River Control in India

Ravi Baghel

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• Large river systems throughout the planet have been dramatically transformed due to river control projects such as large dams and embankments. Unlike ... Lees meer

Mapping Transition in the Pamirs

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• By emphasizing on the Pamir region a comprehensive overviewof path-dependent and recent developments in a remote mountain region isprovided in this bo... Lees meer

Mutual Sustainability of Tubewell Farming and Aquifers

Ahmad Saeed Khattak

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This book develops and presents a conceptual model for sustainable-groundwater irrigated agriculture. The model is based on the general principles of ... Lees meer

Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya

Judith Müller

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there. In recent ... Lees meer

Environmental Change and Development in Ladakh, Indian Trans-Himalaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• The Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh has witnessed important changes linked to its geo-strategic importance, the rapid development of means of communi... Lees meer

Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya

Judith Müller

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there. In recent ... Lees meer

Learning 'From' and 'With' the Locals

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This book aims to capture the fading traditional knowledge systems of local and indigenous communities in the Himalayas. As many of these practices ar... Lees meer

Climate, Land-Use Change and Hydrology of the Beas River Basin, Western Himalayas

Seema Rani

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• There is a need of strengthening the global and local response to cope with the threat of climate change and adverse effects of rising anthropogenic a... Lees meer

Creative Industry Districts

Jinliao He

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as th... Lees meer

Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure

Helin Liu, Qian Wang, Elisabete A Silva

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a gr... Lees meer

Human Interference on River Health

Shreya Bandyopadhyay, Sunil Kumar De

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This book examines in detail the health of India's Haora River, which is of vital importance as the lifeline of Agartala, the Capital City of Tripura.... Lees meer

Livelihood Pathways of Indigenous People in Vietnam's Central Highlands

Huỳnh Anh Chi Thái

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This study focuses on impacts of the environmental and socio-economic transformation on the indigenous people's livelihoods in Vietnam's Central Highl... Lees meer

Assessing the Social Impact of Development Projects

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This book shows how social impact assessment (SIA), which emerged barely five decades ago, as a way to anticipate and manage potentially negative soci... Lees meer

Anthropogenic Tropical Forests

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natu... Lees meer

Contesting Conservation

Saloni Gupta

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• The first academic work on the banning of shahtoosh wool trade in Kashmir, and first systematic account of joint forest management in the Jammu and Ka... Lees meer

Land Degradation and Socio-Economic Development

Padmini Pani

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• Presents a state-of-the-art review of land degradation studies across the world Lucidly explains recent advances in techniques of measuring land degra... Lees meer

Mutual Sustainability of Tubewell Farming and Aquifers

Ahmad Saeed Khattak

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This book develops and presents a conceptual model for sustainable-groundwater irrigated agriculture. The model is based on the general principles of ... Lees meer

Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This volume uses an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to assess various issues resulting from human-environment interactions in relation to su... Lees meer

Mapping Transition in the Pamirs

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• By emphasizing on the Pamir region a comprehensive overviewof path-dependent and recent developments in a remote mountain region isprovided in this bo... Lees meer

The Himalayan Border Region

Christoph Bergmann

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders ... Lees meer

Irrigation Water Management for Agricultural Development in Uttar Pradesh, India

Suman Lata

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• Provides a comparative picture of irrigation and agricultural development in different districts of Uttar Pradesh Provides detailed information along ... Lees meer

Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• This volume uses an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to assess various issues resulting from human-environment interactions in relation to su... Lees meer

Contesting Conservation

Saloni Gupta

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• The first academic work on the banning of shahtoosh wool trade in Kashmir, and first systematic account of joint forest management in the Jammu and Ka... Lees meer

Land Degradation and Socio-Economic Development

Padmini Pani

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
• Presents a state-of-the-art review of land degradation studies across the world Lucidly explains recent advances in techniques of measuring land degra... Lees meer