Abstract: India’s neo-liberal economies have given impetus to employment of educated urban women in highly technical and well-paid new generation service sectors. However, rather than providing emancipatory spaces for women to reinvent their identities, these sectors actively participate in the (re)constitution of traditional gender roles.
The author is Assistant Professor, Centre for Women's Studies, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal.
Monitoring from space, aerial and in situ platforms in coastal regions will help develop models for interactions between ecological and anthropogenic processes, helping sustainable management of coast...
The Indian coasts hold diverse geomorphological features—mudflats, rocky shores, cliffs, sandy beaches and deltaic reaches that shelter unique ecosystems. However, significant sections of the coastlin...
Integrated Flood Warning System (IFLOWS) is an integrated GIS-based decision support system developed for Chennai and Mumbai that provides flood inundation scenarios and helps state governments to put...
The Indian coastline sustains unique habitats that are subjected to increasing anthropogenic stressors. The National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), engaged in addressing coastal concerns over thr...