Resource Use, Development and Environment

About the Book :

This book seeks different issues of resource-use-development-environment interfaces together with their implications. It showcases fresh empirical studies conducted at different scales on the nature of environment and development relationship, dynamics of their interface and emerging issues confronting humanity, especially developing societies like India; and, highlights their findings. It is an endeavour towards widening the horizon of environmental understanding crucial for sustainable human existence and development. The readers will find most of the chapters comprehensive in scope and thought stimulating as well as informative.

About Author :

Ravi S. Singh (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP), India. Prof. Singh has several international as well as national academic publications in reputed journals and research series, many of them cross-disciplinary, to his credit. His major publications include Paths of Development in Arunachal Pradesh (2005, NBC), Indian Geography: Perspectives, Concerns and Issues (ed. 2009, Rawat Publications), Indian Geography in the 21st Century: The Young Geographers Agenda (ed. 2009, CSP), and Environmental Concerns: The Third World Perspectives (ed. 2014, YS Books International). Associated with several prestigious academic and scientific bodies, he is currently Vice-President: The Indian Society of Spatial Science (Presidency University, Kolkata) and Secretary: The Institute of Indian Geographers (Pune) besides being on the advisory board of many academic journals. The main areas of his academic interest are geographical thought, geography education, social and cultural geography, and development geography.