A review of recent urban geographic studies in India
India ; Research ; Urban geography ; Urban planning ; Urbanization
The paper reviews the changing nature of the growing specialized trends of urban geography in India since independence, with a particular emphasis to the 1980s and early 1990. Urban geography has emerged as a major academic sub-field in India
Eucalyptus ; Forest ; India ; Reforestation ; Tamil Nadu ; Tree
Although eucalyptus in India is ecologically maladapted, the A. seeks to understand this species at an emotional level by observing them at Kodaikanal in South India. - (DWG)
Agricultural production ; Data ; Famine;Starvation ; Food ; Food consumption ; Food resources ; India ; Malnutrition ; Poverty ; Regional disparities
Using average nutritive values of food actually consumed by individuals, the paper identifies regional concentration of hunger (food poverty) and its changes over time (1973-83) in rural India. There is a heavy concentration of hunger in the coastal
Various tectonic disturbances from the Cretaceous to the present day have modified the geomorphic features of western India. Compression and extensional stresses generated by the northerly moving Indian plate, and its collision with the Eurasian
Neotectonic influences on morphological variations along the coastline of Kachchh, India
Arid area ; Coastal environment ; India ; Neotectonics ; Remote sensing ; Sea level ; Shoreline
The coastline of Kachchh in the arid, westernmost part of India can be broadly divided into five major segments. These are, from west to east, the deltaic coast, the irregular drowned prograded coast, the spits and cuspate foreland complex
Developing countries ; Economic development ; India ; Infrastructure ; International tourism ; Regional development ; Tourism ; Tourist facilities ; Transport
Alluvial cone ; Deforestation ; Fault ; Himalaya ; India ; Land use ; Mass movement ; Quaternary ; Slope ; Soil erosion ; Tectonics ; Vertical movement