Q.1) Explain the concept of social capital in relation to India. (10 marks) Q.2) Examine the patterns of rural settlements in the western India and North-eastern India. (15 marks) Q.3) Discuss the major environmental issues in the rural India at different geographic locales with examples. (20 marks) Q.4) Examine the India’s performance related to food […]
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Q.1) Explain the relationship between net reproductive rate (NRR) and true replacement level of population. (10 marks) Q.2) What do you mean by ‘climate migrants’? Suggest appropriate policies and programmes for their resettlement. (15 marks) Q.3) Assess the challenges for countries with the largest shares of aged populations. (15 marks) Q.4) Examine the population theories.
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Q.1) There is a trend of ageing of the world population and population shrink. Examine. (10 marks) Reference – https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2019_10KeyFindings.pdf Q.2) Discuss the factors that affect the distribution of the world population. (15 marks) Q.3) Discuss the major causes and consequences of migration with reference to developed and developing countries. (20 marks) Q.4) The world
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Q.1) Problems faced by industries which developed due to inertia. (10 marks) Q.2) “Linkages between resource-endowed regions and resource-utilizing regions determine the pattern of international trade.” Elaborate with suitable examples. (20 marks) Q.3) Analyze the causes for changes in the pattern of world trade. (15 marks) Q.4) Developed economies decided to go back to their
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Q.1) Provide a geographical account of global production and distribution of food. (15 marks) Q.2) Famine is a social phenomenon rooted in institutional and political economic arrangements, which determine access to food by different classes and strata.” Comment. (20 marks) Q.3) Give an account of the state of food security and nutrition in the world.
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Q.1) Countries most affected in case of shut down of Nuclear power. (10 marks) Q.2) Mention the agriculture regions as classified by Whittlesey and discuss their relevance. (15 marks) Q.3) Critically analyse the theory of “Limits to Growth”. (20 marks) Q.4) Discuss the relationship between agricultural inputs and agricultural productivity. (15 marks)
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Q.1) Explain the term resource management. Discuss its relevance in the context of global resource scarcity and the future of mankind. (10 marks) Q.2) Discuss the problems and prospects of the world economic growth in the present world order. (15 marks) Q.3) GDP as a measure of economic development has its own merits and demerits.
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Q.1) “Cultural regions are the most suited units to study the diversity of an area”. Comment. (10 marks) Q.2) “Indo-Gangetic hearth is considered to be one of the world’s richest cultural realms.” Examine. (15 marks) Q.3) “The traditional cultural identities are at loss with the growth of global connectivity.” Explain. (10 marks) Q.4) HDI has
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Q.1) Comment upon the contributions of D M Smith in outlining ‘welfare’ as a key focus in geographies of social well-being. (15 marks) Q.2) Provide a brief outline of ideas related to “sense of place” as propounded by Yi-Fu Tuan and Relph in humanistic geography that emerged in the 1970s. (15 marks) Q.3) Elaborate upon
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Q.1) What is understood by quantification in Geography? Discuss the significance of quantification in modern geographical studies with examples. (20 marks) Q.2) ‘Quantitative Revolution and model building provided an empirical basis for geographical research’ – Elaborate. (15 marks) Q.3) State the concept of locational analysis. And enumerate the criticism against it. (15 marks) Q.4) Why
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