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This book brings together the emerging trends and techniques
incorporated in regional science during the first two decades of
this millennium. The book includes systematic and analytical notes
making scientific commentary on the innovative methods of regional
development, measurement of the development, regional development
models, and policy measures that have significant implications and
wide applicability instrumental for India as well as the other
global south countries. There is clear evidence in the global south
of the uneven spatial distribution of resources, economic
activities, literacy, and health conditions. The most striking fact
is the coexistence of development and underdevelopment that makes
the planning process complicated. This can hardly be explored
without taking a deep insight into the matter of how the regional
parameters are impacting regional society or economy to shape the
development of that region. There can be no effective global policy
framework that will be effective equally for each and every region
to mitigate local issues of society or economy. It is here that the
book integrates the efforts of practitioners working towards
addressing these regional issues and striving for sustainable
regional development through their innovative ideas. Through its
contributions, the book addresses development issues, regional
impact of climate change, social justice, migration, well-being,
livelihood vulnerabilities, and regional urban-environmental issues
from the standpoint of regional science. It is a significant
resource for researchers of spatial science, and policy makers.
We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19,
which has been devastating in its consequences. Beyond the acute
health hazard, the pandemic has carried with it other threats for
mankind associated with the human economy, society, culture,
psychology and politics. Amidst these multifarious dimensions of
the pandemic, it is high time for global solidarity to save
humankind.Human society, its ambient environment, the process of
socio-economic development, and politics and power - all are
drivers to establish the world order. All these parameters are
intimately and integrally related. The interconnections of these
three driving forces have a significant bearing on life, space and
time. In parallel, the interrelationship between all these drivers
is dynamic, and they are changed drastically with time and space.
The statistics serve to align the thought, based on which social
scientists need to understand the prevailing equation to project
the unforeseen future. The trajectory of the future world helps in
planning and policymaking with a scientific direction.The
practitioners of all academic disciplines under the umbrella of the
social sciences need a common platform to exchange ideas that may
be effective in the sustainable management of the crisis and the
way forward after it is mitigated. This book provides
multidisciplinary contributions for expressing the solidarity of
academic knowledge to fight against this global challenge. It is
crucial that there should be an on-going discussion and exchange of
ideas, not only from the perspective of the current times but
keeping in view the preparedness for unforeseen post-COVID crises
as well.
This book brings together the emerging trends and techniques
incorporated in regional science during the first two decades of
this millennium. The book includes systematic and analytical notes
making scientific commentary on the innovative methods of regional
development, measurement of the development, regional development
models, and policy measures that have significant implications and
wide applicability instrumental for India as well as the other
global south countries. There is clear evidence in the global south
of the uneven spatial distribution of resources, economic
activities, literacy, and health conditions. The most striking fact
is the coexistence of development and underdevelopment that makes
the planning process complicated. This can hardly be explored
without taking a deep insight into the matter of how the regional
parameters are impacting regional society or economy to shape the
development of that region. There can be no effective global policy
framework that will be effective equally for each and every region
to mitigate local issues of society or economy. It is here that the
book integrates the efforts of practitioners working towards
addressing these regional issues and striving for sustainable
regional development through their innovative ideas. Through its
contributions, the book addresses development issues, regional
impact of climate change, social justice, migration, well-being,
livelihood vulnerabilities, and regional urban-environmental issues
from the standpoint of regional science. It is a significant
resource for researchers of spatial science, and policy makers.
This book acquaints readers with a range of techniques to help them
effectively identify, record, map, analyze and report on patterns
in various dimensions of human development (HD) with spatial scales
down to the village level. It is impossible to capture HD at the
local and global scale with only a single index, because
differences in HD at the international scale are caused by
'general' factors, whereas local-scale differences are influenced
by 'specific' factors. This book offers a variety of methods for
scientifically mapping HD at any spatial scale. It covers how to
rationally select variables; how to test the models; how to
validate the results, and how to analyze them. For this purpose, it
employs a case study on an Indian district. The socio-economic
factors regulating the patterns of HD are now more complex than
they were only a few decades ago, making it essential to
incorporate newer models in order to successfully 'replicate' the
real-world situation. Accordingly, the book offers essential
methodological tools & techniques for mapping HD. It sheds new
light on a handful of statistical multivariate analysis and machine
learning algorithms that are rarely used in the social sciences
when dealing with HD, yet have sound mathematical and statistical
bases. These techniques can be successfully used for predictive
analysis in the earth & natural sciences, decision sciences and
management disciplines, and are equally effective in terms of
capturing, predicting and projecting the composite HD 'landscape.'
This book will especially benefit two groups of readers: firstly,
HD practitioners who want to find out 'why some areas are doing
better than others' by exploring the complex interactions of
spatially linked variables with different HD parameters. And
secondly, practitioners in other branches of the social sciences
who are not concerned with HD but are looking for 'hands-on
training' with techniques they can apply in their respective field
of spatial investigations.
This book acquaints readers with a range of techniques to help them
effectively identify, record, map, analyze and report on patterns
in various dimensions of human development (HD) with spatial scales
down to the village level. It is impossible to capture HD at the
local and global scale with only a single index, because
differences in HD at the international scale are caused by
'general' factors, whereas local-scale differences are influenced
by 'specific' factors. This book offers a variety of methods for
scientifically mapping HD at any spatial scale. It covers how to
rationally select variables; how to test the models; how to
validate the results, and how to analyze them. For this purpose, it
employs a case study on an Indian district. The socio-economic
factors regulating the patterns of HD are now more complex than
they were only a few decades ago, making it essential to
incorporate newer models in order to successfully 'replicate' the
real-world situation. Accordingly, the book offers essential
methodological tools & techniques for mapping HD. It sheds new
light on a handful of statistical multivariate analysis and machine
learning algorithms that are rarely used in the social sciences
when dealing with HD, yet have sound mathematical and statistical
bases. These techniques can be successfully used for predictive
analysis in the earth & natural sciences, decision sciences and
management disciplines, and are equally effective in terms of
capturing, predicting and projecting the composite HD 'landscape.'
This book will especially benefit two groups of readers: firstly,
HD practitioners who want to find out 'why some areas are doing
better than others' by exploring the complex interactions of
spatially linked variables with different HD parameters. And
secondly, practitioners in other branches of the social sciences
who are not concerned with HD but are looking for 'hands-on
training' with techniques they can apply in their respective field
of spatial investigations.
This book portrays India as a representative of post-colonial
democratic republic states with a parliamentary form of
federal-structured government and analyzes the critical challenges
faced by such states in generating broadly shared economic
well-being and quality of life. The reader is shown how creating
and utilizing physical, human, financial, and social assets under
the aegis of public policies help achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) to provide a global framework to move
toward a more equitable, peaceful, resilient, and prosperous
society by 2030. It not only addresses how the state’s capacity
has long been linked to the available economic resources, but also
unfolds how the political system thus evolves to crucially
determine the capacity of the state to implement its programs. The
chapters of this book are particularly focused on judging the
state’s capacity amid the neo-liberal ascendancy that has been
triggered by the opening up of both the domestic and external
economy, significantly initiated since 1991 and popularly known as
the economic reforms in India. Examined here is the potency of the
public policies of the country in fulfilling the sustainable
development agendas, the specificity of which places the state at
the heart of its execution, unlike many other versions of
development that would be executed in parallel with or without
states’ action. This work book has three principal foci facets
within the broad swath of discussions covered by different
chapters: (1) It critically examines how successful remains the
public policies in mobilizing the population is mobilized to the
next orbit of income, employment, education, and health consequent
to amid the existing considerable magnitude of social and economic
inequalities while achieving “equity” has always been the
declared agenda in the post-reform public policy frameworks; (2) It
traces the rationality of the transformation of the public policies
and welfare strategies during the post-reform period in terms of
motives, goals, and coverage to achieve the SDGs; and, (3) It
reviews specific post-reform policies in terms of their potency to
stimulate the system in addressing sustainable development. and
upholding the state’s dominant and structuring intervention to
resolve the existing inequalities and ensure that society develops
amidst a harmonious world reconciled with nature.
This book acquaints the reader with the critical changes in India's
economy and society amidst the unprecedented pandemic outbreak of
COVID-19, which has been devastating by breaking all prior records
of illness and fatality. The present crisis is shown to be more
than an acute health hazard as it carries with it other threats
associated with the economy, society, culture, psychology, and
politics. The dynamic driving forces that have a significant
bearing on life, space, and time are explored, providing a basis on
which social scientists can understand the prevailing equations and
project the unforeseen future to contribute to a policymaking
mechanism. The Indian scenario presented here takes into account
how the COVID-19-induced lockdown of transport services, closing of
factories, and restrictions on mobilization have caused the economy
to face a recession, affecting mostly the unorganized sector.
Travel restrictions and quarantines affecting hundreds of millions
of people have left Indian factories short of labour, causing havoc
in the production system. Semi-skilled jobholders have lost their
employment, and the country has witnessed the plight of large pools
of migrant labourers returning on foot to their homelands hundreds
of miles away with their families and belongings. Contributors to
this volume are drawn from diverse disciplines, displaying the
solidarity of academic knowledge in a physically divided world.
This common platform is provided to the practitioners of relevant
academic disciplines under the umbrella of regional sciences - a
forum for the exchange of ideas that may be effective in the
sustainable management of the crisis and a way forward after it is
mitigated. Thought-provoking discussions regarding different facets
of the crisis are relevant not only to the current times but also
to being prepared for the unforeseen post-COVID economic and
societal order.
This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and
scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative
methods of regional development, measurement of the development in
regional scale, regional development models, and policy
prescriptions. Conceptualizing development as a regional process is
a geographer's brainchild, and the sense of region has long been
rooted deeply in the fundamental research practices that
geographers are accustomed to. The geographical perspective of
regions entails conceptualizing them nested horizontally as the
formal region and hierarchical relationships in space with spatial
flows or interactions as the functional region. In geographical
research, the region works as a tool by serving as a statistical
unit of analysis. More importantly, however, regions serve as the
fundamental spatial units of management and planning by specifying
a territory or a part of it for which a certain spatial development
or regulatory plan is sought. This book addresses the complex
processes in different regions of the world, particularly South
Asia, to perceive the regional development planning involved and
the sustainable management practiced there. The book is a useful
resource for socio-economic planners, policymakers, and policy
researchers.
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