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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bhattarai, Keshav, Conway, Dennis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
Series:Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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