Resume

• 2005

  Hindi

  English

  Maithili

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Graduate student

  research and administration

  Economic Geography

  Indiana State University

• 2003

  Master's degree

  Geography

  The University of Akron

• 1998

  Educational Consultants India Limited

  University of South Alabama

  Indiana State University

  Educational Consultants India Limited

• 1993

  Sanket

  Washington DC

  As Geography Intern I was attached with the Children's Education Program. My duties involved program management.

  Geography Intern

  National Geographic

  West Plains

  MO

  Teaching

  Research and Administration

  Assistant Professor of Geography

  Missouri State University-West Plains

  Research

  Sanket

  Research

  Sanket

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Teaching

  Research and Administration

  Indiana State University

  University of South Alabama

  Mobile

  Alabama Area

  Teaching

  Research and Administration.

  Assistant Professor of Geography

  Knoxville

  TN

  Teaching

  Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography

  University of Tennessee

  West Plains

  MO

  Associate Professor of Geography

  Missouri State University-West Plains

  Chair - Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group (2011-12)

  Association of American Geographers

  Chair

  West Lakes Division American Association of Geographers

  Faculty Senate Chair

  Missouri State University

  Member

  Editorial Board

  Asian Geographer

• Conceptualizing projects

  project management and grant writing

  West Plains

  MO

  Teaching

  Higher Education

  Geography

  Grant Writing

  Research

  Qualitative Research

  Curriculum Development

  Curriculum Design

  Data Analysis

  ArcGIS

  Statistics

  Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development (2 vols)

  Urban and Regional Planning and Development: 20th Century Forms and 21st Century Transformations

  The present book will consider the planning and development practice in the twentieth century and ways in which it is being transformed in the current times. What are some of the factors affecting planning dynamics globally and locally? With the push to adopt a market paradigm in land development and infrastructure

  the relationship between resource management

  sustainable development and the role of governance has transformed. Centralized planning is giving way to privatization not only in the traditional regions but also in newly emerging regions of Asia

  Africa and Latin America. There is an attempt to get planning decision making closer to the people who are most affected by it. \n\nWithin this conceptual discussion

  the current volume intends to be a collection of studies from scholars around the world highlighting recent advances in the field. This volume is expected to serve as a reference material for those concerned with urban transformations. \n\nEditors: Rajiv Thakur

  Ashok Dutt

  Sudhir Thakur

  George Pomeroy\n

  Environment

  Development

  and Culture: Global Perspectives

  The present book will investigate environmental change

  development practices and the impact of both on the cultural landscape. Asking fundamental questions such as what are some of the factors affecting environmental change dynamics globally and locally? We are aware that global warming

  climate change and mitigation measures are all significant to the changing socio-cultural processes

  human-environment interactions and in the making of disasters. By addressing the complex and diverse interactions of resources and environmental management under environmental uncertainty

  the imperative need of sustainability and respecting cultural diversity

  this volume will raise the issues that every student of our changing global environment needs to confront. \n\nWithin this conceptual discussion the current volume intends to be a collection of studies from scholars around the world highlighting recent advances in the field. This volume is expected to serve as a reference material for those concerned with new ways of thinking on environment/society dynamics.\n\nEditors: Rajiv Thakur

  Ashok Dutt

  Stanley Brunn

  Baleshwar Thakur

  Ramesh Dhussa

  Local Economy and Sustainable Development: Praxis and Prospect

  The concept of local economy has traditionally been taken to mean a reasonably coherent set of economic activities that are connected to one another over a sub-national geographic area

  generally defined by a ‘market’ of some form. Additionally

  resource-extractive industries and the places dependent upon them provide a particularly graphic illustration of how local or regional economies can come into being and then disappear. This more often leads to the integration of the theory of uneven development into resource-environment analysis providing a strong conceptual basis for further related economic-environment analyses at the local and regional scale. As a logical next step

  local economic development issues are very susceptible to competitiveness and collaboration. In the wake of the above

  sustainability and sustainable development have received an enormous amount of attention in recent years. From regional and local

  to corporate responsibility practices

  to development policies

  the term has been attached to a variety of projects. Widespread and ongoing debates over sustainability point up a major divide between those who think that economic development necessarily entails environmental degradation and destruction and those who believe that economic development is not necessarily environmentally harmful. In a sustainable world

  everything is connected to everything else

  and people are called on to act accordingly. In this context

  we intend this volume to be a celebration of the ‘local’. Contributors will examine the nature of the local economy and sustainable development in towns or villages that we often refer to as the local scale. \n\nEditors: Baleshwar Thakur

  Rajiv Thakur and Rajesh Abhay

  Thakur

  Rajiv

  Thakur

  University of Tennessee

  National Geographic

  Missouri State University-West Plains