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Population,Economic Growth

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EditorsAmit KumarAmbarish Kumar RaiDr. V. K. Tripathi

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Dr. V. K

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Rapid population growth and continued unplanned economic development have caused severe environmental damage in across the world in general and the Asia-Pacific region, in particular. However, the recent experience is that the pace of environmental degradation is faster in developing countries than in developed countries. Many efforts have been made to reduce the pace of such undulated imbalance of environmental damages and to conserve our natural resources accordance to the new concept of sustainable development. To this end, the study seeks to assess the impact of population pressure on India's environment, with particular reference to the degradation of natural endowments like land and water resources and the resultant environmental pollution. This book has made an effort to highlight the role of governmental and non-governmental agencies to maintain the environmental health and enhance the potentiality of locally available natural resources, with people participation at micro and meso level. It also enlightened the population as "boon rather than a curse" for sustainable development. Overall, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to exploring the complex, continuous and eternal relationship between population, development and environment in the context of India. It also tried for drawing concepts and methods from several academic disciplines like geography, demography/population studies, urban studies, development studies, environment, economics, sociology, botany and social work. Thus this book will be useful for academicians, researchers, NGOs, policy makers, planners and all those who are concerned for the common people, the people who are concerned with population, development and environment.

Amit KumarHe is a young dynamic social scientist working in the field of Population Studies. He has Masters in Geography and Population Studies. He has published several papers in academically renounced International journals of Social Science, Geography and Public Health. He also has published a book on Population issues in an international publication house. He has also attended and invited in several national and International conferences, workshops and symposiums about the population issues. He has also visited Thailand and South Korea for attending the internationally most prestigious organizations like IUSSP (International Union for Scientific Study of Population) and APA (Asian Population Association) summit of Population Sciences as a member. He is also a lifetime active member of IASP (Indian Association for the Study of Population). He has an experience of working with the most impressive international organization 'Population Council'. He is well trained in handling the Statistical software for analysing the different issues of Population, Development and Environment.

Ambarish Kumar RaiHe is a young population researcher working in the field of contemporary issues of Population. He is working as a Project Officer in CNSM & CNSG project funded by UNICEF & Govt. of Maharashtra & Govt. of Gujarat. He has Master’s in Geography and MPS & M. Phil. in Population Studies. Recently he has published a paper in academically renowned International Journal of Social Science. He has published a book on issues of population and health with an international publisher. He has also attended and invited at several national conferences, workshops and symposiums about the population issues. He is the member of the most prestigious organization of population study IUSSP (International Union for Scientific Study of Population) and of IASP (Indian Association for the Study of Population). He has taken training sophisticatedly in handling the Statistical software for analysing the different issues of Population, Development and Environment.

Dr. Vinod Kumar TripathiDr. Vinod Kumar Tripathi is a Geographer, who is a faculty member at Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University as Associate Professor. He is specialized in urban development and Urban Planning, Settlement Geography as well as Population Geography. In his career, he has published several papers in a number of journals on the subject of Social Science and Geography. He is also an editorial member of reputed magazine. Dr. Tripathi is also a member of the National Association of Geographers India (NEGI), Institute of Indian Geographers (IIG), Association of Punjab Geographers (APG) and Association for Geographical Studies (AGS).

Population, Economic Growthand Environmental Pollution

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Population, Economic Growthand

Environmental Pollution

Editors

Amit Kumar

Ambarish Kumar Rai

Dr. V. K. Tripathi

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Preface

Rapid population growth and continued economic developmenthave caused serious environmental damage in the Asia Pacificregion. However, the recent experience is that the pace ofenvironmental degradation is faster in developing countries thanin developed countries. These countries have faced manychallenges in recent decades, including low levels of education,poor health standards, poverty, scarce housing, natural resourcedepletion, terrorism, and economic and political domination byother countries. To this end, the study seeks to assess the impactof population pressure on India’s environment, with particularreference to the degradation of natural endowments like land andwater resources and the resultant environmental pollution.

However, this volume is an outcome of intense academicdiscussion and debate held on the topic Population, economicgrowth and its inter-linkages to Environmental pollution issuesespecially in context of India and its sub continental realm. Thecontributors have made an effort to understand the differentgeographical phenomenon related to development and its linkagesto environmental pollution at micro level in form of case studieswidely across the India. These case studies will also be helpful tounderstand the same phenomenon in another regions but havingsimilar geographical setups. This volume contains fourteen papersdivided into six sections and that exploring the relationship amongthe three mentioned dimensions, i.e. population, economic growthand environmental pollution. First section presents a theoreticalframework and the basic understanding of population setting inIndia specific under ageing population, development andenvironment in Indian contexts; second section revolves roundPopulation Pressure and its impact of environmental changes;

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third section highlighted the pace of development and its impacttribes; fourth section is webbed a how to manage to natural disasterdue environment changes through disaster management; fifthsection explain about environmental pollution and its impact;sixth section especially focused on Role of Government andnongovernmental bodies in Environment and Development.

Overall, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach toexplore the complex, continuous and eternal relationship betweenpopulation, development and environment in the context of India,drawing concepts and methods from several academic disciplineslike geography, demography/population studies, urban studies,development studies, environment, economics, sociology, botanyand social work. Thus this book will be useful for academicians,researchers, NGOs, policy makers, planners and all those whoare concerned for the common people, the people who areconcerned with population, development and environment.

EDITORS

Contents

Preface iii

Contributors vii

Section I: Population Setting in India

1. A Study of Ageing and Disability in Uttar Pradesh: 3A District Level Analysis

Bal Govind Chauhan, Ambarish Kumar Rai & Amit Kumar

2. Aged Persons in Rural India: A Comparative 27Analysis of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

Dr. R. Hariharan

3. Literacy Pattern in the Himalayan Population: 38Based on Census 2011

Dr. B. R. Pant

Section II: Development and Environmental Change

4. An Appraisal on Population Pressure and Status 68of Social Vulnerability in Indian Sundarbans – ACase Study in the Coastal Block of NamkhanaDr. Rajashree Dasgupta & Dr. Arindam Dasgupta

5. Deriving Cropping Pattern Using Geo-Spatial 90Applications: A Micro-level Study in BaragaonBlock, Varanasi DistrictJitendra Kumar Jaiswal and Narender Verma& Ambarish Kumar Rai

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Section III: Development and Tribal Community

6. Migration of Tribes, Causes and Consequences, with 103Special Reference of Maharashtra’s Tribes

Gawari Ajay Ashok

7. Social Geographical Study of Endangered 133Primitive Tribes of the Andaman & NicobarIslands & Their Development

Dr. S.C. Chaturvedi

Section IV: Environmental Change and DisasterManagement

8. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into 146Urban Sector Physical Development ProjectsSampurnananda Mahapatra

9. Socio-economic dimension of Disaster Management 155in India

Kanwar Bhan

Section V: Environmental Pollution

10. Noise: A Pollutant With Adverse Psychosocial Impact 169Dr. Prarthna Swani

11. Assessment of Water Quality and Purification in 181Jaipur City

Karishma Sood & Dr. Usha Jain

Section VI: Role of Government in Environment andDevelopment

12. Role of Government and Non-Government 197Organization in Development of Populationand Environmental Related Issue

Manjeet Singh

13. Development of Rural women through Panchayati 208Raj Institution: A Case Study among the IdentifiedSocial Groups

Dr Dipalee Neog

14. Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in India: Issue of 223Balanced Regional Development in India

Joginder Singh and Deepak

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Contributors

Ambarish Kumar Rai (Project Officer) International Institute forPopulation Sciences, Mumbai, Maharshtra

Amit Kumar (Senior Research Fellow), International Institute forPopulation Sciences, Mumbai, Maharshtra

Bal Govind Chauhan (Doctoral Fellow), International Institutefor Population Sciences, Mumbai, Maharshtra

Deepak (Research Scholar), Department of Geography, M.D.University, Rohtak, Haryana

Dr. Arindam Dasgupta (Assistant Professor) Post GraduateDepartment of Geography, Chandernagore College,Chandernagore, Hooghly, West Bengal

Dr. B. R. Pant (Associate Professor & Head), Department ofGeography, M. B. Govt. P. G. College, Haldwani, Nainital,Uttarakhand

Dr. Dipalee Neog, (Sr. Assistant Professor), Department ofGeography, Arya Vidyapeeth College, A.K.Azad Road,Guwahati, Assam

Dr. Narender Verma (Assistant Professor) Department ofGeography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UttarPradesh

Dr. Prarthna Swani (Associate Professor) Department ofPsychology, S.R. Government College for Women, Amritsar,Punjab

Dr. R. Hariharan (Assistant Professor) Economics Centre for RuralDevelopment, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, TamilNadu

Dr. Rajashree Dasgupta (Assistant Professor) Post GraduateDepartment of Geography, Krishnagar Govt. College,Krishnagar, Nadia, West Bengal

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Dr. S.C. Chaturvedi (Associate Professor) P.G. Department ofGeography, Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkeeya Mahavidyalaya(Govt. College), Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Dr. Usha Jain, (Associate Professor) Department Of Geography,University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Gawari Ajay Ashok (Assistant Professor), Department ofGeography, Birla College of Arts, Science & Commerce, BirlaCollege Road, Kalyan (W), Thane, Maharashtra

Jitendra Kumar Jaiswal (Research Scholar) Department ofGeography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UttarPradesh

Joginder Singh (Research Scholar), Department of Geography,M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana

Kanwar Bhan (Assistant Professor) Department of Geography,Pt. C.l.S. P.G. Govt. College, Karnal, Haryana

Karishma Sood, (Research Scholar), Department Of Geography,University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Manjeet Singh, (Assistant Professor), Department of Geography,Govt. College Sri Muktsar Sahib, Punjab University,Chandigarh, Punjab

Sampurnananda Mahapatra (M. Planning) School of Planning& Architecture, Delhi

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