TY  - BOOK
AU  - Punyatoya Patra
AU  - Roshani Devi
AU  - Gaurav Sikka
AU  - Sneh Gangwar
TI  - Perspectives in human geography
SN  - 9789388937825
U1  - 304.2 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Concept
KW  - Human geography
N2  - The text book entitled "Perspectives in Human Geography" is designed to cover the requirements of the various undergraduate level syllabuses of Human Geography in India in general and that of CBCS syllabus of University of Delhi in particular. The book is divided into five parts. The first part covers the concept, major themes of Human Geography and its contemporary relevance. The second part covers world cultural realms, and characteristics and global distribution of race, religion and language. The third part covers population growth, distribution, composition, migration and along with population theories. Part four focuses on settlement which covers distinction between rural and urban settlement, determinants of rural settlement, classification of urban settlement and world urbanization pattern. The fifth part focuses on population-resource region with the concepts of under population, over population, optimum population and carrying capacity of regions. This book provides many basic and other useful materials for optional subjects such as Population Geography, Cultural Geography, Urban Geography and Resource Geography. The book would be of an immense help to both students and teachers of Geography and other related social sciences.
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