Overview
- Presents a state-of-the-art review of land degradation studies across the world
- Lucidly explains recent advances in techniques of measuring land degradation
- Features case studies on land degradation processes in semi-arid India
- Applies multi-disciplinary, multi-scale approaches to study causes and implications of land degradation
Part of the book series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research (AAHER)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Padmini Pani is an Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, where she works at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, at the School of Social Sciences.
She has a Master’s Degree in Geography and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Remote Sensing and GIS. Other specialities include Geomorphology, Land Degradation, River Systems, Climate Change, Mountain Ecosystems, Environment and Development. She was visiting fellow at Lancaster University, University of Southampton, and University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr Pani was a DAAD fellow at the Institute of Physical Geography of the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, where she worked on land degradation.
Dr. Padmini Pani has over a decade in teaching and research experience and published numerous articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land Degradation and Socio-Economic Development
Book Subtitle: A Field-based Perspective
Authors: Padmini Pani
Series Title: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42074-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42073-4Published: 20 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42076-5Published: 20 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42074-1Published: 19 May 2020
Series ISSN: 1879-7180
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7199
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 160
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geomorphology, Geology, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography