Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development : Volume 1: Regional Resources - Dutt, Ashok K.; Noble, Allen G.; Costa, Frank J.; Thakur, Sudhir K.; Thakur, Rajiv; Sharma, Hari S.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
Section I:  Introduction: Regional Natural Resources -- Introduction -- Baleshwar Thakur - Professional Career and Contributions -- Section II: Methodology -- Spectral Unmixing with Estimated Adaptive Endmember Index using Extended Support Vector Machine -- Natural Resource Management- Why Micro Matters? Experience from Kerala -- Section III: Global Perspective -- Natural Resource based Livelihoods in the context of climate change: Examining the Stance of Decision-makers in India -- Innovations and Challenges Related to Resource and Environmental Management -- Section IV: Economic Perspectives -- Inherited Land: The Evolution of Land Markets and Rights Before Independence -- The Geographic Distribution of Land Trusts activities in the United States: An Analysis Based on 2005 National Land Trust Census Report Data -- Poverty Reduction and Social Development: Experiences from Bangladesh -- Mineral Resource Potential and Prospects in Chotanagpur Region -- Section V: Ecological Perspective.-Land, Life and Environmental Change in the Himalaya -- Adaptive Management of India's Wildlife Sanctuaries -- Nutrition and Nutritional Deficiency Diseases in Sonbhadra District -- Section VI: Water Management -- Measurement of Water Scarcity -- Nonlinear Groundwater and Agricultural Land Use Change in Rajasthan, India -- Political Ecology of Groundwater Depletion in North -Western India -- Assessment of Human Vulnerability and Risk of Flood Hazards in Orissa, India -- Irrigation Water Demand for the Hindon Basin -- Section VII: Energy and Forest Resources -- Non-conventional Energy Resources in India. Joint Forest Management in India -- Community Forestry and Management of Forest Resources in Bhutan -- Section VIII: Land Cover and Rural Planning -- Land Cover Pattern and Road Types in Lop Buri Province, Thailand, 1989-2006.-Assessment of Capacities of TAOs and CBOs for Local Development in Thailand -- Nature of Land Use and Agricultural Change in Peripheral Regions: A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Keywords: Urban geography; Urban planning; City planning; Sustainable development; Human geography; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urbanism; Sustainable Development; Human Geography