Indian Geography in the 21st Century: The Young Geographers Agenda

Product Description This book, primarily a collection of statements on action agenda to be pursued in geography in India, consists of nineteen chapters exclusively authored by the young geographers. It is organised into five parts: Part I provides 'The Contextual Orientation', Part II contemplates on 'Reshaping Geography Education', Part III explores 'Resurrecting Physical Geography', Part IV looks at 'Retrieving Human Geography', and Part V: 'The Summum Bonum' attempts to garland the emerging thoughts. The book seeks to provide a peep into the future Indian Geography and serve professional geographers, researchers, teachers and students alike. About the Author DR. RAVI S. SINGH, Associate Professor in Geography at Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India), has made over fifty academic contributions to reputed international and national journals and research series. His recent publications are Paths of Development in Arunachal Pradesh (2005), Indian Geography: Perspectives, Concerns and Issues (ed. 2009), Indian Geography in the 21st Century: The Young Geographers' Agenda (ed. 2009) and Environment-Development Interface (ed. 2010). His fields of interest are Geographical Thought, Social and Cultural Geography, and Development Geography.