About the Book

Population cannot exist without environment in which people live, and utilize the fruits of development. Recent developments across the world, such as increasing stress on rapid industrialization, globalization of market economy and over-exploitation of resources, expose populations to environmental degradation, hazardous materials and situations, disasters, conflicts, and migrations. All these necessitate an integrated study of population, environment and development, to which this volume makes its contribution. The present book Geography of Population is divided into four sections. Section One is devoted to environmental perception, problems and policies in the socio-economic context. Section Two deals with population issues relating to population pressure, fertility, poverty and resources. Section Three analyzes the present and emerging characteristics and problems of rural and urban development, and migration. And, Section Four discusses the impacts of development and disasters, and looks into the issues and strategies for mitigation of losses and welfare of people. This volume is an extremely useful addition to the literature on demographic studies, and can be used both as a textbook and a reference volume.

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Contents

Section One: Environmental Perception, Problems and Policies

1. Frontiers in Environment: Reappraisal of Environmental Problems and Policies

2. Environmental Problems of Varanasi: A Perception Survey

3. Flood-Hazard in Lower Ghaghara Plain: A Study of Perception and Impact on Socio-Economic Development  / Co-author: R.P. Yadava

4. Quality of Human Environment: A Case Study of Kanpur City  /  Co-author: V.K. Kumra

Section Two: Population Characteristics and Problems

5. Population Pressure in the Himachal Himalaya: Characteristics and Problems

6. Some Aspects of Fertility in India

7. Population, Environment, Development and Poverty in Himachal Pradesh

8. Resources, Population and the Indian People

Section Three: Problems of Urban and Rural Development and Migration

9. Sustainability of Metropolitan Centres in Third World Countries

10. Scientific Study and control of Ecological Deterioration in Urban Ecosystem: A Case Study of Kanpur City  / Co-author: V.K. Kumra

11. Environment and Rural Development

12. Energy Resources and Technology Transfer in the Management of Rural Environment  /  Co-author: R.B. Singh

13. Migration and Urbanization in India and Relevance of Regional Development Programmes

14. Spatial Disorganization and Internal Migration in India: Some Strategies for Restructuring the Space Economy and Development  /  Co-author: Shekhar Mukherji

Section Four: Population, Impacts of Development and Disasters: Issues and Strategies

15. Impact of Tourism in the Himalayan Region

16. Forests in India and the Impact of Economic Development

17. Forests and Ecology in the Himalaya

18. Flood-induced Population Migration in India: A Case Study of Ghaghara Zone  /  Co-author: R.P. Yadava

19. The Bhopal Disaster  /  Co-author: Prithvish Nag

20. Population, Disasters and Disaster-Reduction Strategies

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About the Author / Editor

S.L. Kayastha, an eminent geographer with wide national and international recognition, served as Professor and Head, Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He held numerous academic as well as visiting appointments in India and abroad and was actively associated with the IGU Commission on Population Geography and Environmental Problems. He has published extensively in the areas of population, environment and development, and natural disaster management.

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