9788174877260 - Integrated Land and Water Management for Food Security von K. N. Singh; S. K. Singh; S. N. Singh (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xii + 188 Illus., Maps.

Contents Foreword Preface 1 Integrated Land and water management with particular emphasis on water management in IndiaSC Mukhopadhyay 2 Land useLand cover analysis using remote sensing and geographical information system GIS with special reference to an urban areaNutan Tyagi 3 GIS and water quality management A case study of eastern Uttar PradeshKN Singh Rajneesh Kumar and SN Singh 4 Urban encroachment in remganga riparian zone and its environmental effect on Moradabad citySatyendra Kumar 5 Current environmental issues planning and managementSadanand Gupta and Deep Narayan Pandey 6 Food security in IndiaSadanand Gupta and Kumar Veer Dhirendra 7 Noise pollution Sources Health effects and control techniquesAlok Kumar Srivastava and Sadanand Gupta 8 Regional development in India Paradigm and paradozesSadanand Gupta and Alok Kumar Srivastava and eight articles are in HindiThe present volume brings together sixteen research paper which were contributed to 17 IRED national seminar on Integrated land and water management for food security in India organized by Department of Geography Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grakhur University Gorakhpur on February 8-9-2009 The initiative taken by the editor of this volume for inviting papers form a group of geographers and researchers of other disciplines having interest on problem of land and water management as well as challenges of food security and to bring them together for discussions on this theme fills an important gap in the field of Indian studies on integrated land and water management In my survey of studies on land use and water management researches are in plenty but studies on integrated land and water management are rare It is noticeable that with growing problem of water resource there is challenge to planners and policy makers to introduce cropping pattern according to availability of water resource The present volume is a significant attempt to fulfill the present gap in geographical studiesWe hope that this volume will stimulate many geographers as well as young researchers to contribute studies on planning for integrated land and water management as well as food security which fill up adequately the serious gaps and difficiencies in the studies by agricultural scientists and Geographers 188 pp.