Suchergebnisse

1. Landscape Background Study Area and Wildlife History -- 2. Conceptual Framework of Landscape Spatial Character and Ecological Interaction -- 3. Quantification of Forest Landscape Pattern for Habitat Quality Assessment -- 4. Quality Assessments Through Analysis of Forest Habitat Configuration and Composition -- 5. Assessment of Habitat Structural Connectivity and Corridors from Ecological Point of View -- 6. Species Specific Habitat Quality Assessment– Asian Elephant (Elephas Maximus) -- 7. Effective Landscape Management Methods to Improve Ecological Quality of Forest Habitat: Case Studies in the Fragmented Habitats -- 8. Landscape Management Methods to Enhance Habitat Quality for Wild Life Conservation in General And Elephants in Specific.

Can Wellness be Far Behind?: Disease, Health and Culture / Anindita Chatterjee & Nilanjana Chatterjee -- Section I Social Science Perspective -- Colonialism and Disease: Smallpox in the Aboriginal Population / Bill Ashcroft -- Vaccine Nation and its Miserables: Bodies and Bio-citizenship in the Empire / Mandira Mitra -- Spaces of Cure or Confinement? Inside the walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th Century / Anindita Chatterjee -- Žižek's Pandemic!, the 'New Normal' Dilemma and Some Indian Perspectives / Anasuya Bhar -- Livelihood of Internal Migrants of India during Covid-19 Pandemic: Concerns and Measures / Debasis Charaborty -- Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination during a Pandemic: A Special Reference to India / Chitra Roy -- Hate in the Times of Covid-19: Can we Blame the Print Media in India? / Rumela Sen & Nusrat Farooq -- Neo Liberal Turn in The Domain of Health Care: The Emergence of Corporate Health Care Sector in India / Amrita Bagchi -- Section II Cultural Perspective -- Disease and the Desire for Health in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Subhajit Sen Gupta -- Their Mother's Gardens: Epidemic, Healing and Motherhood in Year of Wonders and Hamnet / Chandrima Das -- "stand aside death...today is my day": Contextualizing the Naga Esotericism in Easterine Kire's Novels / Nilanjana Chatterjee -- Dis-ease, Dis-order and the Refugee Experience: Appraising South Asian Partition Narratives / Debasri Basu -- Always in Search of her Ithaca: Women's Spiritual Wellbeing in Journey to Ithaca: A Pilgrimage in Search of Identity and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything / Nibedita Mukherjee -- Disjunctured Subjectivities and Corporeal Well-being: Issues of Mobility and Health in Select Transgender Life Narratives from India / Rajesh V. Nair & Lekshmi R. Nair -- Sustainable Eating and Wellness: Examining Nutrition Strategies in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year Of Seasonal Eating and Ruth Ozeki's A Year Of Meats / Shymasree Basu -- Disease, Wellbeing, and the Idea of Health in Select Cinematic Representations of the Macbeth Metaphor / Anuradha Mazumder.

The nineteenth- and twentieth-century European texts on "unfamiliar" parts of the world were injected with the idea of terra nullius (more pernicious than its legal and military implications) to justify European imperialism. It is a projection of "diffusionism," which intends to theorize how the "outside" world lacks indigenous geography, history, or culture. In this context, this article takes up Georges Remi Hergé's representations of the Arab world in The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Red Sea Sharks, Cigars of the Pharaoh, and Land of Black Gold to identify traces of the idea of terra nullius albeit it was not legally applied on the land and its people.

PurposeEcologically habitat is an area of a particular species wherefrom its play every relationship with the surrounding. Therefore, every species hold habitat that supports to survive its life. The large terrestrial herbivore animal elephant (Elephas maximus) requires deferent kind of habitat for their biological behaviour. Forest habitat one of the landscapes entire their home range is very much responsible for selecting suitable habitat. The nature of habitat selection by an elephant is deeply concerned with landscape attributes.Design/methodology/approachThe present study started in this opinion. The study area Panchet Forest Division (PFD) has 28 forest patches are not in same size. Generally, forest patches are the most suitable habitat for elephant in every forest landscape as well as in PFD. But which forest patch will be highly suitable that depends on ecological function of other geospatial attributes like patch shape complexity, patch core, road intervention intensity, amount of water body and composition of the forest. The present study measures these attributes by different sequential steps such as field inquiry, satellite image processing and GIS application by using ERDAS 9.3 and ArcGIS 10.3 version software.FindingsAfter measuring these attributes value, Habitat Suitability Index is assessed through combined weighted principle method and prepared a suitability map. This map signifies that Joypur-I and II, Upper Peardoba, Brindabanpur, Kalabagan forest patches have good condition for elephant to prefer as a suitable habitat in PFD.Originality/valueSpatial classification of elephant habitat in PFD helps society and managing authority. It facilitates better management and reducing the chance of human – elephant frequent contact.

Part1. Introduction -- Chapter1. Environmental Sustainability: Status, Scope and Challenges in West Bengal -- Part2. Environmental Issues And Human Sustainability -- Chapter2. Forest Dependency and Rural Livelihood: Strategical Survival of People in Himalayan Foothills of Bengal Duars Region -- Chapter3. Identification of Potential Anthropogenic Barriers on Fluvial Connectivity in the Lower Gangetic Basin of India -- Chapter4. A Case Study of Channel shifting and its impacts on riverside Land Use and Land Cover Using RS and GIS in Teesta River in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India -- Chapter5. Monitoring shifting nature of river Singimari and its impact on riverside Land Use and Landcover in Dinhata-I and Sitai blocks of Cooch Behar district, West Bengal, India -- Chapter6. Societal Instabilities in the Wake of Shifting of River Course: A Study of Hotnagar Char of Bhagirathi River, West Bengal, India -- Chapter7. Strategic Infrastructural Development to Promote Sustainable Coastal Tourism through Geospatial Technology in PurbaMedinipur district, West Bengal -- Chapter8. A Study on the Characteristics of Sea Waves at Mandarmani Sea Beach of West Bengal -- Chapter9. Determining recent trends of forest cover loss and associated driving factors for sustainable management in the dry deciduous forest of West Bengal, India -- Chapter10. Impact of land Inundation Caused by Cyclone 'Amphan' across Bangladesh and India Using Spatial Damage Assessment Framework -- Chapter11. Developmental Project (Bandel Thermal Power Station) and Its Impact on Groundwater: An Empirical Study from Indian Perspective -- Chapter12. Spatio-Temporal Variation of Groundwater Table with Relation to Rainfall Distribution: A Study in Nadia District, West Bengal -- Chapter13. Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones (GWPZ) using Weighted Overlay Model: case study on a semi arid district of West Bengal, India -- Chapter14. Groundwater Irrigation and Consequent Hazards in East Barddhaman District, West Bengal, India -- Chapter15. Debates on Urban Environmental Issues and Trends of Urban Forestry in Kolkata Municipal Corporation: A Quantitative Approach -- Chapter16. Pandemic COVID-19, Reduced Usage of Public Transportation Systems and Urban Environmental Challenges: Few Evidences from India and West Bengal -- Chapter17. Estimating the variability of Ground level annual PM2.5 and PM10 using Landuse Regression Model in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) -- Chapter18. Effects of land use and land cover on Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) in Durgapur-Asansol industrial region: A linear regression approach -- Chapter19. An Exercise on Valuation of Urban Heritage Site, A Comparative Study of Victoria Memorial Hall and Indian Museum, Kolkata -- Chapter20. Population shifting and its effect on women's life: A case study at West Bengal, India -- Chapter21. Social Issues and Sustainability of COVID-19: A District Level Spatio-Temporal Analysis in West Bengal -- Part3. Ecosystem Restoration And Sustainable Development -- Chapter22. Dependence on Forest Products to Sustain Rural Livelihood: An Experience From Bankura Forest, West Bengal -- Chapter 23. Deterioration of Mangrove Forest Induced by Tropical Cyclone Amphan in Indian Sundarban: A Geospatial Analysis toward Sustainable Management[N1] Chapter23. Border netting technology with integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for sustainable chilli leaf curl management -- Chapter24. Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Development in India: A Case Study of West Bengal -- Chapter25. Significance of Sustainable Transportation in Urban Mobility: A Special Study During Covid-19 Unlock Period in Kolkata -- Chapter26. Analyzing the urban land-use dynamics and associated impact on the ecological environment: a study in the selected part of eastern Kolkata for sustainable urban development -- Chapter27. Residents' Perception Towards Environmental Impact of Municipal Solid Waste Disposal and Suitability Analysis for Landfill Site Selection using Geospatial Technique: A Case Study in Ranaghat Municipality, West Bengal -- Chapter 28. Yoga Tourism As An Emerging Branch of Eco-Tourism For The Restoration Of Sustainable Human Environment -- Chapter29. Formulation of geotourism development strategies for potential geoheritage sites in Subarnarekha-Kangsabati interfluve zone using tourist assessment value and SWOT-AHP hybrid model [N1]According to the review report received from springer on 3rd Jan 2023 I am quoting the comment" Chapter 24/Haque et al.: This paper is essentially a mosaic of text taken from other sources, the main two being this paper and this paper. Neither of these papers are by the authors of the chapter. I would recommend cutting this chapter." As per the suggestion we have excluded this paper from the book. So kindly remove it from the content.

Critics have used the colonizer/colonized or the Global North/Global South binaries to restore human rights and freedom. But these planetary or ideological binaries –though theoretically convenient – might not be ecologically sufficient to deal with the ongoing sixth mass extinction (Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History). The need of the hour is to critique the existing knowledge systems (science, technology, politics) through the lens of eco-alterity, wherein every agent of environmental disaster is to be identified as the ecological 'other.' In this context, the unique indigenous participation of the ecological 'selves' is to be deciphered and disseminated: The indigenous ecotopias of the earth might provide insights into ecological sustenance, food sovereignty and coexistence. The present study, therefore, situates the relevance of exploring indigenous ecological knowledge systems by proposing eco-alterity as the tool to liberate victims of 'slow violence' (Nixon). In so doing, it seeks to make visible the unique ecotopia of Naga ecological natives – as represented in Kire's novels – that has survived multiple forms of slow violence.