Extensive geographic areas of the world show a long-term atmospheric moisture deficit. Desertification Rajasthan is concurrent with strengthened weather extremality and mean annual air temperature (MAAT) rise over western part Indian subcontinent. The present landscape aridification due to precipitation decrease reinforced windiness generates surface-cover dryness, aeolian erosion mass sediment...

Ground water and surface water create a range of problems in lignite mining utilizing surface mining methods. In order to create a safe and economic mining environment, it is essential to carry out mining after dewatering the rock mass surrounding the lignite mines by advance dewatering techniques. This paper briefly describes the ground water regimes including pressure gradients associated wit...

The thermal characteristics of thar and their alpine habitat (including expanses of bare rock) were determined as a function of time throughout the night, by measurements from imagery acquired with a thermal video camera. Measurements were also made on thar in a farm environment, to determine the radiant temperature difference between their considerably hotter heads and cooler bodies. Thermal i...

Abstract The paper attempts to understand the relation between pastoral cultures and irrigation-based intensive farming regimes promoted by modern development represented Indira Gandhi Canal (IGNP) in western Rajasthan. Participant observation practice engagement with communities over past three decades give an opportunity reflect on epistemic rationality that constitutes discourse of developme...

The Himalayan thar (Hemitragus jemlahicus Smith) is an introduced ungulate pest of the alpine zone in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Considerable money is spent attempting to mitigate their effects on indigenous flora (Tustin, 1990). Current management focuses on maintaining thar densities below specified densities by a combination of recreational, commercial, and government-funded hunting (Depar...

The deserts of the world are hottest places, very less rainfall, almost clear skies throughout the year. These deserts receive highest direct normal irradiance which is most suitable for concentrating solar power plants. With the technological developments and their innovations in concentrating solar power, thermal storage and hybridization/ back up, the sunniest countries expects that CSP shou...

Commiphora wightii is an endangered, endemic species found in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India and adjoining areas of Pakistan. The populations of this plant are rapidly dwindling due to overexploitation for their medicinally important resin. Analysis of nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer of rDNAs revealed low genetic diversity ( = 0.03905; w = 0.05418) and high popula...