This book focuses on vulnerability issues associated with urban development over Dehradun paleo-alluvial fan. The city of Dehradun occupies the central part of the elongated piggy back syncline Doon Valley and sits on loose unconsolidated coarse clastic Doon gravels derived from the Lesser Himalayas being deposited by Bindal and Rispana river systems during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene age. Rapid and unmatched conversion of land into continuously built up area over the tectonically active, geomorphologically sensitive, structurally feeble, and hydrologically incapable area has grossly...

The coastal zones are exposed to variety of hazards due to interactions between marine, terrestrial and atmospheric systems with respect to hazardous processes and complexities of coastal areas in terms of geological, geomorphological, hydrological, ecological, economical and sociological aspects in responding to those processes. The human occupancies of geomorphologically hazard prone lands of the coastal belt are not avoided at present in and around the Bay of Bengal shores due to increasing population pressure and available economic options in the sea and adjacent lands. The dramatic...

Presently maritime ecosystem has been arched into a ground of contradiction by the various consumers, developers, concern groups, local development authorities and environmentalists. The low land and deltaic coast is almost covered by the different types of coastal floral and faunal species which structurally multifaceted, environmentally delicate to phenomenal hazards and culturally noteworthy so far as the development and spreading out of human habitation is alarmed. Coastal biological processes endow an outline from which to simplify athwart space and time scales. The book commences these...

The low lying and estuarine coastal tract are structurally complicated, geomorphologically diverse, environmentally fragile, physically vulnerable to phenomenal hazards and culturally noteworthy so far as the development and spreading out of human habitation is rapidly going on in the coastal zone. Coastal issues and there management is now a burning question in human civilization with a region having vulnerable situation in the form of low lying unconsolidated substrate of deltaic coast together with the frequent presents of coastal hazards like tropical cyclone. The present book provides an...

In recent years spatial variability in educational attainment has threatened the sustainability of primary education system of India. Methodology currently available to assess the state level inequality in educational development of a nation, particularly in case of primary education, is still inefficient to help policy making process. Towards this end, the present book pays attention to the assessment of spatial structure of development in primary education across 35 Indian states and Union Territories (UTs). The study considers state wise values for each of the four components of a...