Q.1) “The Heartland Theory is gaining importance once again.” Comment. (20 marks) Q.2) To what extent are the Rimland theory helpful in understanding the world political situation today? Express your opinion clearly. Q.3) Give a critical account of Losch’s theory of central places. (15 marks) Q.4) Isodapne in the Theory of Industrial Location. (10 marks) […]
Q.1) Write an explanatory note on geographical systems. (10 marks) Q.2) Discuss the applicability of Christaller’s Central Place Theory. (20 marks) Q.3) Write a note on “forward and backward linkages” in Perroux’s thesis of economic growth and regional development. (10 marks) Q.4) Critically examine the stages of Economic Growth Model propounded by Rostov. Illustrate your
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Q.1) Salient feature of watershed planning and its advantages and disadvantages. (20 marks) Q.2) Highlight the significance of environmental issues in Regional Planning. (15 marks) Q.3) “Development planning has a component of environmental cost.” Discuss. (15 marks) Q.4) Examine the role of small towns in the regional development process. (15 marks) Q.5) Examine the strategies
Q.1) What is a region? Discuss the types of regions and methods of regionalization (20 marks) Q.2) Critically examine the role of growth centres and growth poles in regional development process. (15 marks) Q.3) Discuss various strategies for correcting regional imbalances. (15 marks) Q.4) “Geographical traits lead to regional imbalances.” Examine. (15 marks) Q.5) Regionalism
Q.1) “Whittlesey’s agricultural regions are relevant even today.” Discuss. (10 marks) An area with similar functional attributes is as an agricultural region. The demarcation of agricultural region is also seriously constrained by the non-availability of reliable data on the various aspects of agricultural patterns. The first scientific attempt for the Whittlesey in his proper. The
Q.1) Examine the concept of sphere of urban influence and discuss the theoretical methods of delimitation of urban sphere of influence. (20 marks) Q.2) Discuss the functional classification of towns. (15 marks) Q.3) Future role of squatter settlements in Urban Housing. (10 marks) Q.4) Discuss the transformation of rural-urban fringe. (15 marks) Q.5) Enumerate the
Q.1) Explain the following terminologies in about 50 words each: (5 x 5 =25 marks) Humanistic geography The term humanistic geography was used for the first time by Yi-Fi- Tuan in 1976. The focus of humanistic geography is humans and their conditions. It gave central and active role to human awareness and human agency, human
Q.1) Explain the concept of Megalopolis and Exopolis with regard to the growth of cities indicating whether the two can and do overlap. (10 marks) Q.2) Social capital – ‘those voluntary means and processes developed within civil society which promote development for the collective whole’ – Thomas(1996). Elaborate (15 marks) Q.3) Discuss the environmental issues
Q.1) Critically examine the concept of optimum population. (10 marks) Q.2) Citing examples from Asia and Europe, comment upon the contexts within which pronatalist population policies are advanced. What could be the implications of these policies on women’s workforce participation? (15 marks) Q.3) Examine the changing pattern of world migration and the emerging migration issues.