Burdwan University PG 2nd SEM Batch
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Course
Burdwan University PG 2nd SEM Batch
Study materials
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MSGG 201: RECENT TRENDS IN GEOGRAPHY
Unit 1
1. Major philosophical paradigms: Encyclopaedism, Positivism and Post-PositivismRead in App →2. Critiques of Positivism: Behaviouralism and RadicalismRead in App →3. Geography of post 1960s. Humanistic, Welfare and GenderRead in App →4. Critical Social Theory; Development of Critical Geography; Discourse and DeconstructionRead in App →Unit 2
5. Critical Discourses: Structuralism to Post-StructuralismRead in App →6. Post Modernism: Essential considerations and characteristics; Post Modernism-Idea, Epoch and StyleRead in App →7. Post Modern perspectives in Space: Homogenization, Plurality and Complexity; Marginality to Diasporic identityRead in App →8. Geography in 21st Century: Hybrid GeographyRead in App →MSGG 202: CLIMATOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY
Unit 1
1. Humidity, Atmospheric Stability, Instability; VorticesRead in App →2. Atmospheric Circulation: Tricellular Model, Jet Stream, ENSO, CyclonesRead in App →3. Monsoon: Recent Theories of its Origin; Classical, Flohn, Jet Stream and Koteswaram, Recent Trends of Monsoon in Indian SubcontinentRead in App →4. Climate Change and its Global Impact: Physical, Economic and Social; Adaptation and Mitigation Measures of Climate ChangeRead in App →Unit 2
5. Drainage Basin Hydrology: Relief, Surficial, Linear and Shape Aspects, Basin Hydrological Cycle, Measures of Estimating Runoff: Rational Method and Soil Conservation Service Curve Number MethodRead in App →6. Channel Geometry and Related Parameters, Open Channel Flow: Laminar, Turbulent, Super-critical Sub-critical, Flow Continuity & Bernoulli’s PrincipleRead in App →7. Occurrence & Movement of Groundwater, Velocity, Viscosity, Hydraulic Conductivity and Darcy’s LawRead in App →8. Management of Water Resources: Watershed Management, Rainwater HarvestingRead in App →MSGG 203: REGION & REGIONAL PLANNING
Unit 1
1. Concept of Region and Regional Planning; Approaches to Regional Planning – Technocentric, Ecocentric and Social; Regional HierarchyRead in App →2. Techniques for Delineation of Regions: Formal, Functional and Planning RegionRead in App →3. Indicators of Economic Development in Regional PlanningRead in App →4. Theories of Regional Development: F. Perroux, G. Myrdal, A. R. Hirschman, J. Friedman, R. P. Mishra’s Growth FociRead in App →Unit 2
5. New Economic Policy and Regional Development in IndiaRead in App →6. Regional Inequality, Disparity and Diversity in IndiaRead in App →7. Special Economic Zones in India: Perspectives of DevelopmentRead in App →8. Problems and Strategies for Development of Darjiling and Sundarban RegionRead in App →MSGG 204: POPULATION & SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY
Unit 1
1. Theories of Population Growth: Malthusian, Marxian, Neo-Malthusian and BiologicalRead in App →2. Transnational Migration: Diaspora and Identity CrisisRead in App →3. Problems of Population Growth: Social and Ecological ImpactRead in App →4. Population Policy Response to Demographic Transition: Developed and Developing Countries - Scandinavian and South East Asian NationsRead in App →Unit 2
5. Contemporary Problems of Rural Settlements: Rural-Urban Migration; Land Use Changes; Land Acquisition and TransactionsRead in App →6. Theories of Origin of Towns: Gordon Childe & Lewis Mumford; Characteristics and Processes of Urbanization in Developed and Developing CountriesRead in App →7. Urban Systems: The Law of the Primate City and Rank-Size Rule; Central Place Theories: Christaller and LoschRead in App →8. Models of Urban Land Use: Burgess, Harris and Ullman, and Hoyt; Concepts of Megacities, Global Cities and Edge Cities; Peri-Urban Areas, Rural-Urban FringeRead in App →Practical
Class notes
Class noteRead in App →RS & GIS
Recorded Classes
DEMRead in App →Supervised & Unsupervised ClassificationRead in App →Contour MapRead in App →Change DetectionRead in App →Spectral Reflectance CurveRead in App →Thematic MapRead in App →Area Calculation from Supervised ClassificationRead in App →