RESOURCES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Baleshwar Thakur

Growing population in India has increased the pressure on natural resources. The complex and dynamic links between natural resources and regional development have long been recognized. Chapters in this book centre around the challenges emerging out of the resource use and regional development of the country.
This book, a felicitation volume in honour of Professor Baleshwar Thakur, comprises of two sections – regional resources and regional development – both revealing the interest of Professor Thakur.
Section one covers topics like resource regions, resources use, globalization and land use changes, water crisis, irrigation expansion and demand, floods forecasting and management, water quality and hydropower development. Section two features topics like inter-state disparities, indicators of development, sex ratio imbalances, borrowing trend economy and its impact, transportation and agricultural development, road transport regions, geosheelitics, climate change impact and mitigation etc. Both sections are interrelated as the various resources provide base to the development of a region. The book is interdisciplinary in its nature and ideal for the students of geography, resource management, regional planning and development.

Contents
1 Identification and Delimitation of Natural Resource Regions in Chotanagpur / Rameshwar Thakur
2 Resource Use and Agricultural Structure in Medieval India / Mohammad Dilshad
3 Mechanism of Land Transfer in Bihar / Rajeev Ranjan Kumar Sinha
4 Globalization, Land Use Changes and Marginality of Livelihood in Western Himalayas / B.W. Pandey and Abhay Shankar Prasad
5 Water Crisis in India / Surendra Singh Chawla
6 Water Use and Its Management in Damodar River Basin / Rameshwar Thakur
7 Irrigation Expansion and Water Resources Development in Haryana / Inder Jeet
8 Irrigation Water Demand for the Hindon Basin / Preeti Sachar
9 The Enigma of Flood and Flood Forecasting Techniques / Shweta Rani
10 Sustainable Management of Floods in North Bihar / Sneh Gangwar
11 Problems and Prospects of Interlinking of Rivers in Bihar / D.P. Singh and R.B. Thakur
12 Water Quality and Water-Borne Diseases in Kanpur City / Kanchan Gupta
13 Impacts of Hydropower Development on Rural Livelihood Sustainability in Sikkim Himalayas / Aakash Upadhyay
14 Globalizing India and Inter-State Disparities / Guljit K. Arora
15 Indicatorsmithy for Measuring Development / Rajesh Kumar Abhay
16 Sex Ratio Imbalances in India / Monica Ahlawat
17 Borrowing Trend Economy and its Impact on Education in Isolated Rural Area / Om Jee Ranjan and Anjan Sen
18 Exclusion of the Scheduled Caste Population in Professional Occupations in Uttar Pradesh / Vinod Kumar and Ajit Kumar
19 Growth, Morphology, Society Problems and Management of the Chandannagar City, West Bengal / Mitrajit Chatterjee and Nageshwar Prasad
20 Urban Household Perception of Climate Change and Mitigation Preferences in Dehradun City, Uttarakhand / Swati Thakur
21 Delhi’s Master Plan for 2021 / Priyanka Puri
22 Road Transport and Agricultural Development in Himachal Pradesh / Manjit Singh
23 Delimiting Road Transport Regions and Its Impact on Regional Development of Gaya District / Krishna Kumar and Anjan Sen
24 Geosheelitics / Sudeepta Adhikari
25 Impact of Climate Change on South Asian Forests / Swarnima Singh
26 Vulnerability in Mountain Systems to Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards / Krishnanand
27 Rehabilitation Efficacy of Kutch (Bhuj) Earthquake / Barun Kumar