Heatwaves are no longer climate anomalies; they are the new normal. As India enters an era of prolonged, intense, and unpredictable thermal extremes, its rural backbone is showing signs of distress. I...
India, a nation perched precariously on one of the most active seismic belts in the world, faces a curious paradox: despite mounting geological evidence and rising urban vulnerability, public understa...
Heatwaves have become one of the most lethal and least acknowledged consequences of climate change in India. What was once an occasional extreme is now a defining feature of India’s seasonal climate,...
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...
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...
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 in a new perspective—one that defines in numbers the various spatial phenomenon.
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 indices worked out using the human development index (HDI) and principal component analysis (PCA) have been compared in this article.
