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Organic Update
Organic farming is providing a good option for many by providing climate resilience in stressed water regimes as well as achieving a competitive market. If developed adequately, organic farming can br...
Uncertain weather: organic farmers keep sowing
Though organic farming in the Sundarban is bringing food security, economic uplift and increased protection against climate change, it is largely the women who are working themselves to the bone. Unfo...
Bloody Plastics-Part II: The Alternatives
The modern sanitary pads being primarily plastics, clog up drainage and incinerating it leads to noxious air pollutants. Putting the used napkins in landfills adds toxins to the soil and groundwater....
Are we happy?
Strengthening the case that well-being should be a critical component of how the world measures its economic and social development, the 2013 World Happiness Report has identified the countries with t...
Quantitative Geographers
This section brings to lights a few of the prominent figures that gave rise to what we know as the quantitative revolution in geography. It is with their path breaking work that we today see geography...
Quantitative methods: Regionalisation through composite indices
Though there are some limitations of composite indices, they are an enabling tool for geographical regionalisation, a tool that is also becoming increasingly popular with policy makers. Development in...
New Updates July-August 2013
India’s fragility arises from its need to protect its ever growing populace. In a changing climatic scenario where nature has turned maverick, we need newer technologies to outwit the downtrend.