Pradyumna P Karan

Datos Biográficos

ID109264
NOMBREPradyumna P Karan
NOMBRESPradyumna P
APELLIDOKaran
FIRMAKARAN P P
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Kentucky
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS56
TOTAL DE CITAS63
TOTAL COMO AUTOR56
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1953
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
ÍNDICE H4

  • Climate Change in Bangladesh

    Pradyumna P KaranARTICLEThe AAG Review of Books2015

    Harun Rashid and Bimal Paul. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. xviii and 234 pp., maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7391-8353-3); $84.99 electronic (ISBN 978-0-739

  • Japan in the 21st Century

    Pradyumna P Karan, Dick GilbreathBOOKJapan in the 21st century2005

    The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: the world’s second-largest economy, a source of fury and wonder, a power without arms. Looking inward, Japan sees old ways shaken and new ones developing at a hectic pace. Japan in the Twenty-first Century offers compelling insights into the cur…

  • Cotton Mather (1918–1999)

    Pradyumna P KaranARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2003Referencias: 19

    Cotton Mather, a name-sake and direct descendant of colonial New England's Cotton Mather, was a dominant figure in American geography during the second half of the twentieth century. When the expan

  • Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle

    Pradyumna P Karan, Paul Burkett et al.ARTICLEEconomic Geography2002

    Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART I: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA: IDEOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT VISIONS A Marxist Perspective on the Neoliberal Versus Structural-Institutionalist Debate Flying Geese and Greater China Approaches: The Limits of Regionalized 'Modernization' The Challenge and the Contradictions of Dependency Analysis The Use and Abuse of Japan as a Progressive Model PART II: JAPANESE CAPITALISM: DEVELOPMENT…

  • Himalaya

    Open AccessNanda R Shrestha, Nanda Shrestha et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review2000

  • Japanese Landscapes

    I G Simmons, Ian Simmons et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1999

  • The Japanese City

    Open AccessPiper Gaubatz, Pradyumna P Karan et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1998Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    In this collection an interdisciplinary group of international scholars seeks to understand and explain the process and characteristics shaping the modern Japanese city. With frequent comparisons to the American city, they consider such topics as urban landscapes, the quality of life in the suburbs, spatial mixing of social classes in the city, land use planning and control, environmental pollution, and images of the city in Japanese literature

  • Nepal

    Open AccessMary Hobley, Pradyumna P Karan et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development1997

  • Nepal

    Open AccessNigel J R Allan, Pradyumna P Karan et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1997Citada por: 2

  • Ecology and Equity

    Open AccessPradyumna P Karan, Madhav Gadgil et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1997Citada por: 3

  • Nepal

    Open AccessAntonia Hussey, Pradyumna P Karan et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1995Citada por: 1

  • Environmental Movements in India

    Open AccessPradyumna P KaranARTICLEGeographical Review1994Citada por: 7Referencias: 1

    DURING the past twenty years people in various regions of India have formed nonviolent action movements to protect their environment, their livelihood, and their ways of life. These environmental movements have emerged from the Himalayan regions of Uttar Pradesh to the tropical forests of Kerala and from Gujarat to Tripura in response to projects that threaten to dislocate people and to affect their basic human rights to land, water, and ecologic…

  • Chinese landscapes

    Open AccessPradyumna P KaranARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies1993Citada por: 3

  • Landlessness and Migration in Nepal

    Open AccessPradyumna P Karan, Nanda R ShresthaARTICLEGeographical Review1992Citada por: 10

  • The Himalayan Dilemma

    Open AccessPradyumna P Karan, Jack D Ives et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1991

  • Environment and development in Sikkim Himalaya

    Open AccessPradyumna P KaranARTICLEHuman Ecology1989

  • Population Characteristics of the Himalayan Region

    Open AccessPradyumna P KaranARTICLEMountain Research and Development1987

    The population of the Himalayan region has tripled between 1901 and 1981 (from 11 to 33 million) and the rate of increase accelerated after about 1951 (from 1.26 to 2.7 percent per annum). These generalized figures, however, conceal significant sub-regional differences. It is argued that aid and development programmes have so far paid insufficient attention to local socio-cultural institutions and environmental conditions, and especially to the s…

  • Development Issues in Sikkim and Bhutan

    Open AccessPradyumna P KaranARTICLEMountain Research and Development1987

    Pradyumna P. Karan, Development Issues in Sikkim and Bhutan, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 7, No. 3, Proceedings of the Mohonk Mountain Conference: The Himalaya-Ganges Problem (Aug., 1987), pp. 275-278

  • Environment and Development in Bhutan

    Pradyumna P KaranARTICLEGeografiska Annaler Series B…1987Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    The pattern of land use and population in Bhutan with special reference to land use and mountain hazards in the Tongsa and Mongar areas are discussed. Future development plans must take into consid

  • Sikkim Himalaya

    Open AccessDonald A Messerschmidt, Pradyumna P Karan et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development1986

  • Technological Hazards in the Third World

    Open AccessPradyumna P Karan, Wilford A Bladen et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1986

    Technological hazards are acute in the rapidly industrializing countries of the third world, where factories are concentrated in densely populated areas. Areas of technological hazards are delineated for India, and the catastrophe at Bhopal is the case study to analyze perceptual responses. TECHNOLOGICAL development has become a major contemporary issue, viewed by some persons as the source of hope for mankind. Developing countries particularly c…

  • Environmental Stress in the Himalaya

    Open AccessPradyumna P Karan, Shigeru IijimaARTICLEGeographical Review1985Citada por: 6

  • Tourism and Environment in the Mount Everest Region

    Open AccessPradyumna P Karan, Cotton MatherARTICLEGeographical Review1985Citada por: 15

  • Landscape, Religion and Folk Art in Mithila

    Pradyumna P KaranARTICLEJournal of Cultural Geography1984

    Folk art portrays aspects of cultural geography that have been frequently ignored. Important aspects of the cultural geography of Mithila arc illustrated through folk paintings and songs. By understanding the symbolism in folk art, cultural geographers can discover fresh meanings in landscapes and culture, thus gaining a deeper knowledge of the aspirations and behavior of a specific group

  • The Retreat of the Elephants

    Pradyumna P Karan

    "The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China." History: Reviews of New Books, 33(1), p. 34