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1. A Scenario Based Impact Assessment of Trace Metals on Ecosystem of River Ganges Using Multivariate Analysis Coupled with Fuzzy Decision-Making Approach

Author:
R. Srinivas; Ajit Pratap Singh; Rishikesh Sharma
Source:
Water resources management 2017 v.31 no.13 pp. 4165-4185
ISSN:
0920-4741
Subject:
cadmium; case studies; chromium; computer software; consciousness; copper; death; decision making; ecological imbalance; ecosystems; fish; food chain; humans; lead; manganese; models; multivariate analysis; nickel; poisoning; pollutants; pollution control; principal component analysis; risk; rivers; streams; surface water; wastewater; water quality; zinc; India
Abstract:
... The growing consciousness about the health risks associated with environmental pollutants has brought a major shift in global concern towards prevention of hazardous/trace metals discharge in water bodies. Majority of these trace metals gets accumulated in the body of aquatic lives, which are considered as potential indicators of hazardous content. This results in an ecological imbalance in the fo ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11269-017-1738-y

2. Analyzing and modeling of a large river basin dynamics applying integrated cellular automata and Markov model

Author:
Brij Kishor Pandey; Deepak Khare
Source:
Environmental earth sciences 2017 v.76 no.22 pp. 779
ISSN:
1866-6280
Subject:
Landsat; Markov chain; basins; cropland; decision making; land cover; land use; models; remote sensing; sustainable development; vegetation; watersheds; India
Abstract:
... Historical and exact information about the land use/land cover change is very important for regional sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to determine the rapid changes in land use/land cover (LULC) pattern due to agriculture expansion, environmental calamities such as flood and government policies over Upper Narmada basin, India. Multi-temporal Landsat satellite images for years 1990 ...
DOI:
10.1007/s12665-017-7133-4

3. Application of reanalysis data to estimate offshore wind potential in EEZ of India based on marine ecosystem considerations

Author:
Garlapati Nagababu; Surendra Singh Kachhwaha; Natansh K. Naidu; Vimal Savsani
Source:
Energy 2017 v.118 pp. 622-631
ISSN:
0360-5442
Subject:
anthropogenic activities; climate change; coasts; data collection; decision making; energy; geographic information systems; marine ecosystems; pollution; wind power; wind speed; India
Abstract:
... India is striving hard to develop new and renewable energy resources on a vast scale, to meet its future energy demands. To fulfill the need of renewable energy resources, utilization of wind energy is a good option to avoid several issues of pollution and climate change caused by the consumption of fossil fuels. The present study aims to provide a summary of offshore wind energy potential availab ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.energy.2016.10.097

4. Assessing decision-making and economic performance of farmers to manage climate-induced crisis in Coastal Karnataka (India)

Author:
H. M. Vinaya Kumar; M. Shivamurthy; V. Govinda Gowda; G. S. Biradar
Source:
Climatic change 2017 v.142 no.1-2 pp. 143-153
ISSN:
0165-0009
Subject:
agricultural industry; climate change; climatic factors; decision making; disaster recovery; economic performance; farm income; farmers; farms; fisheries; interviews; issues and policy; natural resources; socioeconomic status; India
Abstract:
... In recent years among the scientific community, adverse effects of climate change shifted from being a hypothesis to being a reality. Coastal Karnataka prioritized climate variability as a productivity-reducing factor in agriculture and fishery farming. Prevailing unsatisfactory productive services in the agricultural sector and allied industries resulted in degradation of natural resources at the ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10584-017-1928-x

5. Assessing the impacts of urbanization on the thermal environment of Ranchi City (India) using geospatial technology

Author:
Kamalesh Mohanta; L.K. Sharma
Source:
Remote sensing applications 2017 v.8 pp. 54-63
ISSN:
2352-9385
Subject:
Landsat; altitude; decision making; heat island; land use; monitoring; planning; remote sensing; surface temperature; sustainable development; urbanization; India
Abstract:
... Understanding, monitoring and mitigating the effects of increasing urbanization on the environment is essential for sustainable development. The objective of this study is to find out how and at what extent the spatio-temporal dynamics of Land Surface Temperature of Ranchi, Jharkhand (India) is affected by urbanization. In this study, the temporal Landsat images were used to derive the land use/la ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.rsase.2017.07.008

6. Assessment of groundwater potential zones using multi-influencing factor (MIF) and GIS: a case study from Birbhum district, West Bengal

Author:
Raju Thapa; Srimanta Gupta; Shirshendu Guin; Harjeet Kaur
Source:
Applied water science 2017 v.7 no.7 pp. 4117-4131
ISSN:
2190-5487
Subject:
case studies; computer software; decision making; drainage; geographic information systems; geomorphology; groundwater; land cover; land use; models; monitoring; planning; prediction; rain; raster data; remote sensing; soil texture; soil types; wells; India
Abstract:
... Remote sensing and GIS play a vital role in exploration and assessment of groundwater and has wide application in detection, monitoring, assessment, conservation and various other fields of groundwater-related studies. In this research work, delineation of groundwater potential zone in Birbhum district has been carried out. Various thematic layers viz. geology, geomorphology, soil type, elevation, ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13201-017-0571-z

7. Attitudes and cooperation: does gender matter in community-based forest management?

Author:
Biswajit Ray; Promita Mukherjee; Rabindra N. Bhattacharya
Source:
Environment and development economics 2017 v.22 no.5 pp. 594-623
ISSN:
1469-4395
Subject:
attitudes and opinions; biomass; collaborative management; decision making; forest communities; forest management; forests; gender differences; households; income; men; surveys; women; India
Abstract:
... Does gender matter in people's attitudes and cooperation in community-based natural resource management? If so, how do gender differences in conservation-related attitudes help or hinder sustaining the commons? Since biases ingrained in community norms and expectations often exclude women from decision making in co-management, it is imperative to find plausible answers to these queries in order to ...
DOI:
10.1017/S1355770X16000358

8. Climate adaptation approaches and key policy characteristics: Cases from South Asia

Author:
Sumit Vij; Eddy Moors; Bashir Ahmad; Md. Arfanuzzaman; Suruchi Bhadwal; Robbert Biesbroek; Giovanna Gioli; Annemarie Groot; Dwijen Mallick; Bimal Regmi; Basharat Ahmed Saeed; Sultan Ishaq; Bhuwan Thapa; Saskia E. Werners; Philippus Wester
Source:
Environmental science & policy 2017 v.78 pp. 58-65
ISSN:
1462-9011
Subject:
climate; climate change; decision making; governance; government agencies; issues and policy; planning; Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Pakistan
Abstract:
... This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.envsci.2017.09.007

9. Collating and validating indigenous and local knowledge to apply multiple knowledge systems to an environmental challenge: A case-study of pollinators in India

Author:
Barbara M Smith; Priyadarshini Chakrabarti; Arnob Chatterjee; Soumik Chatterjee; Uday Kumar Dey; Lynn V Dicks; Bhagirath Giri; Supratim Laha; Rabindra Kumar Majhi; Parthiba Basu
Source:
Biological conservation 2017 v.211 pp. 20-28
ISSN:
0006-3207
Subject:
Amegilla; Apis cerana; Xylocopa; biodiversity; climate change; crop yield; decision making; farmers; habitats; insects; methodology; pesticides; pests; pollinators; scientists; soil quality; vegetable crops; water management; India
Abstract:
... There is an important role for indigenous and local knowledge in a Multiple Evidence Base to make decisions about the use of biodiversity and its management. This is important both to ensure that the knowledge base is complete (comprising both scientific and local knowledge) and to facilitate participation in the decision making process. We present a novel method to gather evidence in which we use ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.biocon.2017.04.032

10. Consumer decision‐making styles and post purchase behaviour of poor for Fast Moving Consumer Goods

Author:
Arvind Kumar; Anupama Vohra; Hamendra Kumar Dangi
Source:
International journal of consumer studies 2017 v.41 no.2 pp. 121-137
ISSN:
1470-6423
Subject:
consciousness; consumer behavior; consumers (people); decision making; developing countries; equations; income; industry; models; prices; purchasing; India
Abstract:
... More than half of the world's population is poor. Certainly, their purchasing power cannot be compared with that of the riches, but it is their collective purchase potential which makes them a substantial market. The fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs), on the other hand, are the fourth largest industry in the world. FMCGs are relatively low cost products and the poor, by necessity, spend a signifi ...
DOI:
10.1111/ijcs.12320

11. Development of a water quality index (WQI) for the Loktak Lake in India

Author:
Rajiv Das Kangabam; Sarojini Devi Bhoominathan; Suganthi Kanagaraj; Munisamy Govindaraju
Source:
Applied water science 2017 v.7 no.6 pp. 2907-2918
ISSN:
2190-5487
Subject:
World Health Organization; anthropogenic activities; biochemical oxygen demand; calcium; carbon; chemical oxygen demand; chlorides; decision making; drinking; electrical conductivity; fluorides; guidelines; humans; hydrogen; lakes; magnesium; nitrates; nitrites; nitrogen dioxide; oxygen; pH; people; phosphates; potassium; sodium; sulfates; temperature; total dissolved solids; turbidity; water hardness; water potential; wetlands; India
Abstract:
... The present work was carried out to assess a water quality index (WQI) of the Loktak Lake, an important wetland which has been under pressure due to the increasing anthropogenic activities. Physicochemical parameters like temperature (Tem), potential hydrogen (pH), electrical conductivity (EC), turbidity (T), dissolved oxygen (DO), total hardness (TH), calcium (Ca), chloride (Cl), fluoride (F), su ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13201-017-0579-4

12. Differences in the progress of the biopesticide revolution between the EU and other major crop‐growing regions

Author:
Adalbert Balog; Tibor Hartel; Hugh D Loxdale; Kenneth Wilson
Source:
Pest management science 2017 v.73 no.11 pp. 2203-2208
ISSN:
1526-498X
Subject:
European Union; agricultural industry; biopesticides; crop management; decision making; models; politics; world markets; Brazil; China; India; United States
Abstract:
... The five‐year value in the compound annual growth rate of the biopesticides sector is predicted to be 16% by 2017 and to produce a global market worth $US 10 billion. Despite this, several impediments occur within the EU that negatively affect biopesticide research and innovation. At present, there are fewer biopesticide‐active substances registered in the EU compared with the United States, India ...
DOI:
10.1002/ps.4596

13. Exclusions in inclusive programs: state-sponsored sustainable development initiatives amongst the Kurichya in Kerala, India

Author:
T. R. Suma; Kristina Großmann
Source:
Agriculture and human values 2017 v.34 no.4 pp. 995-1006
ISSN:
0889-048X
Subject:
biodiversity; decentralization; decision making; fertilizers; food security; indigenous knowledge; labor; politics; poverty; rice; seeds; sustainable development; women in agriculture; India
Abstract:
... We critically discuss the impact of sustainable development initiatives in Kerala, India, on biodiversity and on women farmers in the matrilineal Adivasi community of the Kurichya-tribe in Wayanad. By contextualizing development programs regarding the specifically gendered access to land, division of labor, distribution of knowledge and decision-making power, we situate our analysis within the the ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10460-016-9758-4

14. Factors Influencing Water System Functionality in Nigeria and Tanzania: A Regression and Bayesian Network Analysis

Author:
Cronk Ryan; Bartram Jamie
Source:
Environmental Science & Technology 2017 v.51 no.19 pp. 11336-11345
ISSN:
1520-5851
Subject:
Bayesian theory; decision making; environmental science; human development; humans; issues and policy; livestock; models; monitoring; India; Nigeria; Tanzania
Abstract:
... Sufficient, safe, and continuously available water services are important for human development and health yet many water systems in low- and middle-income countries are nonfunctional. Monitoring data were analyzed using regression and Bayesian networks (BNs) to explore factors influencing the functionality of 82 503 water systems in Nigeria and Tanzania. Functionality varied by system type. In Ta ...
DOI:
10.1021/acs.est.7b03287

15. Fuzzy multi-objective approach for optimal selection of suppliers and transportation decisions in an eco-efficient closed loop supply chain network

Author:
Kannan Govindan; Jyoti Dhingra Darbari; Vernika Agarwal; P.C. Jha
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2017 v.165 pp. 1598-1619
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
carbon; case studies; consciousness; data collection; decision making; emissions; environmental impact; markets; models; planning; printers; profits and margins; supply chain; transportation; India
Abstract:
... Establishment of a closed loop supply chain (CLSC) network has attracted immense significance due to government policies and societal demand for environmental consciousness. However, to enhance the financial and ecological impact of the network, the forward and reverse supply chain networks must integrate well so that decisions taken in both areas complement each other. In this study, we propose a ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.180

16. Gender and inorganic nitrogen: what are the implications of moving towards a more balanced use of nitrogen fertilizer in the tropics?

Author:
Cathy Rozel Farnworth; Clare Stirling; Tek B. Sapkota; M. L. Jat; Michael Misiko; Simon Attwood
Source:
International journal of agricultural sustainability 2017 v.15 no.2 pp. 136-152
ISSN:
1747-762X
Subject:
case studies; children; climate change; decision making; food security; gender; greenhouse gas emissions; greenhouse gases; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; nutrient use efficiency; tropics; women; Eastern Africa; India; Lake Victoria
Abstract:
... For agriculture to play a role in climate change mitigation strategies to reduce emissions from inorganic nitrogen (N) fertilizer through a more balanced and efficient use are necessary. Such strategies should align with the overarching principle of sustainable intensification and will need to consider the economic, environmental and social trade-offs of reduced fertilizer-related emissions. Howev ...
DOI:
10.1080/14735903.2017.1295343

17. Gender and land dispossession: a comparative analysis

Author:
Michael Levien
Source:
Journal of peasant studies 2017 v.44 no.6 pp. 1111-1134
ISSN:
1743-9361
Subject:
Elaeis guineensis; agricultural land; decision making; gender; irrigation; labor; land ownership; land rights; rice; rural population; rural women; Gambia; India; Indonesia
Abstract:
... This paper seeks to advance our understanding of the gendered implications of land dispossession. It does so through a comparative analysis of five cases of rural land dispossession driven by different economic purposes in diverse agrarian contexts: the English enclosures; colonial and post-colonial rice irrigation projects in The Gambia; large dams in India; oil palm cultivation in Indonesia; and ...
DOI:
10.1080/03066150.2017.1367291

18. Informing women and improving sanitation: Evidence from rural India

Author:
YuJung Julia Lee
Source:
Journal of rural studies 2017 v.55 pp. 203-215
ISSN:
0743-0167
Subject:
children; decision making; gender; households; ownership; radio; sanitation; television; waterborne diseases; women; India
Abstract:
... A lack of access to sanitation not only has negative effects on the health outcomes of women, it adversely affects their physical security and threatens the lives of children, who are most susceptible to water-borne diseases. This paper explores the underlying conditions that improve access to basic sanitation services for women, with a particular focus on the role information has on the ownership ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.07.012

19. Internal validity and reliability of experience-based household food insecurity scales in Indian settings

Author:
Vani Sethi; Chandana Maitra; Rasmi Avula; Sayeed Unisa; Surbhi Bhalla
Source:
Agriculture & food security 2017 v.6 no.1 pp. 21
ISSN:
2048-7010
Subject:
cognition; decision making; diet; food security; issues and policy; statistics; surveys; India
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Experience-based household food insecurity (HFI) scales are not included in large-scale Indian surveys. There is limited evidence on which experience-based HFI scale or questions within a scale are most relevant for India. Between 01 June and 31 August 2015, we reviewed 19 published and unpublished studies, conducted in India between January 2000 and June 2015, which used experience-ba ...
DOI:
10.1186/s40066-017-0099-3

20. Mapping Knowledge: GIS as a Tool for Spatial Modeling of Patterns of Warangal Cotton Seed Popularity and Farmer Decision-Making

Author:
Andrew Flachs; Glenn Davis Stone; Christopher Shaffer
Source:
Human ecology 2017 v.45 no.2 pp. 143-159
ISSN:
0300-7839
Subject:
cotton; cottonseed; crop yield; crops; decision making; farmers; geographic information systems; landscapes; learning; loci; models; rice; seeds; transgenic plants; villages; India
Abstract:
... In the Warangal district of Telangana, India, poor farmer knowledge, rapid seed turnover, and farmer conformist bias have resulted in faddish spikes in GM cotton seed popularity. We analyze space as a variable in 2715 seed choices by 136 farmers in two villages between 2004 and 2014, allowing us to model a decade of changes in farmers’ social learning across the village landscape. GIS analysis in ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10745-016-9885-y

21. People’s perception on impacts of hydro-power projects in Bhagirathi river valley, India

Author:
G. C. S. Negi; Disha Punetha
Source:
Environmental monitoring and assessment 2017 v.189 no.4 pp. 138
ISSN:
0167-6369
Subject:
aesthetics; carbon; decision making; electric power; energy; fauna; flora; human settlements; people; planning; private enterprises; rivers; sand; socioeconomics; stream channels; surveys; tourism; water pollution; water power; Himalayan region; India
Abstract:
... The people’s perception on environmental and socio-economic impacts due to three hydro-electric projects (HEPs; commissioned and under construction) were studied in the north-west Indian Himalaya. Surveys among 140 project-affected people (PAPs) using a checklist of impacts indicate that among the negative impacts, decrease in flora/fauna, agriculture, flow of river, aesthetic beauty; and increase ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10661-017-5820-y

22. Prioritization of watershed through morphometric parameters: a PCA-based approach

Author:
Sarita Gajbhiye Meshram; S. K. Sharma
Source:
Applied water science 2017 v.7 no.3 pp. 1505-1519
ISSN:
2190-5487
Subject:
data collection; decision making; geographic information systems; morphometry; principal component analysis; prioritization; remote sensing; rivers; subwatersheds; India
Abstract:
... Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques have become very important these days as they aid planners and decision makers to make effective and correct decisions and designs. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) involves a mathematical procedure that transforms a number of (possibly) correlated variables into a (smaller) number of uncorrelated variables. It reduces the d ...
DOI:
10.1007/s13201-015-0332-9

23. Probabilistic assessment of phenophase-wise agricultural drought risk under different sowing windows: a case study with rainfed soybean

Author:
Rajkumar Dhakar; M. A. Sarath Chandran; Shivani Nagar; V. Visha Kumari
Source:
Environmental monitoring and assessment 2017 v.189 no.12 pp. 645
ISSN:
0167-6369
Subject:
risk; correlation; crop production; evapotranspiration; flowering; germination; sowing; soybeans; drought; case studies; vegetation; decision making; India
Abstract:
... A new methodology for crop-growth stage-specific assessment of agricultural drought risk under a variable sowing window is proposed for the soybean crop. It encompasses three drought indices, which include Crop-Specific Drought Index (CSDI), Vegetation Condition Index (VCI), and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). The unique features of crop-growth stage-specific nature and ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10661-017-6371-y

24. Projection of climate change-induced sea-level rise for the coasts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, India using SimCLIM: a first step towards planning adaptation policies

Author:
A. Ramachandran; A. Saleem Khan; K. Palanivelu; R. Prasannavenkatesh; N. Jayanthi
Source:
Journal of coastal conservation 2017 v.21 no.6 pp. 731-742
ISSN:
1400-0350
Subject:
climate; climate models; coasts; computer software; decision making; developing countries; issues and policy; planning; sea level; India
Abstract:
... Climate change-induced sea-level rise (SLR) is one of the greatest challenges of the low-lying coastal regions of the world. Adaptation to the rising sea level is considered the most appropriate response measure to face this global challenge. However, this requires a pragmatic approach that’s locally suitable. The first step would be projecting SLR locally under different scenarios and at differen ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11852-017-0532-6

25. Ranking of CMIP5-based global climate models for India using compromise programming

Author:
K. Srinivasa Raju; P. Sonali; D. Nagesh Kumar
Source:
Theoretical and applied climatology 2017 v.128 no.3-4 pp. 563-574
ISSN:
0177-798X
Subject:
climate models; correlation; decision making; entropy; temperature; India
Abstract:
... Thirty-six Coupled Model Intercomparison Project-5-based global climate models (GCMs) are explored to evaluate the performance of maximum (T ₘₐₓ) and minimum (T ₘᵢₙ) temperature simulations for India covering 40 grid points. Three performance indicators used for evaluating GCMs are correlation coefficient (CC), normalised root mean square error (NRMSE) and skill score (SS). Entropy method is appli ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00704-015-1721-6

26. Ranking of Storm Water Harvesting Sites Using Heuristic and Non-Heuristic Weighing Approaches

Author:
Shray Pathak; Chandra Shekhar Prasad Ojha; Chris Zevenbergen; Rahul Dev Garg
Source:
Water 2017 v.9 no.9 pp. -
ISSN:
2073-4441
Subject:
climate change; decision making; entropy; expert opinion; freshwater; geographic information systems; land use change; principal component analysis; screening; socioeconomics; stormwater; urban areas; water harvesting; water resources; watersheds; Australia; India
Abstract:
... Conservation of water is essential as climate change coupled with land use changes influence the distribution of water availability. Stormwater harvesting (SWH) is a widely used conservation measure, which reduces pressure on fresh water resources. However, determining the availability of stormwater and identifying the suitable sites for SWH require consideration of various socio-economic and tech ...
DOI:
10.3390/w9090710

27. Reprint of "What will it take to accelerate improvements in nutrition outcomes in Odisha? Learning from the past"

Author:
Neha Kohli; Rasmi Avula; Mara van den Bold; Elisabeth Becker; Nicholas Nisbett; Lawrence Haddad; Purnima Menon
Source:
Global food security 2017 v.13 pp. 38-48
ISSN:
2211-9124
Subject:
decision making; distress; education; food security; funding; girls; interviews; issues and policy; leadership; learning; livelihood; marriage; nutrition; nutritional intervention; sanitation; social class; women
Abstract:
... The Indian state of Odisha has made significant strides to address health and nutrition in the last 25 years. We used public data, policy and program documents, published literature, and interviews with program and policy decision-makers, development partners, civil society members (n=29) and community members (n=45) to analyze these changes. Factors that contributed to scale up of health and nutr ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.gfs.2017.04.002

28. Status differences in collective action and forest benefits: evidence from joint forest management in India

Author:
Promita Mukherjee; Biswajit Ray; Rabindra N. Bhattacharya
Source:
Environment, development and sustainability 2017 v.19 no.5 pp. 1831-1854
ISSN:
1387-585X
Subject:
collaborative management; collective action; decision making; forest management; forest resources; forests; households; India
Abstract:
... Does status matter in community-based forest management? If so, are the high-status households more benefited than the low-status households? What drives status differences, if any, in the appropriation of forest resources? To address these questions, we draw on a theory of status and resource use that defines one’s status as one’s relative position in a group on the basis of power, prestige, hono ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10668-016-9830-7

29. Sustainable supply chain management practices in Indian automotive industry: A multi-stakeholder view

Author:
Deepak Mathivathanan; Devika Kannan; A. Noorul Haq
Source:
Resources, Conservation & Recycling 2017 pp. -
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
business enterprises; decision making; employment; laboratory techniques; laws and regulations; learning; managers; manufacturing; models; probability; questionnaires; social impact; society; socioeconomic status; stakeholders; supply chain; surveys; India
Abstract:
... As one of the largest manufacturing sectors, the automotive industry has a deep impact on the society and environment. Automotive products provide mobility to millions and create jobs, but also threaten the environment. Consumer pressure, government regulations, and stakeholder demands for a competitive edge have forced the automotive industry to consider their environmental and social impacts in ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.01.003

30. The nexus between food price inflation and monsoon rainfall in India: exploring through comparative data mining models

Author:
Subrata Kumar Mitra; Manojit Chattopadhyay
Source:
Climate and development 2017 v.9 no.7 pp. 584-592
ISSN:
1756-5537
Subject:
decision making; discriminant analysis; food prices; inflation; models; monsoon season; prediction; rain; regression analysis; India
Abstract:
... In the paper we analysed the impact on food inflation of monsoon rainfall using different data mining tools, namely: lda (Linear Discriminant Analysis), qda (Quadratic Discriminant Analysis), lr (logistic regression), rpart (Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees), knn (k-Nearest Neighbors Network), and formulated the models in such a way that food inflation at the end of the financial year c ...
DOI:
10.1080/17565529.2016.1174662

31. Trend of gillnet fishery along the Maharashtra coast of India: A case study

Author:
Manoharmayum Shaya Devi; Y. Gladston; K.A. Martin Xavier; Satish Kamat; S.K. Chakraborty; Latha Shenoy
Source:
Regional studies in marine science 2017 v.10 pp. 32-37
ISSN:
2352-4855
Subject:
Bramidae; case studies; catch composition; coasts; decision making; fisheries; fuels; gillnets; handicrafts; juveniles; lobsters; marine fish; marine science; mechanization; prices; questionnaires; species diversity; sustainable development; India
Abstract:
... In the context of increasing fuel prices in fishing operations, low impact fuel efficient (LIFE) fishing practices such as gillnetting assume significance globally for sustainable development of fisheries. Satpati, which is well known for the dominance of mechanised gillnet fishing is an important marine fishing zone of Maharashtra along the north west coast of India. Considering the relevance of ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.rsma.2017.01.001

32. Two faces of shrimp aquaculture: commonising vs. decommonising effects of a wicked driver

Author:
Eranga K. Galappaththi; Prateep K. Nayak
Source:
Maritime studies 2017 v.16 no.1 pp. 12
ISSN:
2212-9790
Subject:
collective action; decision making; ecological imbalance; fisheries; focus groups; interviews; issues and policy; politics; privatization; shrimp culture; Bay of Bengal; India; Sri Lanka
Abstract:
... Much coastal fisheries literature supports the idea that shrimp aquaculture has the potential to cause considerable social and environmental destruction. The aim of the paper is to highlight the two faces of shrimp aquaculture as a wicked driver, emphasizing its potential role in activating systematic conversion of lagoon –based fisheries commons to non-commons and vice versa. We use the cases of ...
DOI:
10.1186/s40152-017-0066-4

33. Vegetation ecology and carbon sequestration potential of shrubs in tropics of Chhattisgarh, India

Author:
Manoj Kumar Jhariya
Source:
Environmental monitoring and assessment 2017 v.189 no.10 pp. 518
ISSN:
0167-6369
Subject:
cluster analysis; carbon; carbon sequestration; fire regime; land use; decision making; correlation; Ziziphus; tropics; cadmium; forest ecosystems; forest fires; screening; humans; tropical forests; principal component analysis; sustainable forestry; species diversity; biomass production; shrubs; plant anatomy; stand basal area; India
Abstract:
... Tropical forests are well known to have great species diversity and contribute substantial share in terrestrial carbon (C) stocks worldwide. Shrubs are long-neglected life form in the forest ecosystem, playing many roles in the forest and human life. Shrub has great impact on vegetation attributes which in turn modify the C storage and capture. In the present investigation, an attempt has been mad ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10661-017-6246-2

34. Virtual carbon and water flows embodied in international trade: a review on consumption-based analysis

Author:
Xia Liu; Jiří Jaromír Klemeš; Petar Sabev Varbanov; Lidija Čuček; Yu Qian
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2017 v.146 pp. 20-28
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
European Union; carbon; carbon dioxide; decision making; developing countries; emissions factor; exports; greenhouse gas emissions; greenhouse gases; imports; industry; international trade; issues and policy; markets; monitoring; virtual water; water flow; Brazil; China; India; United States
Abstract:
... In the globalised world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and water consumption are becoming increasingly important indicators for policy and decision making. Development of footprint assessment techniques over the last decade has provided a set of tools for monitoring CO2 emissions and water flows in the world. An overview of the virtual CO2 emissions and virtual water flow trends in the internation ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.129

35. Vulnerability of agro-ecological zones in India under the earth system climate model scenarios

Author:
Roopam Shukla; Anusheema Chakraborty; P. K. Joshi
Source:
Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change 2017 v.22 no.3 pp. 399-425
ISSN:
1381-2386
Subject:
adaptive management; agroecological zones; climate change; decision making; highlands; issues and policy; models; plateaus; risk; semiarid zones; socioeconomics; India
Abstract:
... India being a developing economy dependent on climate-sensitive sector like agriculture is highly vulnerable to impacts of global climate change. Vulnerability to climate change, however, differs spatially within the country owing to regional differences in exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. The study uses the Hadley Centre Global Environment Model version 2-Earth System (HadGEM-ES) cli ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11027-015-9677-5

36. What Is the Role of Agro-Met Information Services in Farmer Decision-Making? Uptake and Decision-Making Context among Farmers within Three Case Study Villages in Maharashtra, India

Author:
Ingrid Nesheim; Line Barkved; Neha Bharti
Source:
Agriculture 2017 v.7 no.8 pp. -
ISSN:
2077-0472
Subject:
case studies; climate; decision making; farmers; information services; meteorology; villages; weather; India
Abstract:
... Scientific studies of climate and meteorology focusing on India show significant increase in the variability and frequency of extreme precipitation events. The increased variability of weather patterns places a huge constraint on farmer’s ability to make strategic agricultural practice decisions. In response, public and private agro-met information services disseminate agro-met information to farm ...
DOI:
10.3390/agriculture7080070

37. What will it take to accelerate improvements in nutrition outcomes in Odisha? Learning from the past

Author:
Neha Kohli; Rasmi Avula; Mara van den Bold; Elisabeth Becker; Nicholas Nisbett; Lawrence Haddad; Purnima Menon
Source:
Global food security 2017 v.12 pp. 38-48
ISSN:
2211-9124
Subject:
decision making; distress; education; food security; funding; girls; interviews; issues and policy; leadership; learning; livelihood; marriage; nutrition; nutritional intervention; sanitation; social class; women
Abstract:
... The Indian state of Odisha has made significant strides to address health and nutrition in the last 25 years. We used public data, policy and program documents, published literature, and interviews (n=75) with program and policy decision-makers, representatives from development partners, and civil society and community members to analyze these changes. Factors that contributed to scale up of healt ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.gfs.2017.01.007

38. Women’s empowerment in Indian agriculture: does market orientation of farming systems matter?

Author:
Soumya Gupta; Prabhu L. Pingali; Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Source:
Food security 2017 v.9 no.6 pp. 1447-1463
ISSN:
1876-4517
Subject:
adults; crops; decision making; educational status; electricity; farming systems; farms; households; income; irrigation; leadership; livestock; market orientation; markets; ownership; regression analysis; women; India
Abstract:
... This paper studies the relationship between the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and market orientation of farm production in India. This is the first time that the WEAI has been used in an Indian agricultural context and the first time that it is being associated with market orientation. We used data on 1920 adults from 960 households in the Chandrapur District of Maharashtra and c ...
DOI:
10.1007/s12571-017-0737-4

39. “Preemptive Participation” and Environmental Awareness Across Indian Water Quality Policy

Author:
Sya Buryn Kedzior
Source:
Journal of environment & development v.26 no.3 pp. 272-296
ISSN:
1552-5465
Subject:
citizen participation; decision making; environmental governance; industry; interviews; issues and policy; water quality; Ganges River; India
Abstract:
... Public participation in environmental decision making is promoted in the Global South as a core tenet of “good governance” associated with sustainability. This emphasis on participatory governance has produced significant attention to the importance of “environmental awareness” as a precondition of participation in environmental governance. This article analyzes the connected discourses surroundin ...
DOI:
10.1177/1070496517697768