Contemporary Environmental Problems in Nepal Geographic Perspectives /

This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked country’s representativeness in the wider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable. In large part, this is because of its extremes of physiographical structure- plains, hill ranges, mountainous...

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Main Authors: Bhattarai, Keshav. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Conway, Dennis. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50168-6
Table of Contents:
  • From the Contents: Geographic Settings
  • Spatial Locations of Nepal (Geopolitics)
  • Culture, Religion, and Natural Resources
  • Population Growth, Migration and Residential Mobility (Literature review and field verifications)
  • Demographic Theory and Population Growth
  • Fertility, Mortality, and Demographic Transition
  • Human-environment relationships
  • General Theory of Development and Migration
  • Political Ecology of Land Encroachment
  • Concepts and Determinants of Migration.