Ian Burton, Robert W. Kates, Gilbert F. White
The Environment as Hazard offers an understanding of how people around the world deal with dramatic fluctuations in the local natural systems of air, water, and terrain. Reviewing recent theoretical and methodological changes in the investigation of natural hazards, the authors describe how research...
Tania Gilbert, Pritpal S. Soorae
The world is facing a biodiversity crisis and populations of surviving species have substantially declined. This has led to small and fragmented wildlife populations that are then at greater risk of extinction from intrinsic population factors and chance events. Conservation translocations can count...
Sarthi Acharya
The Changing Village in India--Insights from Longitudinal Research Himanshu, Praveen Jha and Gerry Rodgers (Eds.) New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2016 This book is a collection of 17 essays, including an Introduction that highlights upon the methodological issues and shortcomings in drawing infer...
W. S. Tsai, S. L. Shih, S. K. Green, F.-J. Jan
Whitefly-transmitted, cucurbit-infecting begomoviruses (genus Begomovirus, family Geminiviridae) have been detected on cucurbit crops in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, United States, and Vietnam. Pumpkin plants showing leaf curling, blistering, and yel...
James L. Wescoat
The early decades of the 21st century will witness increased efforts to learn from water experiences and experiments in distant places and times. Water problems in different regions are increasingly linked through processes of globalization that drive the international diffusion of water technologie...
M. W. Holdgate, Mohamed El‐Kassas, Gilbert F. White
The United Nations General Assembly has instructed the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to keep the world environmental situation under review. In 1982, 10 years after the UN Conference on the Human Environment at Stockholm, the first comprehensive report on the state of...
Md. Ashraful Alam, Jing Huang, Nano Alemu Daba, Tianfu Han et al.
The greenhouse gas (GHG) flux from rice crops under inorganic or organic fertilization has accumulated considerable interest due to ongoing agricultural intensification. However, impacts of substituting inorganic fertilizer with cattle manure or combining both on net greenhouse gas emissions (NGHGE)...
Fern R. Hauck, James S. Kemp
To the Editor. McKenna, Mosko, and Richard compare nocturnal breastfeeding patterns of 35 infants while both sleeping with their mothers and while sleeping alone in a laboratory setting.1 Although the results of the study are interesting and it is difficult to argue with the desirability of enhancin...
Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, Angshuman Sarker
There are a number of methods to obtain information about a person’s understanding of science (White & Gunston, 1992; Tunnicliffe & Reiss, 1999a). Drawings are considered one useful tool (Haney et al., 2004). Most techniques require respondents to talk or write their answers to questions. Osborne an...
Zhiyuan Shi, Xueliang Hou
Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 213 (1832) Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 213 (1832); Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 147 (1855); Fl. Brit. India 1: 86 (1872); Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 1: 46 (1877); Finet & Gagnep. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 1: 109 (1907); J. ...
Zhiyuan Shi, Xueliang Hou
Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 213 (1832) Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 213 (1832); Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 147 (1855); Fl. Brit. India 1: 86 (1872); Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 1: 46 (1877); Finet & Gagnep. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 1: 109 (1907); J. ...
Zhiyuan Shi, Xueliang Hou
Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 213 (1832) Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 213 (1832); Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 147 (1855); Fl. Brit. India 1: 86 (1872); Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 1: 46 (1877); Finet & Gagnep. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 1: 109 (1907); J. ...
Zhiyuan Shi, Xueliang Hou
Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 213 (1832) Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 5: 213 (1832); Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 147 (1855); Fl. Brit. India 1: 86 (1872); Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 1: 46 (1877); Finet & Gagnep. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 1: 109 (1907); J. ...
James L. Wescoat, Basit Bilal Koshul, Abubakr Muhammad
Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled. However, our rev...
Roslyn S. Fraser
Several scholars, and even a few journalists,1 have written about the figure of the international tourist who uses South Asia as a canvas upon which one can create and recreate the self. Perhaps the most discernable example in the pop culture imagination is Elizabeth Gilbert’s trip to an ashram in I...