Natur

This book studies a historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian Studies, world history and environmental history.

This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on impacts of Covid-19 on the population of India. A novel contribution on the cultural factors in contemporary times of Covid-19, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Cultural Studies, Health and Society and South Asian Studies.

This book assembles leading scholars from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine to explore existing One Health approaches and to envision a mode of health that is both more-than-human and also more sensitive to, and explicit about, colonial and neocolonial legacies.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and cutting-edge assessment of community forestry.

Aslam and Gunaratna bring together a broad analysis of the responses of states in Asia to the threats presented by the Covid-19 pandemic in its early phase.

The book examines concurrent green initiatives and their spillover effects in environmental conservation and management to reveal their impact on conservation effectiveness, drawing on a range of international case studies.

This book explores the experiences of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast India across different areas of life and work.

The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nation Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.

This book identifies crucial supply-side nodes of power and influence where feasible and relatively straight-forward 'functional' reforms - strategy, structure, selection, training - would make genuinely developmental results for recipients more likely and enhance donor interests at the same time.

This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice.

This book presents a broad overview of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in India and its neighboring countries. It studies responses to COVID-19 infections across South Asia, the variegated impact of the pandemic on its societies, communities and economies, and emerging challenges which require an interdisciplinary understanding.

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting magical and shamanic phenomena associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. It will be of interest to South Asian religions, Tantric traditions, and Asian and global folk religion, shamanism, and magic.

Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts explores the movement of individuals and peoples and the circulation of material objects and books and texts.

Volume 1: Theories, Methods, and Ideas explores the mobility of ideas through time and space and how interdisciplinary theories and methodological approaches used in mobilities studies can be profitably utilised within the humanities and social sciences.

This book reviews a wide-range of genetically modified (GM) crops, to understand how they are produced, the impacts on the agricultural industry, and the potential for improving food security.

This book brings the Tagore's unique music - Rabindrasangit - to a global audience, with a lucid introduction by Ananda Lal as well as selected songs in international transcription and English translation.

The book provides detailed noise-controlling strategies for devices generating excessive noise. The main three categories are passive, semi-active and active, and are applicable to a wide range of devices, with applications including vehicle or aircraft cabins.

This book examines contemporary issues & debates of terrorism in Bangladesh, their narratives and counternarratives, ideologues, women & youth, media representation, counterterrorism laws & challenges. It will appeal to academics & international policymakers on violence & extremism in South Asia.

This book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province, increases conflict severity.

This volume focuses on 'fittingness' as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics.

Urban planning as a discipline is deeply integral to implementing a low-carbon future. This book fosters an understanding for the rules-in-use that govern urban planning and influence the ability to implement low-carbon development patterns.

This book critically examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated digital innovation within higher education using case studies from Africa. Imagining a future for post-pandemic higher education, it analyses the challenges and opportunities of remote teaching and learning.

This timely, insightful and expert-led volume interprets the 2020 U.S. Presidential election from a geographical standpoint, with a focus on its spatial dimensions.

Bengalis have been great travellers for centuries and are famous for recreating their way of life wherever they go. This book critically analyses skilled Bengali migration within and beyond India and looks at landscapes created by the Bengali diaspora beyond the terrain of their homeland.

This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice. Scholars look at the present state of this relationship, asking how it has evolved and where it is likely to go in the future.