Contouring Human Development

Methods and Applications Using an Indian District as Case Study

af Soumendu Chatterjee, m.fl.

This book acquaints readers with a range of techniques to help them effectively identify, record, map, analyze and report on patterns in various dimensions of human development (HD) with spatial scales down to the village level. It is impossible to capture HD at the local and global scale with only a single index, because differences in HD at the international scale are caused by ¿general¿ factors, whereas local-scale differences are influenced by ¿specific¿ factors. This book offers a variety o... (Læs mere)