REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Theory)

Paper Code: 
24CGEO201
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Regional development is the core area of geographical inquiry. Decentralized planning has a profound role in managing the evolved situation.

Course Outcomes: 
CO1: Analyse the theoretical foundation and conceptual grounding of this branch; they will understand and identify regions as an integral part of geographical study.
CO2: Interpret the role and relevance in regional planning and about regional imbalances.
CO3: Acquire a thorough understanding of choice of planning region and process of delineation of planning regions based on selected parameters.
CO4: Explore the models of regional planning and appreciate the relevance of the regional planning.
CO5: Assess the theoretical perspective on the models and special area development plans of regional planning.
CO6: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
12.00
  • Definition of Region
  • Types and Need of Regional Planning
  • Formal, Functional and Planning regions.
12.00
  • Regional Development
  • Regional Imbalance
  • Problems of Functional Regions
12.00
  • Choice of a Region for Planning
  • Characteristics of an Ideal Planning Region
  • Delineation of Planning Regions
12.00
  • Regions: Regionalization of India for planning (Agro Ecological Zones)
  • Strategies / Models for Regional Planning
  • Growth pole model of Perroux
12.00
  • Growth center model in Indian Context: Village Cluster
  • Problem Regions and Regional planning
  • Backward Regions and Regional plans
  • Special area development plans in India
  • DVC- The success story and failure
Essential Readings: 
  • Adell, Germán (1999) Literature Review: Theories and Models Of The Peri-Urban Interface: A
  • Changing Conceptual Landscape, Peri-urban Research Project Team, Development Planning Unit,
  • University College London at
  • Bhatt, L.S. (1976) Micro Level Planning in India. KB Publication, Delhi
  • Deshpande C. D., 1992: India: A Regional Interpretation, ICSSR, New Delhi.
  • Dreze J. and A. Sen, Indian Development: Select Regional Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University
  • Press, 1996).
  • Ses, Amratya (2000) Development as Freedom. Random House, Toronto 6. Raza, M., Ed. (1988).
  • Regional Development. Contributions to Indian Geography. New Delhi, Heritage Publishers.
  • Rapley, John (2007) Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the 3rd World. Lynne
  • Rienner, London.
  • Schmidt-Kallert, Einhard (2005) A Short Introduction to Micro-Regional Planning, Food and
  • Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Sdyasuk Galina and P Sengupta (1967): Economic Regionalisation of India, Census of India.
 
 
SUGGESTED READINGS
  • Raza, Munish, 1993, Social Structure and Regional Development, Rawat Publications.
  • Mandal, R.B., 1990, Patterns of Regional Geography, Concept Publishing Company Pvt Limited.
  • Chorley,R.J., Hagget Peter, 1974, Network Analysis in Geography, Hodder and Stoughton Educational Publisher.
References: 
  1. https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/Download
  2. http://www.asiageo.net/Publication
  3. https://eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj
  4. https://epathshala.nic.in/
  5. https://egyankosh.ac.in
Academic Year: 
2024-2025