Essays about: "over population in india"

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  1. 16. To care about the environment : Technologies of government in forest conservation - Khasi Hills, India

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Erik Andervad; [2014]
    Keywords : political ecology; environmental subjectivities; governmentality; forest conservation; community management; REDD ; India;

    Abstract : Involvement of communities in forest conservation and other forms of environmental governance isproliferating. Reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) is one mechanism,designed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by reversing deforestation trends in low-incomecountries. READ MORE

  2. 17. Dog bite incidence and associated risk factors : a cross-sectional study on school children in Tamil Nadu

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

    Author : Dinah Seligsohn; [2014]
    Keywords : dog bite; incidence; risk factors; Tamil Dadu;

    Abstract : Dog bites pose a threat to public health globally and can lead to infection, disfigurement, incapacity, post-traumatic stress syndrome and even death. In geographical areas where rabies is endemic, bites from infected dogs account for over 90% of the human rabies cases. READ MORE

  3. 18. Between Continuity and Change: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development’s Program of Action

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Khelia Mbisamakoro; [2014]
    Keywords : discourse; population control; malthusian discourse; family planning; CDA; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The history of the population control movement is one replete with controversies and where narratives about coercive population control policies and programs abound. Questionable practices such as the wide sterilization campaigns as took place in India during its state of emergency period in the 1970s or the use of contraceptives in the developing world already banned from Western markets contributed in casting a shadow over the population control movement for years. READ MORE

  4. 19. The Ganges drainage basin: Hydrological transitions due to anthropogenic water use.

    University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

    Author : Tushar Agarwal; [2014]
    Keywords : Irrigation; Precipitation; Evapotranspiration;

    Abstract : Hydrological changes in catchments world over have affected regional climate and pose serious challenge to future water resource management. The Ganges drainage basin (GDB) is one such region which has undergone rapid transformation in land and water use, more specifically in the latter half of 20th century. READ MORE

  5. 20. Rain, Income Shocks and Voter Turnout: Evidence from India

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Rickard Lunnerdal; [2014]
    Keywords : voter turnout; income shocks; rainfall; India; political economy;

    Abstract : Exogenous rainfall variation is exploited to capture arguably causal effects of income shocks on voter turnout in Indian state assembly elections over the period 1959-1990. Using rainfall to measure income variation is motivated by rain-fed agriculture being the main income source for a majority of the rural Indian population. READ MORE