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Ecosystem Restoration: Towards Sustainability and Resilient Development
This edited book offers coverage towards SDG 15 in particular, but it provides for all the SDGs in general. The book is an inclusive comprehension on ecosystem restoration and sustainability including agricultural and ecosystem resilience, the role of biodiversity, climate change and water resources, hydrological modelling, extreme events, disaster risk and management, sustainable policy making on disaster management. The world is facing diverse and severe challenges. Millions of people are suffering from the catastrophic effects of extreme disasters, climate emergencies, water and food insecurity, and the repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic. Ecosystems are essential players in people’s cap...
Transnational Immigrants
This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian ‘high-tech’ workers living in the United States. It describes the complexities and challenges of adapting to a new culture while clinging to tradition. Asian-Indians represent a significant part of the professional and ‘high-tech’ workforce in the United States, and the majority are temporary workers, working on contractual jobs (H1-B and L1 work visa category). Further, it is not unusual for Indian immigrant workers to marry and have children while working in the U.S. Gradually, they learn to negotiate the U.S. cultural terrain in both their place of work and at home in the U.S. As such there is th...
Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR)
This special issue of the Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR) focuses on the ‘COVID-19 Pandemic and India’. The whole journal divided into the following sections: Insights, Policy Perspectives, Special Articles, Young Voices, and Report Review. Articles in these sections cover the COVID-19 pandemic that has already posed and continues to pose innumerable challenges for policymakers and citizens across the globe.
Integrated Risk of Pandemic: Covid-19 Impacts, Resilience and Recommendations
In light of the novel corona virus outbreak in December 2019 and its subsequent impact on entire world as a global pandemic, the book attempts to provide integrated risk assessment on Covid -19 like pandemics, as well as to understand the societal, environment and economic impact of the outbreak in various sectors of development. It covers fundamental factors of global disease outbreaks and its coverage as major disaster through the complexity and severity of consequences, illustrating the dimensions of low frequency high intensity disasters. It brings together broad range of topics including basic concepts, isolation measure, role of governance and key technical advancements for containing ...
Heathen Hail Hel
Harish joins a university for his masters' degree. He happens to meet Rupali, who used to be his crush during his school days. He develops the habit of following her up to her hostel. One day he comes across the figurine of a deity while following Rupali. He comes to know that the figurine was of Hel, an ancient goddess. Harish knows that a girl had committed suicide in the hostel where Rupali was living . Out of curiosity the boy decides to invoke the spirit of the deceased girl by using the figurine of Hel in order to woo Rupali. The entity of the deceased girl hears the call of Harish and agrees to help him but at the cost of the lifespan of the boy.
Who Cares?
The recent global pandemic highlighted the crucial role played by (mostly female) care workers in providing health services across the world. At the same time, it exposed the deep vulnerabilities and precarities of their lives—abysmally low wages, long working hours, social prejudice, notorious undervaluation—at the hands of an uncaring and exploitative economic system. The editors of this volume identify this as ‘care extractivism’, a strategy that enables the simultaneous extraction and undervaluation of care work, something in which governments and societies are both complicit. Further, they point to the impact of liberalization and professionalization on the political economy of ...
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Ground Zero
Critical comments on “Ground Zero” – short stories translated from Punjabi Diction /language of Rani Naginder’s short stories is poetic. It has a special reason being employed as a literary device. Characters populating her stories are victims of dilemma, alienation, melancholy, tension, and epitomize feelings of insecurity. Traditional language of fiction can’t capture the aforesaid shades of the human mind and condition. Poetic diction is quite robust and appropriate to express the internal but intense occurrences of these characters. Rani’s stories permeate not only with a wide variety of multi-linear subjects but also endow these with depth since she has exposure to both East...
Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
From molecular motors to bacteria, from crawling cells to large animals, active entities are found at all scales in the biological world. Active matter encompasses systems whose individual constituents irreversibly dissipate energy to exert self-propelling forces on their environment. Over the past twenty years, scientists have managed to engineer synthetic active particles in the lab, paving the way towards smart active materials. This book gathers a pedagogical set of lecture notes that cover topics in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and active matter. These lecture notes stem from the first summer school on Active Matter delivered at the Les Houches school of Physics. The lectures covered four main research directions: collective behaviours in active-matter systems, passive and active colloidal systems, biophysics and active matter, and nonequilibrium statistical physics--from passive to active.
