Quantitative Geographers
India is set to embark on a new chapter in its Polar exploration journey with the construction of Maitri II. The Indian government plans to establish a new research station near the existing Maitri ba...
The Deep Ocean Mission (DOM), approved by the Government of India in 2021 under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), represents a strategic step in realizing Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14:...
China recently announced restrictions on the export of seven rare earth elements (REEs), soon after US President Donald Trump decided to impose tariffs. As the world's dominant supplier—responsible fo...
This section brings to lights a few of the prominent figures that gave rise to what we know as the quantitative revolution in geography. It is with their path breaking work that we today see geography...
Though there are some limitations of composite indices, they are an enabling tool for geographical regionalisation, a tool that is also becoming increasingly popular with policy makers. Development in...
This section brings to lights a few of the prominent figures that gave rise to what we know as the quantitative revolution in geography. It is with their path breaking work that we today see geography in a new perspective—one that defines in numbers the various spatial phenomenon.
Though there are some limitations of composite indices, they are an enabling tool for geographical regionalisation, a tool that is also becoming increasingly popular with policy makers. Development indices worked out using the human development index (HDI) and principal component analysis (PCA) have been compared in this article.