Population Development and Environment: An Indian Experience

Contents: Section 1: Concept of Population, Development and Environment. 1. Population growth and environmental saga of a hill city: A case study of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh/Seema Chaudhary and D.D. Sharma. 2. Slums: A concomitant effect on population, development and environment/Sujata Mishra and Rashmi Rekha Barik. 3. Assessment of household’s amenities and environments: an analysis of geographical variations in Maharashtra/Jamadar M.M., Sunil T. Sarode and Donald R.M. 4. Impact of climatic changes on the sustainable development of Indian economy/Ruqayya Alvi. Section 2: Population, Environment and Health. 5. Climate change: an impact on maternal health/Absar Ahmad. 6. Impact of households’ environmental factors on acute respiratory infections among children under age 5 in India/Vipul Vaibhav Pandey, Dr. Rajesh Shukla, Dr. S. K. Singh and Arpita Das. 7. A comparative study of the effect of household and environmental factor on child mortality in Southern and Northern States of India/Kamalesh Kumar Patel. 8. Quality of water and sanitation and its association with child health in India/Pallavi Gupta. Section 3: Population and Agricultural Development. 9. Trends in population growth and sustainability of food-grain production in Himachal Pradesh/Prince Mohan and Khyal Chand. 10. Linkage between agricultural productivity and socioeconomic development of Bankura District, West Bengal/Subhasis Nandi and Sanjit Sarkar. 11. Self-sufficiency in agriculture and growing hunger/Poorti Chaturvedi. 12. Food production, population growth and food security in India: Performance and challenges/Rajan Kumar Gupt, Prahlad Kumar and T. Masthanaiah. 13. Impact of population growth on food security in India/Prasanna Joshi, Uma Swadimath and Raghavendra Hajgolkar. 14. Performance of agricultural productivity in Maharashtra: An analysis of Kendall’s method/Pratibha Tomar. Section 4: Impact of Urbanization. 15. Impact of urbanization on agricultural land and food production: a case study in NCR Region, Haryana, India/Sandeep Kumar and Manju Sharma. 16. Impact of urbanization on environs of Amritsar City, Punjab/S.S. Khaitan. 17. Access to sanitation facilities in slums of India/Dr. Harvinder Singh and Satinder Kaur. Section 5: Population and Water Resource. 18. Declining ground water resources in Punjab/Dr. Jaspal Singh. 19. Water supply situation in Kolkata Metropolitan Area/Debjani Mitra. 20. Progress towards accessibility and availability of drinking water facility in India: A study in context of rural-urban differential/Ashwani Kumar and Dr. K.C. Das. 21. Environmental changes in Guwahati and its impact on the water bodies/Prachuryya Kaushik, Anurag Hazarika and Dr. Dhwajendra Nath Das. Section 6: Changing Pattern of Land Use/Land Cover. 22. Land, land use and land-use change: a conceptual understanding and its inter-linkages/Sunil Kumar Singh and Amit Kumar. 23. Mapping and change detection of wastelands using remote sensing GIS techniques: a study of Jhansi District, Uttar Pradesh/Divya Kumari, Abhishek Kumar and Manisha Mishra. 24. Assessment of the impact of changing pattern of land use/land cover on the water bodies of Delhi/Seema Rani. 25. A geographical review of land use pattern in Mirzapur District /Sunil K. Singh, Saumya Mishra and Ambarish K. Rai. Section 7: Population and Deforestation. 26. Deforestation: a case study on Gujarat, India/Jinny Sharma and Poonam Sharma. 27. Spatio-Temporal analysis of forest covers in Konkan/Prakash Dongre. Section 8: State of Biodiversity. 28. Community composition of biodiversity and conservation research candidate: Scarab (Scarabaeidae: Coleoptera)/Nidhi Kakkar, Sanjeev K. Gupta and Paramjeet Kaur. 29. Diversity and conservation status of wetland birds in trans-Gangetic region of Haryana, India / Parmesh Kumar, Sanjeev K. Gupta and Deepak Rai. 30. Phenology morphometric and cytogenetic diversity of aphodius in Kurukshetra, Haryana India (Scarabaeidae)/Paramjeet Kaur and Nidhi Kakkar. 31. Avifaunal.…