History, culture, religion and identity are often used to legitimise conflicts. But these causes not always act as the sole divisive forces to initiate conflict unless there are economic reasons. Conflict leads to human displacement and loss of life, destruction of assets and low investment....

Of all natural disasters, floods are the most consistently recurring events in India. India has several regions that are particularly vulnerable to floods. During the last decade India was affected by flood more than other events. An analysis of vulnerability of flood in different States in...

There has been no consensus over the concept and measurement of vulnerability to poverty (VP). Many scholars bring in different perspectives to discuss various conceptual and measurement issues. This paper summarizes the available economic literature on the definitions and measurements of VP....

We integrate supply and demand aspects in analyzing the determinants of financing free elementary education (FEE) across states in India over the period 2005–2016, before and after the reform (implementation of the Right to Education Act, 2009). We find that the income (per capita) elasticity...

An analysis of relevant data for 27 Indian states from 2005-06 to 2016-17 indicates that there were considerable variations in the provision of free elementary education (FEE) across states. While there was a slight decline in the access dimension of FEE, especially after the implementation of...

Wetlands of non-prominence that have been discussed here are some water bodies in the lower-Gangetic floodplains of India. People surrounding these wetlands earn their livelihood and derive many direct and indirect benefits from them. But in the process of acquiring benefits stakeholders place...

In regret analysis, an entity (either an individual or a group or a country) feels regret by taking a decision for any particular action when there are other ways to act. Such regret often motivates someone to settle conflict. The present paper discusses such a possibility using a mathematical...

Conflict resolution curve (CRC) separates conflict styles into two separate domains: domain of competing entities and domain of accommodating entities. There is a sort of agreement between targets and aggressors on this curve. Their judgements of badness compared to goodness of each other are...

To the world, any country certain to cause pain is unacceptable. China’s military and economic aggression is disturbing the world peace. The country is said to be the root cause of trade war and recent Covid-19 pandemic. Most people are afraid of another great war that might be triggered by...

Displeasure is a concept in emotion research, and has been studied over a long time. But this concept is not significantly addressed in planning and development except very few. In reality, displeasure leads to conflict, which in turn outbursts into violence, terrorism and so on. In this...