Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development: Volume 1: Regional Resources (Hardcover, 2015)

Section I : Introduction: Regional Natural Resources.- Introduction .- Baleshwar Thakur - Professional Career and Contributions.- Section II: Methodology .- Spectral Unmixing with Estimated Adaptive Endmember Index using Extended Support Vector Machine.- Natural Resource Management- Why Micro Matters? Experience from Kerala.- Section III : Global Perspective.- Natural Resource based Livelihoods in the context of climate change: Examining the Stance of Decision-makers in India.- Innovations and Challenges Related to Resource and Environmental Management.- Section IV: Economic Perspectives .- Inherited Land: The Evolution of Land Markets and Rights Before Independence.- The Geographic Distribution of Land Trusts activities in the United States: An Analysis Based on 2005 National Land Trust Census Report Data.- Poverty Reduction and Social Development: Experiences from Bangladesh.- Mineral Resource Potential and Prospects in Chotanagpur Region.- Section V: Ecological Perspective .- Land, Life and Environmental Change in the Himalaya.- Adaptive Management of India's Wildlife Sanctuaries.- Nutrition and Nutritional Deficiency Diseases in Sonbhadra District.- Section VI: Water Management .- Measurement of Water Scarcity.- Nonlinear Groundwater and Agricultural Land Use Change in Rajasthan, India.- Political Ecology of Groundwater Depletion in North -Western India.- Assessment of Human Vulnerability and Risk of Flood Hazards in Orissa, India.- Irrigation Water Demand for the Hindon Basin.- Section VII: Energy and Forest Resources .- Non-conventional Energy Resources in India. Joint Forest Management in India.- Community Forestry and Management of Forest Resources in Bhutan.- Section VIII: Land Cover and Rural Planning .- Land Cover Pattern and Road Types in Lop Buri Province, Thailand, 1989-2006.-Assessment of Capacities of TAOs and CBOs for Local Development in Thailand.- Nature of Land Use and Agricultural Change in Peripheral Regions: A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh, India.