Regional Development Planning and Practice

Sustainable Regional Development with Environmental Practices.- Geopolitics of Sustainable Development.- The Transversal and Territorial Praxis of Regional Development.- Regional Development and Sustainable Responses to Climate Change and other Environmental Issues in Sri Lanka.- Regional Planning Strategy to Sustainable Development in Nepal.- Consequences of Dislocation and Involuntary Migration: Some Lessons from the Teesta River Bank Erosion Affected Communities.- Micro-Spatial Analysis of Rural Accessibility for Imbricating Regional Development: Exemplifying an Indian District.- Managing the Regional Inequalities in India with Particular Reference to the Transformation of Aspirational Districts Programme.- Understanding the Disability Divides in India: A Spatio-temporal Analysis with District-level Datasets.- How Far Gender Inequality Suppresses Human Development: Evidence from India.- Association of Morbidity among Children with Housing, Water, Sanitation Conditions in Urban India: A Policy Perspective.- Urban Heat Island Formation in Relation to Land Transformation: A Study on a Mining Industrial Region of West Bengal.- Housing Conditions with Reference to Seepage in Different Residential Localities in Mumbai.- Livelihood of the Displaced: A Study on Selected Areas of Bangladeshi Immigrants in West Bengal, India.- Household Vulnerability of Tribal People to Climate Change in the Part of Dooars Region, West Bengal, India.- Exploring the Options for Sustainable Livelihood in the Indian Sunderbans: An Attempt through Contingent Valuation Method.

Mukunda Mishra is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and designated vice principal of Dr. Meghnad Saha College in West Bengal, India. The college is affiliated with the University of Gour Banga. Dr. Mishra completed his postgraduate studies in geography and environmental management at Vidyasagar University and holds a Ph.D. in geography from the same university. He was selected for the National Merit Scholarship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. His research chiefly focuses on analyzing unequal human development and creating multi-criteria predictive models. He has more than 10 years of hands-on experience in dealing with development issues at the ground level in various districts of eastern India. Dr. Mishra has in his credit to publish one monograph and two edited research volumes so far from the house of Springer-Nature and he has more than twenty-five research articles and book chapters published in the journals and books of international repute. Besides serving as the reviewer of several reputed journals published by Springer-Nature and Elsevier Inc., he is continuing as the Managing and Publishing Editor of Ensemble, a UGC-CARE (India) enlisted journal of repute, since its inception to date.

 

Dr. R.B. Singh is the former professor of geography at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Presently he holds the position of the secretary general and treasurer of the International Geographical Union (IGU); and the chair of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Food Technological Research Institute of the Government of India. He is also a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the Scientific Committee for Urban Health and Well-Being. He was awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research Fellowship and has presented papers and chaired sessions in more than 45 countries. He has published 14 books, 36 edited