There are many controversies regarding the process of land acquisition in the country specifically in the state of West Bengal. Based on the data collected by the author during 2011鈥 2012 on an ICSSR funded project the paper argues that the nature of problems regarding land acquisition is ...
West Bengal is another outlier, with a relatively high proportion of marginal farmers but a suicide rate only just above the mean. This anomaly might be explained by strength of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the state over the past 35 years and, in particular, their unrivalled ...
Although only about half of the total number of islands on this part of Sabah were involved, the selection included the entire geographical extent of islands off the west coast of Sabah (see Figure 1). The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and updated checklist of land snails...
Roy SK, Mondal C (2023) Impact of Rapid Urbanization and Changing Face of Wetland: A Case Study of Berhampore Municipality, Murshidabad, West Bengal (India). In Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability 23–59. https:...
In 1993, the government of West Bengal imposed restrictions on the drilling of low-duty tube wells in some districts through an executive order, though this step was not effective in controlling groundwater development, as evident from the Minor Irrigation Census of 2002, which showed a vast ...
Brown (2003), Amending the West Bengal Land Reforms Act: Benefiting the Poor and the Marginalized, RDI Reports on Foreign Aid and Develop- ment No. 118, May.Hansted. Tim. and Brown, Jennifer. (2003) `Attending the West Bengal land Reforms Act: Benefiting the poor and Marginalized', RDI...
890 Accesses Metrics details Abstract Urban development leads to frequent changes in land use, which leads to temporal and spatial variation of carbon emissions. In this study, land use change data, economic and social data, and energy consumption data of Nanchang City from 2000 to 2020 were ...
In the present study, the different terrain components and landscape units present in Garbeta-I Block of Paschim Medinipur District of West Bengal were examined and demarcated through analysis of topographical maps and information extraction from Digital Elevation Models (DEM) in a Geographic ...
1. Fig. 2 shows a glimpse of destruction as it pounded Odisha and West Bengal on the day of landfall on 3 May 2019. The cyclone was categorized as an extremely severe cyclone (Source: IMD). Detailed analysis of the atmospheric and meteorological parameters along the path of the cyclone ...
4036 Accesses 147 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Land tenure security is increasingly recognized as a foundational element for advancing global sustainable development agendas, but questions remain about how it affects human well-being and environmental outcomes. We identify 117 studies that aimed to ...