In The Lagoons Of The Gangetic Delta

Author : Gautam Kumar Bera
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788183243438
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Lagoons of the Gangetic Delta written by Gautam Kumar Bera and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India; contributed articles.

Author : Aditya Ghosh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319638920
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India written by Aditya Ghosh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 concept of ‘everyday disasters’ is proposed – supported by data and photographic evidence – that contests institutional disaster definition. Then it uncovers how the geopolitics of ecological governance and its hegemonic discourse dominate local policies, which in turn fail to address local socio-ecological concerns, adaptation needs and development aspirations. Absence of local vocabularies, cognitive values and socio-cultural contexts along with spatially constricted, exclusionary, top-down techno-science approaches further escalate knowledge-action gaps. Deconstruction of multiscalar conflicts between the global rhetoric and transformative postcolonial geographies offers an ethical, Southern perspective of sustainability.

Author : Eric Wolanski
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128140046
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coasts and Estuaries written by Eric Wolanski and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coasts and Estuaries: The Future provides valuable information on how we can protect and maintain natural ecological structures while also allowing estuaries to deliver services that produce societal goods and benefits. These issues are addressed through chapters detailing case studies from estuaries and coastal waters worldwide, presenting a full range of natural variability and human pressures. Following this, a series of chapters written by scientific leaders worldwide synthesizes the problems and offers solutions for specific issues graded within the framework of the socio-economic-environmental mosaic. These include fisheries, climate change, coastal megacities, evolving human-nature interactions, remediation measures, and integrated coastal management. The problems faced by half of the world living near coasts are truly a worldwide challenge as well as an opportunity for scientists to study commonalities and differences and provide solutions. This book is centered around the proposed DAPSI(W)R(M) framework, where drivers of basic human needs requires activities that each produce pressures. The pressures are mechanisms of state change on the natural system and Impacts on societal welfare (including well-being). These problems then require responses, which are the solutions relating to governance, socio-economic and cultural measures (Scharin et al 2016). Covers estuaries and coastal seas worldwide, integrating their commonality, differences and solutions for sustainability Includes global case studies from leading worldwide contributors, with accompanying boxes highlighting a synopsis about a particular estuary and coastal sea, making all information easy to find Presents full color images to aid the reader in a better understanding of details of each case study Provides a multi-disciplinary approach, linking biology, physics, climate and social sciences

Author : Ananda Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000760936
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frederick Eden Pargiter written by Ananda Bhattacharyya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sundarban stretches from the brackish waters of the broad Hooghly on the west, to the fresh waters of the still broader Meghna to the east; the turbid waters of the Bay of Bengal on its southern limits, to the zamindari or pargana lands on its northern extremity and includes in its southern fringes the dense natural mangrove forests, it is famous for. The revenue history of Sundarbans is linked up with its riverine and coastal networks to its strategic location at the head of the Bay of Bengal which made it a natural protective barrier for the densely populated city of Calcutta. The massive transformation combined with the changed physical structure of Sundarban influenced society and economy on the one hand and invited settlers to establish their control in that region on the other. The text of Pargiter focuses on the revenue history of a larger part of Sundarbans, viz., Jessore, Khulna, Bakarganj and some parts of 24-Parganas since the inception of the colonial rule in Bengal. It has also been shown how the colonial administrators took various types of measures for collecting revenue by the way of land reclamation. The introductory note by the editor analyses the revenue settlement policies which had been implemented on different occasions to ensure the revenue maximization policies of the British Raj on the one hand and to establish an human settlement in the deltaic region on the other. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Author : F.L. Chiocci
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 1862396868
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Shelves of the World written by F.L. Chiocci and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's continental shelves are the sites of vast resources of food, energy and minerals, the exploitation of which is continuously increasing. Fluctuating global sea levels throughout the Quaternary period produced multiple transgressive and regressive cycles that profoundly affected and shaped these shelves. The complex interactions among climate, sea level, tectonics, oceanography and sediment input have formed distinctive sediment packages on each shelf and provide a guide to the interpretation of older shelf sequences throughout the geological record. This Memoir compiles studies on 23 selected shelves from all the continents, focusing on their evolution and examining the patterns of sedimentation during the past approximately 125 000 years. In addition to providing basic background information for each area, the chapters consider specific aspects of continental shelf research, from seismic stratigraphy to geomorphology, from palaeoceanography to palaeo sea-level reconstruction and from palaeontology to geochemistry.

Author : Arthur Erskine Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Snails written by Arthur Erskine Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Indian Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Indian Museum written by Indian Museum and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Schwartz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402038801
Total Pages : 1243 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Coastal Science written by M. Schwartz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-08 with total page 1243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Encyclopedia of Coastal Science stands as the latest authoritative source in the field of coastal studies, making it the standard reference work for specialists and the interested lay person. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach. This Encyclopedia features contributions by 245 well-known international specialists in their respective fields and is abundantly illustrated with line-drawings and photographs. Not only does this volume offer an extensive number of entries, it also includes various appendices, an illustrated glossary of coastal morphology and extensive bibliographic listings.

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian & World Geography (General Studies Volume-2) written by YCT Expert Team and published by YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES. This book was released on with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022-23 All IAS/PCS General Studies Volume-2 Indian & World Geography Chapter-wise Solved Papers

Author : Sriyanie Miththapala
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 9550205215
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lagoons and estuaries written by Sriyanie Miththapala and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal lagoons and estuaries, lying at the boundary between ocean and land, house a unique mosaic of habitats, giving rise to high species diversity and the creation of ecotones. They are also ecologically and economically important ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Yet, these coastal ecosystems are facing a gamut of human-induced threats. This booklet is the fourth in the Coastal Ecosystems Series, published in an attempt to address the lack of information available to the general public regarding the threats to coastal ecosystems.