Resource Geography of Goa - Hardcover

Geography has become an extremely varied, versatile and high empirical discipline, and its area of study has grown a great deal since its inception. Harvey (1969) opines that geography is concerned with the description and explanation of the areal differentiation on the earth's surface. Growing human population is responsible for increasing demand for resources. The available resources are scarce in nature, on the one hand, and the population is growing rapidly on the other. Hence, it is the need of the hour to adopt the optimum utilization concept for effective conservation and management of resources. Resource Geography of Goa has been taught at under graduate level prescribed by Goa University. The textbook will provide relevant information to the students about Goa mainly consists of History, administrative divisions, physical resources, economic, demographic and settlement characteristics of Goa etc. The content has been supported with illustration, graphs tables etc.