2017-11-18T18:54:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
The most common sort among the calculations of population density is as defined by the number of persons per square kilometre. Calculations of population density depict the concentration of population over certain spatial units, and the Census of India uses number of persons per square kilometre as its principle method [...]
2017-11-01T06:53:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
The terms desertification refers to degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. It does not imply loss of land to desert or through sand-dune movement. […]
2017-10-17T00:08:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Why landslide mitigation is important:- […]
2017-10-17T00:00:33+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Society|
Population is a more serious issue than generally construed. The managing of populations can become a serious inflection point as can be seen building up in the recent Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Frequently, discrimination against communities have been placed in religious and ethnic terms, which can be site-specific. [...]
2017-10-16T23:58:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Society|
Population is a more serious issue than generally construed. The managing of populations can become a serious inflection point as can be seen building up in the recent Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Frequently, discrimination against communities have been placed in religious and ethnic terms, which can be site-specific. However, Saskia [...]
2017-10-02T16:30:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Geography|
Measurements of poverty indicators are usually highly controversial, and many obstacles may arise over providing an exact and objective estimate of people living in extreme poverty. Many nations and organizations working in this regard such as the World Bank and the United Nations (UN) have different approaches in qualifying and [...]
2017-09-22T06:10:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
How data can heal our oceans […]
2017-09-18T10:41:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
There have been various schools of thought in the history of geographical thought, and geographical determinism is one such school of thought that deals with the interaction between man and nature. Geographical determinism began with the major initial source of geographical explanation that based its theoretical positions on the notion [...]
2017-08-23T15:14:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
The most saline locations on Earth contain salt, or sodium chloride, and also other minerals and contain these in much greater quantities than the ocean. The following are the locations in the world with the greatest concentration of salt, with salinity levels that in many cases are inimical for life [...]
2017-08-14T13:24:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Geography|
Upcoming geological periods With climate change ruling the environment discourse, the sudden warming of the Earth in contemporary times prompted an official expert group to present a recommendation to the International Geological Congress to declare the geological period beginning since 1950 as the Anthropocene epoch. Since 2009, the Working Group [...]
