scholarly journals Environmental problems of Manipur

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-140
Author(s):  
Arambam Sophia ◽  
Mayanglambam Sarda Devi
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Rapid Population Growth ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The People

The issue of environment versus human activity has become one of the most common global topics. Global warming, greenhouse effect, air pollution, land and water pollution are all results of human activity. Human behaviour lies at the root of both conservation and environmental damage. The rapid growth of population and economic development are some of the greatest threats to the environment through the expansion and intensification of agriculture, uncontrolled growth of urbanization and industrialization, and the destruction of natural habitats. The paper seeks to study the unique features of Manipur, a pristine land situated in the North-East corner of India which is noted for its rich biodiversity, abundance of medicinal plants with various healing properties and yet it is facing the threat of environmental degradation and pollution. It is mainly rapid population growth, unplanned urbanization in urban areas, lack of awareness about environmental issues, poverty and Jhuming cultivation practices in the hills that have led to environmental damage, with its concomitant effects on human development, for it is ultimately the people of the state who have to suffer the effects of environmental damage. The paper gives a broad picture of the abundant green resources and unique fauna of Manipur and the environmental problems that threaten its biodiversity.

scholarly journals Traditional Foods of Assam and its Commercialization

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 4009-4014
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Mustard Oil ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Traditional Foods ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Structure ◽  
Financial Aspect

All the people round the Globe have their local traditional food. The taste of the local traditional food differs according to one’s social and cultural structure. The source of ingredients of every local traditional food is the nature and they prepare them according to their tradition and custom. The North-East of India, Assam, is full of variety of castes and creeds. And every caste has their own traditional food and a special traditional way of preparation. But, the local people of Assam use only certain specific ingredients to prepare their traditional dishes, of which ‘Pork’, Pastes prepared from mustard-oil seeds, pickles prepared from various fruits are the main or can be taken into accounts. These traditional foods of Dibrugarh District are also sent for marketing. Study on the use, preparation and popularization of such traditional food is observed in five different villages and sub-urban areas of Dibrugarh District. The fact and data on preparation and conservation of the local traditional foods have been collected through conversation with the needs of the families, shop-keepers, and other such people related with the process. The financial aspect covered provides financial support; scientific process of preparation of the traditional food is also included in this course of study

scholarly journals Importance of the Indigenous Plant Knowledge: Study of Selected Plant Species Culturally Used by the Karbi Community of Karbi Anglong District, North-East India

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Kliret Terangpi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Plant Knowledge ◽  
North East India ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Indigenous Plant

The North-East region in India is recognized as a major hotspot of biodiversity with a vast range of flora and fauna. The region extends from the plain areas such as the Barak-Brahmaputra Valley of Assam to the mountainous regions of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. The population in the region is just as diverse as its biodiversity with people residing in plain areas as well as in the hilly and mountainous areas. The vast forest area and availability of forest resources provide food, medicine, and, to some extent, livelihood for the different Indigenous people residing in the region; and hence their dependency and relationship with forest resources are tight knitted. The Karbi tribe is an ethnic community residing in the Karbi Anglong district in Assam state of the NE region. Their knowledge of forest resources, familiarity with the intricacies associated with it, utilization of various plants is found in the natural habitats for everyday purposes along with owning small and micro-farms have made them quite adaptable to the hilly environment. In the past, the Karbis mainly resided in the mountainous and hilly areas; but to access better facilities, most of the people have migrated and settled in the plains. The era of connectivity and urbanization has affected the forest areas that have gradually led to the loss of plants in their wild natural habitat, some of which hold a significant cultural identity and religious beliefs. In the present day, the younger generation has shifted from old ties and traditions, which might have contributed to the loss of knowledge about plants used for various purposes and certain Indigenous practices.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS ON THE ENTROPIC MODEL OF THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL. CASE STUDY OF THE SMES IN THE NORTH EAST REGION

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxana Mironescu ◽  
Andreea Feraru ◽  
Ovidiu Turcu
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
East Region ◽  
The People ◽  
Effective Relationships ◽  
Intellectual Skills

The intellectual capital in its dynamic approach focusses on the development of the entropic model, which expresses the dynamic transformation of the theoretical intellectual capital in a concrete and useful intellectual capital. The aim of the present paper is to perform a detailed analysis of the intellectual capital inside the SMES of the North-Est region of the country. It also speaks about the influence of the main integrators of the intellectual capital, divided into three elements: the cognitive, the emotional and the spiritual capital, about how they are acting as a field of forces upon the basic components of the intellectual capital, such as knowledge, intelligence and values and how they determine the generation and development of the intellectual capital in the eastern analyzed SMEs. Both jobs and teams inside the analyzed SMEs are stimulating the development of the intellectual skills, which reduces the need for involving the external experts, by appealing only those specialists who could transform the tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge. The organizational communication provides the necessary information and contributes to the establishment of a fair climate and of the effective relationships between managers and employees, between work mates, and also with the people outside the organization.

The ghost bat in the Pilbara: 100 years on.

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 93 ◽  
Author(s):  
KN Armstrong ◽  
SD Anstee
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
New Records ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
The Third ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Preferred Habitat

This paper summarises the roost habitat and distribution of the ghost bat, Macroderma gigas (Dobson, 1880), in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, with particular emphasis on natural habitats. The preferred habitat of M. gigas in the Hamersley Ranges appears to be caves beneath bluffs of low rounded hills composed of Marra Mamba geology. Habitats were also found in the larger hills of Brockman Iron Formation in the Hamersley Range, and other formations beneath bluffs composed of Gorge Creek Group geology to the north east. Granite rockpiles are also used in the eastern Pilbara. A summary of Pilbara records from numerous sources is presented, including anecdotal accounts and other new records. This includes a newly discovered maternity site from the Hamersley Ranges, only the third reported from natural cave formations in the region. Threats to M. gigas in the region are highlighted and include disturbances associated with mining and entanglement in barbed wire fences.

Environmental Education and Its Effects on Environmental Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 182-199
Author(s):  
Joan Mwihaki Nyika ◽  
Fredrick M. Mwema
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The North ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Resource Degradation

Environmental education (EE) for sustainable development remains a valuable subject of contemporary society, which is characterized with environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, loss of biodiversity, and resource degradation. The delivery of EE is based on the North American Association for environmental education values of knowledge, dispositions, competencies, and responsible behavior towards the environment. EE is a transformative tool to learners since it prepares learners with skills, attitudes, knowledge, and values to resolve environmental problems. It promotes environmental activism and action-oriented resolution of environmental issues. The full benefits of EE are challenged by limited human capacity, questionable professionalism, limited resources, and poor transformation of knowledge to practice. These challenges however can be alleviated through community engagement in formulating EE programs, multidisciplinary engagements, and research on EE delivery and quality.

scholarly journals The participatory vernacular web and regional dialect grammar

English Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Michael Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Standard English ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Regional Dialect

English dialects demonstrate considerable variation in their pronominal systems (see for example Trudgill & Chambers, 1991 and Hernández, 2011). In England, pronouns in the north east of the country – the urban areas of Tyne and Wear and Teesside and the counties of Durham and Northumberland (hereafter NEE) – are often different from those found in Standard English (SE). The most extensive modern accounts of NEE pronouns are Beal (1993) and Beal, Burbano–Elizondo and Llamas (2012), but because they appear in chapters dealing with a wide range of morphosyntactic topics, the coverage is necessarily brief. This article is able to offer a more detailed overview of the morphology of NEE pronouns, based on a sizeable naturalistic corpus of vernacular writing.

The Galton Lecture 1970: The Obstetrician and Society

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (S3) ◽  
pp. 93-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dugald Baird
Keyword(s):  
Population Control ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Homogeneous Population ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Results Of Treatment ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
The People ◽  
Scientific Personnel

I am honoured to be asked to give the Galton Lecture and, as an obstetrician, I am particularly glad to give it in the context of this symposium devoted to biosocial aspects of fertility.By comparison with the frightening problems of population control on a world scale, the control of Britain's population should be easy but, unfortunately, it has not been tackled with the urgency it demands. In the North East of Scotland, however, considerable progress has been made. We have a natural human laboratory for the study of this problem and other aspects of human reproduction. It has the advantage of relative isolation, homogeneous population, convenient size (half a million) and availability of scientific personnel from Research Institutes, University and National Health Service. In addition, very good relations exist between these bodies and the general public. Continuity of medical care facilitates long-term study of patients, assessment of needs and results of treatment. The people have become knowledgeable and co-operative.

The Monk's Kop Ossuary

1967 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Dating Methods ◽  
Skeletal Material ◽  
Physical Type ◽  
Palm Leaf

This paper describes the excavation of a cave used for funerary purposes in the Mtoroshanga district of Rhodesia. The cave was found to contain a large quantity of skeletal material and pottery, together with the personal ornaments of the persons interred there. The physical type represented is similar to that of the modern Bantu-speaking peoples of Southern Africa. Bodies had been placed in the cave surrounded by pottery—although pottery, unlike the skeletal material, which was ubiquitous, was mainly placed towards the entrance of the cave. Quantities of palm-leaf and bark-cloth matting used for wrapping round the bodies of the persons interred were found. Conus shell end-whorls and glass beads indicate trade links with the outside world.There are two superimposed funerary layers in the cave, both belonging to the same culture, but at different stages of its development. The earlier layer has been dated by radicarbon dating methods to approximately the late 13th or early 14th century A.D. Prior to its use for funerary purposes, the cave had been briefly occupied for other purposes by people of the same culture.The ceramics of the site indicate that it belongs to a culture newly recognized in Rhodesia with a fairly wide distribution in the north-east of the country. Cultural affinities lie with Zambia and Malawi, rather than with the contemporary Zimbabwe culture, whose expansion, indeed, probably put an end to the occupation of the Mtoroshanga area by the people of the ossuary.

Bishop Blomfield and Church Extension in London

1953 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215
Author(s):  
P. J. Welch
Keyword(s):  
Parish Church ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The People

When the Wellington government translated Blomfield from Chester to London in 1828, he came to a diocese where pastoral superintendence had long ceased to bear any relation to the needs of the people. As early as 1811, 75,624 people lived in St. Marylebone, but the parish church had room for only 900 of them. Twenty years later, Baptist Noel computed that, owing to the deficiency of church accommodation, about one-third of the million and a half of the inhabitants of London were living ‘without any Christian instruction and without any public acknowledgement of God’. In 1834, in the north and north-east of London, there were only ten parishes for 353,460 people.

scholarly journals Bahilah di Hulu Sungai Utara: Penebus Dosa Ala Urang Amuntai

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Siti Muna Hayati ◽  
Husnul Khitam
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study is aimed at examining the Bahilah custom facing a shift in practice and how the views of North Hulu Sungai society towards the Bahilah custom. This study belongs to descriptive qualitative research using observation and interview methods. The study reveals that some modern societies and living in urban areas consider the bahilah custom not based from the Nash (Qur’anic text) and violate the rules in religion. Therefore, they ignore it. Meanwhile, some of the traditionalist societies practicing Syafii School regard the Bahilah custom as something that is forbidden. Despite of the existing debate, the people majority of Amuntai City in the North Hulu Sungai Regency who in fact follow the Shafi'i school have always carried it out until now when their relatives died. In fact, the problems arising later are not about the validity of the argument, but with regard to the amount of costs that must be incurred because of the shifting essence and the Bahilah practice that has always been carried out.

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