identifying the change trends in forms of land surface is one of the main topics in geomorphic system. in this view, we try to assess the stability level of geo systems, boundary changes, instability and prediction of surface forms and processes response. this paper tries to conduct a comparative analysis on the geomorphic equilibrium paradigms, critical thresholds, environmental and natural ha...

BACKGROUND Geographic Information Systems (GIS) describe the topography and chronology of events in a defined vector space. GIS may also be used for an integrated analysis of environmental and road-related risk factors for traffic accidents. METHODS In a retrospective study, various features of 165 road crashes were linked to a GIS-generated digital map of an area close to a national highway ...

Rupkatha Journal in collaboration with Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile and Doon University, India has published this special issue on the theme “Across Cultures: Ibero-America India”. The volume is edited by faculty from along a team of experts Journal. This titled India” intends to shed light trans-axial South-South history that implicates academic, cultural, intellectual, commercial pol...

one of the ways to be informed on the extent of activities in various industries is to measure the rate of nominal protection. this paper tries to calculate the nominal and effective protection in order to examine the exchange rate unification impacts on the protection of pulp and paper industries with the aim of performing the exchange rate unification policy. therefore, nominal protection rat...

The most favorable locations for wind farm were determined based on environmental landuse factors, wind resources and the layout of the electrical grid lines. In the study landuse map was prepared and updated by using Survey of India topographic sheet and ASTER satellite imagery in open source Quantum GIS & GRASS GIS software environment. Wind Power Density Layer was digitized by using Indian w...

The planning process of the Indian government has undergone many changes since its launch in 1951. Decentralised local level planning is currently accepted as the national planning strat egy. Towards this end, the Constitution (73 rd and 74 th Amendments, 1992 & 1993) has been amended to empower the State Governments to form the Institutions of Local self -Governance (ILG). The mandates of such...