Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Environmental Problems in Nepal
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This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked country’s representativeness in the wider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable. In large part, this is because of its extremes of physiographical...

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Parution : 2020-11-23
Collection : Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Anthropogenic Tropical Forests
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The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natural scientists and social scientists, the key focus is the process of commodification of nature that has turned the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-11-06
Collection : Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Irrigation Water Management for Agricultural Development in Uttar Pradesh, India
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This book focuses on irrigation sources together with water management for agricultural development in Uttar Pradesh state of India. Being the most populous state of the country, it bears a burden of feeding about 199 million people of which major section relies on...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-01-07
Collection : Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India
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This multidisciplinary work analyses challenges to sustainable development amidst rapidly changing climate in the world’s largest delta – the Sundarbans. Empirical evidence unpacks grounded vulnerabilities and reveals their temporal socio-economic impacts. A novel...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-12-01
Collection : Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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Télécharger le livre :  The Himalayan Border Region
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Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe of India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is located in the...

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Parution : 2016-04-18
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Télécharger le livre :  North-East India: Land, People and Economy
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North-East India, comprising the seven contiguous states around Assam, the principal state of the region, is a relatively unknown, yet very fascinating region. The forest clad peripheral mountains, home to indigenous peoples like the Nagas, Mizos and the Khasis, the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya
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The Karakoram contains the greatest concentration of glaciers and most of the largest ice masses outside high latitudes. They comprise major stores and sources of fresh water in an otherwise extreme, continental, dry region. As many as 200 million people living...

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Parution : 2013-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Water Civilization
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Water Civilization: From Yangtze to Khmer Civilizations comprises three major topics: 1) Discovery of the origin of rice agriculture and the Yangtze River civilization in southern China was mainly based on investigation of the Chengtoushan archaeological site, the...

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Parution : 2012-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Pastoral practices in High Asia
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In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development.In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous phenomena...

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Parution : 2012-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests
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This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia. Each chapter covers a major topic in the evolutionary biology of tropical rain forest trees...

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Parution : 2011-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lower Damodar River, India
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Interweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the Damodar’s lower reaches. While the Damodar River isn’t an exceptional...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-03-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Malaria in South Asia
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Malaria is one of the most widespread and devastating infectious diseases in the world. More than half the world population residing in over 100 countries is at risk of infection from this vector-borne disease. An estimated 250–500 million mal- ial cases occur each...

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Parution : 2009-12-04
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