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Indian Geography in the 21st Century
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Indian Geography in the 21st Century

The Young Geographers Agenda
Edited By: Ravi S. Singh

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Authored by young geographers, this book presents an action agenda for the future of geography in India. Exploring topics from education to physical and human geography, it provides a look into the future for professional geographers, researchers, and students.

This book, primarily a collection of statements on action agenda to be pursued in geography in India, consists of nineteen chapters exclusively authored by the…
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This book, primarily a collection of statements on action agenda to be pursued in geography in India, consists of nineteen chapters exclusively authored by the young geographers. It is organised into five parts: Part I provides “The Contextual Orientation”, Part II contemplates on “Reshaping Geography Education”, Part III explores “Resurrecting Physical Geography”, Part IV looks at “Retrieving Human Geography”, and Part V: “The Summum Bonum” attempts to garland the emerging thoughts. The book seeks to provide a peep into the future Indian Geography and serve professional geographers, researchers, teachers and students alike.

DR. RAVI S. SINGH, Associate Professor in Geography at Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India), has made over fifty academic contributions to reputed international and national journals and research series. His recent publications are Paths of Development in Arunachal Pradesh (2005), Indian Geography: Perspectives, Concerns and Issues (ed. 2009), Indian Geography in the 21st Century: The Young Geographers’ Agenda (ed. 2009) and Environment-Development Interface (ed. 2010). His fields of interest are Geographical Thought, Social and Cultural Geography, and Development Geography.

Sarfaraz Alam, Taruna Bansal, Aparajita Chattopadhyay, Bikramaditya Kumar Choudhary, Sudip Dey, Sohel Firdos, Narayan Chandra Jana, Vijaya P. Khairkar, A. P. Mishra, Archana K. Roy, P.K. Ryngnga, Lakshminarayan Satpati, Prabhat Shit, Arun K. Singh, Yemuna Sunny

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  • ISBN: 1-4438-1365-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-1365-5
  • Date of Publication: 2009-10-21

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  • ISBN: 1-4438-1625-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-1625-0
  • Date of Publication: 2009-10-21
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