Overview
- Reviews the diversity of human habitational attributes including environment, economic dynamics and socio-cultural milieu in India
- Presents wide-ranging case studies in human geography from across India
- Provides fresh insights with rich essays based on sound empirical research
Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Environment, Resource Base and Livelihood
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Economic Development and Regional Disparities
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Socio-spatial Inequalities
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Keywords
- Land-knowledge Integration System
- Rural Human Habitats
- Urban Geo-Environmental Crisis
- Urbanisation in India
- Spatial Reorganization in India
- Socio-Economic Development
- Socio-Cultural Spaces
- Groundwater for Irrigation
- Gendered Resistance
- Tribal Habitats
- Forest Resources
- Urban Expansion
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mahabir S Jaglan is a Professor at Department of Geography, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (Haryana). He has been a faculty member in this university for last 28 years and has also served the institution in the capacity of Chairperson of the Department, Coordinator Corporate Resource Centre, Librarian, and Coordinator Distance Education PG Courses in Geography. Having obtained the degrees of MA Geography, MPhil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he also carried out postdoctoral research as a fellow of University Grants Commission at Centre for the Study of Regional development, JNU for two years before joining Kurukshetra University. His primary research interest is in the field of Agricultural and Environmental Geographies and has published over 50 research papers and chapters in international and national journals and books. He is also a co-author of Class XII textbook of National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi. He has presented over 80 research papers in national and international conferences in India and abroad. Currently he is working and guiding research on the themes of groundwater accessibility and markets, irrigation and agricultural development, horticultural development, agricultural marketing and organic farming. He has supervised 12 PhD theses and 28 MPhil dissertations.
Rajeshwari is currently Professor at Department of Geography, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana. She holds doctoral and MPhil degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before joining her current post, she also worked as Research Associate at CSRD, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, Junior Economist at National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi and at Higher Education Department, Government of Haryana. Her research interest is in the field of health, disease, nutrition, women violence,and gender issues.She has undertaken two projects on Epidemiology, Health and Nutrition Transition in Haryana. She has contributed several research papers in edited books and in reputed national and international journals, like, Economic and Political Weekly, Malaysian Journal of Tropical Geography, Population Geography, Transactions of Indian Institute of Geographers and Annals of National Association of Geographers, India. She has also presented over thirty research papers at national and international conferences, including IGU, Beijing, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and University of Manchester, UK. She has been the Chairperson of Department of Geography, Kurukshetra University. Recently she conducted a Department of Science and Technology, Government of India sponsored summer training program on Capacity Building in Geospatial Technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reflections on 21st Century Human Habitats in India
Book Subtitle: Felicitation Volume in Honour of Professor M. H. Qureshi
Editors: Mahabir S. Jaglan, Rajeshwari
Series Title: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3100-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3099-6Published: 01 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3102-3Published: 02 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3100-9Published: 31 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2198-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 392
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Cultural Economics, Urban Economics