Stress on natural resources has recently increased due to commercialization and the need to provide livelihoods for locals. Because they are such core parts of everyday life, ensuring sustainability in resource management is of paramount importance. Only by integrating the tools of spatial information science can an effective course for preserving and protecting natural resources be created. Spatial Information Science for Natural Resource Management is a pivotal reference source that explores coordinated approaches to sustainable development and management of natural resources to keep a balance of the environment, ecology, and human livelihood. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics including crop yield estimation, ecosystem services, and land information systems, this book covers interdisciplinary techniques in monitoring and managing natural resources. This publication is ideally designed for urban planners, environmentalists, policymakers, ecologists, researchers, academicians, students, and professionals in the fields of remote sensing, civil engineering, social science, computer science, and information technology.

Though, it is often believed that those economies which are strongly competitive are able to attract more FDI, but still the relationship between FDI inflows and its impact on competitiveness is an issue of enquiry. Foreign direct investment involves long term relationship reflecting a lasting interest and control of a resident entity in one economy in an enterprise resident in an economy other than that of the foreign direct investor. (World Investment Report, United Nations, 2002). On the other hand, competitiveness is a diverse concept as different economic agencies define competitiveness in different ways. The fundamental principle, which allows the distinction between notions of competitiveness of nations and competitiveness of enterprises, focuses on where the creation of economic value takes place. The economic value is only created within the context of an enterprise, whereas, a nation's environment hinders or supports this process through its policies. The present book is an attempt to provide an insight into impact of FDI on macroeconomic variables having a bearing on competitiveness in the context of Indian economy along with, in the context of Indian firms. Defining competitiveness differently in the context of economy and firms may help us in providing a more comprehensive assessment of impact of foreign direct investment on competitiveness of India.

Some women were worshipped. Some were feared. Some were turned into warnings.The Women Who Were Remembered Wrong revisits old stories of goddesses, queens, saints, witches, lovers, and warriors from the Caucasus, Anatolia, and the Silk Road. These are women who survived inside myth, folklore, scripture, empire, and village memory, but not always fairly.Through lyrical retellings, reflective commentary, and source notes, Shruti Mishra returns to women who were made smaller by history or trapped inside roles they did not choose: temptress, martyr, monster, saint, muse, wife, widow, witch. The book asks what changes when we stop accepting inherited stories as final truth and begin listening for the woman beneath the legend.Moving across regions shaped by migration, conquest, faith, trade, and memory, this collection is part folklore, part feminist reclamation, and part literary journey into the stories that taught generations what women were allowed to be.For readers drawn to mythology, women's history, forgotten legends, feminist retellings, and the hidden lives behind old tales, The Women Who Were Remembered Wrong is an invitation to look again.

Some feelings arrive before their names do. They settle into the body - a constriction in the chest when a familiar song plays in an unfamiliar city, the inexplicable grief of watching a door close on a room you will never enter again, the hunger that sharpens rather than diminishes when you are finally close to what you have wanted most.This collection begins with three words that dare to name what English cannot.Sehnsucht. German. The inconsolable longing in the human heart for a far, familiar, non-earthly land one can identify as one's home - a reaching toward something the heart recognises before the mind can catch up.Yugen. Japanese. The profound awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words - wonder arriving not as peace but as magnitude, as the strange intelligence of being undone.Hiraeth. Welsh. A deep, inborn yearning for a home, a feeling, a place, or a person that may be beyond this plane entirely. Not nostalgia, which is merely sentimental. Hiraeth is structural - a missing built into the architecture of the self.Three Names for Longing gathers sixty prose-poems written across different seasons of one life. They move through fragrance and seasons, desire and devotion, myth and memory, the body and the mind's long argument with it. There are two voices - a He and a She - whose exchanges are not transcriptions but portraits of what longing sounds like when it finally speaks aloud. There are poems built like love letters, like confessions, like questions asked too late and answered too soon.This is not a book about unrequited love. It is a book about the experience of feeling intensely - which is its own country, with its own weather, its own customs, and its own particular brand of beautiful difficulty.Written by an Indian woman living between worlds in Frankfurt, Germany, Three Names for Longing is the first collected edition of three companion manuscripts. It is a book for people who have loved beyond reason, waited beyond certainty, and still reached for language when silence would have been easier.For airport waiting rooms and insomniac 3AMs. For the commute home when the music suddenly makes sense. For everyone who has ever thought: I don't have a word for this and meant it as both a problem and a relief.Read it in any order. There is no wrong sequence for ache.

Strangers Tell The Oldest Stories is a travel-framed collection of forgotten and lesser-known folk tales from Eastern Europe, retold through the eyes of a solo woman traveller moving by bus, train, ferry, and foot through border cities, mountain towns, old ports, hostels, bookshops, bakeries, and borrowed rooms.In this book, folklore does not appear as something preserved behind glass. It arrives through conversation: a stranger on a ferry, a woman in a bookshop, someone at a hostel table while rain presses against the windows, a local voice near a statue by the sea.From the Carpathian forests to the coast of Montenegro, from Lithuanian farmhouses to Estonian islands, Slovak mountains, and Belarusian memories carried in exile, these stories bring back forest spirits, storm-makers, tricksters, river beings, cursed dancers, foolish bargains, faithful animals, lonely devils, and women waiting by the water.Part travel memoir, part folklore collection, and part meditation on memory, longing, exile, and belonging, Strangers Tell The Oldest Stories asks what survives when borders shift, languages fade, and people leave home.Perhaps the answer is simple: stories do.For readers who love myth, slow travel, Eastern Europe, atmospheric storytelling, and books that feel like being told a secret in a café on a rainy afternoon.

Stress on natural resources has recently increased due to commercialization and the need to provide livelihoods for locals. Because they are such core parts of everyday life, ensuring sustainability in resource management is of paramount importance. Only by integrating the tools of spatial information science can an effective course for preserving and protecting natural resources be created. Spatial Information Science for Natural Resource Management is a pivotal reference source that explores coordinated approaches to sustainable development and management of natural resources to keep a balance of the environment, ecology, and human livelihood. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics including crop yield estimation, ecosystem services, and land information systems, this book covers interdisciplinary techniques in monitoring and managing natural resources. This publication is ideally designed for urban planners, environmentalists, policymakers, ecologists, researchers, academicians, students, and professionals in the fields of remote sensing, civil engineering, social science, computer science, and information technology.

Though, it is often believed that those economies which are strongly competitive are able to attract more FDI, but still the relationship between FDI inflows and its impact on competitiveness is an issue of enquiry. Foreign direct investment involves long term relationship reflecting a lasting interest and control of a resident entity in one economy in an enterprise resident in an economy other than that of the foreign direct investor. (World Investment Report, United Nations, 2002). On the other hand, competitiveness is a diverse concept as different economic agencies define competitiveness in different ways. The fundamental principle, which allows the distinction between notions of competitiveness of nations and competitiveness of enterprises, focuses on where the creation of economic value takes place. The economic value is only created within the context of an enterprise, whereas, a nation's environment hinders or supports this process through its policies. The present book is an attempt to provide an insight into impact of FDI on macroeconomic variables having a bearing on competitiveness in the context of Indian economy along with, in the context of Indian firms. Defining competitiveness differently in the context of economy and firms may help us in providing a more comprehensive assessment of impact of foreign direct investment on competitiveness of India.

Some women were worshipped. Some were feared. Some were turned into warnings.The Women Who Were Remembered Wrong revisits old stories of goddesses, queens, saints, witches, lovers, and warriors from the Caucasus, Anatolia, and the Silk Road. These are women who survived inside myth, folklore, scripture, empire, and village memory, but not always fairly.Through lyrical retellings, reflective commentary, and source notes, Shruti Mishra returns to women who were made smaller by history or trapped inside roles they did not choose: temptress, martyr, monster, saint, muse, wife, widow, witch. The book asks what changes when we stop accepting inherited stories as final truth and begin listening for the woman beneath the legend.Moving across regions shaped by migration, conquest, faith, trade, and memory, this collection is part folklore, part feminist reclamation, and part literary journey into the stories that taught generations what women were allowed to be.For readers drawn to mythology, women's history, forgotten legends, feminist retellings, and the hidden lives behind old tales, The Women Who Were Remembered Wrong is an invitation to look again.

Some feelings arrive before their names do. They settle into the body - a constriction in the chest when a familiar song plays in an unfamiliar city, the inexplicable grief of watching a door close on a room you will never enter again, the hunger that sharpens rather than diminishes when you are finally close to what you have wanted most.This collection begins with three words that dare to name what English cannot.Sehnsucht. German. The inconsolable longing in the human heart for a far, familiar, non-earthly land one can identify as one's home - a reaching toward something the heart recognises before the mind can catch up.Yugen. Japanese. The profound awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words - wonder arriving not as peace but as magnitude, as the strange intelligence of being undone.Hiraeth. Welsh. A deep, inborn yearning for a home, a feeling, a place, or a person that may be beyond this plane entirely. Not nostalgia, which is merely sentimental. Hiraeth is structural - a missing built into the architecture of the self.Three Names for Longing gathers sixty prose-poems written across different seasons of one life. They move through fragrance and seasons, desire and devotion, myth and memory, the body and the mind's long argument with it. There are two voices - a He and a She - whose exchanges are not transcriptions but portraits of what longing sounds like when it finally speaks aloud. There are poems built like love letters, like confessions, like questions asked too late and answered too soon.This is not a book about unrequited love. It is a book about the experience of feeling intensely - which is its own country, with its own weather, its own customs, and its own particular brand of beautiful difficulty.Written by an Indian woman living between worlds in Frankfurt, Germany, Three Names for Longing is the first collected edition of three companion manuscripts. It is a book for people who have loved beyond reason, waited beyond certainty, and still reached for language when silence would have been easier.For airport waiting rooms and insomniac 3AMs. For the commute home when the music suddenly makes sense. For everyone who has ever thought: I don't have a word for this and meant it as both a problem and a relief.Read it in any order. There is no wrong sequence for ache.

Strangers Tell The Oldest Stories is a travel-framed collection of forgotten and lesser-known folk tales from Eastern Europe, retold through the eyes of a solo woman traveller moving by bus, train, ferry, and foot through border cities, mountain towns, old ports, hostels, bookshops, bakeries, and borrowed rooms.In this book, folklore does not appear as something preserved behind glass. It arrives through conversation: a stranger on a ferry, a woman in a bookshop, someone at a hostel table while rain presses against the windows, a local voice near a statue by the sea.From the Carpathian forests to the coast of Montenegro, from Lithuanian farmhouses to Estonian islands, Slovak mountains, and Belarusian memories carried in exile, these stories bring back forest spirits, storm-makers, tricksters, river beings, cursed dancers, foolish bargains, faithful animals, lonely devils, and women waiting by the water.Part travel memoir, part folklore collection, and part meditation on memory, longing, exile, and belonging, Strangers Tell The Oldest Stories asks what survives when borders shift, languages fade, and people leave home.Perhaps the answer is simple: stories do.For readers who love myth, slow travel, Eastern Europe, atmospheric storytelling, and books that feel like being told a secret in a café on a rainy afternoon.