdish C. Kuniyal and Reeju Sharma. 12. Management of common pool waste land for sustainable rural development in Kumaon Himalayan a participatory approach/P.C. Tiwari and Bhagwati Joshi. 13. Spatial variation in lopping in Western Himalayas a case study of some selected villages in Ramnagar Forest Division Jammu and Kashmir/Shyamal Sarkar and Gurbakhsh Singh. 14. Irrigation induced agricultural development and land resource degradation in Haryana/M.S. Jaglan and Vijay Kumar. 15. Problems faced in Ravined villages in semi arid watersheds of Rajasthan/R.D. Doi. 16. Understanding environmental risks approaches and methods of model villages for rural development in Himalayas/Kaushal Kumar Sharma. 17. Pushkar a journey from a small village to a hot tourist spot and changing cultural landscape/Ajay Kumar Sharma. Index. The volume focuses on the growing concern of academia for rural environmental management. The volume throws light on issues associated with rural areas in rapidly changing economy highlighting potential synergies and conflicts between competing and conflicting goals. The volume highlights complex socio economic processes in rural areas resulting in inadequate development which are said to be the cause of environmental degradation. Although considerable efforts and various strategies through different programmes for sustainable rural development have been formulated. But it needs to shift in focus approach and design of intervention and organizational framework. The volume consists of 16 articles from eminent researchers working on rural area management. The research articles are empirical studies conducted in different rural areas projecting factual status of rural environment and its management. The volume investigates issues such as rural transformation smart growth sustainable development rural tourism agricultural sustainability agricultural marketing contract farming land degradation waste land management and watershed management. 438 pp.