Glimpses of Hope
Glimpses of Hope

Author: Michael Hoffmann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2023-01-13

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1800738110

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Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle-class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in areas such as modern food-processing, water-bottling, housebuilding, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity. Although global labor relations have been mostly in decline for decades, this ethnography offers insights and glimpses of hope in terms of labor dynamics and the opportunities various jobs may afford.

Glimpses Of Kashmir
Glimpses Of Kashmir

Author: S.K. Sopory

Publisher: APH Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9788176485470

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The Book Contains The Proceedings Of A Seminar Relating To Kashmir And Attempts To Bring About A Synthesis Of Various Scientific Discipline As Well As Synthesis Of Science And Culture And Spritual Heritage Of Kashmir. Divided Into Ii Parts, Part I Covers Contribution Of Kashmiri Scientists And Part Ii Relates To Science, Spirituality And Kashmir Shaivism.

Climate Change and its Ecological Implications for the Western Himalaya
Climate Change and its Ecological Implications for the Western Himalaya

Author: V. L. Chopra

Publisher: Scientific Publishers

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9387307352

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In its thirteen chapters, this book deals with biophysical, biological, hydrological, meteorological and socio-economic aspects of western Himalayan region of India. It emphasizes on the need for strengthening institutional and research capacities that are critical to delivering meaningful and sustainable outcomes & impacts in return for the investments made. It also makes recommendations for the policy, planning and administrative interventions & reforms necessary for efficient and equitable delivery of benefits to the intended beneficiaries and for conservation of the valuable natural resources of the region. Each chapter has been prepared by a recognized expert in the identified area and the treatment bears the required mark of quality & authenticity.

Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya
Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya

Author: Arjun Guneratne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-24

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1135192863

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This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy makers in the fields of environmental conservation and development. The chapters in this book analyse the symbolic schema that shape human-environment relations, whether that of scientists studying the Himalayan environment, public officials crafting policy about it, or people making a living from their engagement with it, and the way that natural phenomena themselves shape human perception of the world. A new approach to the study of the environment in South Asia, this book introduces the new thinking in environmental anthropology and geography into the study of the Himalaya and uses Himalayan ethnography to interrogate and critique contemporary theorizing about the environment.

Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya
Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya

Author: Arjun Guneratne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-24

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1135192871

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Drawing on Himalayan ethnography to interrogate and critique contemporary theorizing about the environment, this book examines how the environment is conceptualized among different social groups in the region. A new approach to the study of the environment in South Asia, this book introduces the new thinking in environmental anthropology and geography into the study of the Himalaya.