This festschrift, running into two volume, attempts to address a wide range of issues concerning resources and development. Focusing on regional resources, Volume One discusses at length its concept, classification and conservation, general features of Himalayan agriculture, production of major Kharif crops in India, agricultural resources and development in tribal areas, dynamics of agricultural productivity, tourism resources, coal resources of India, human resources of India, and transport as a resource.

Volume Two examines development patterns across the globe. It describes in detail the missing social conscience in development resources, geopolitics, techniques for regional delimitation, rural household incomes, iron and cotton textile industry, regional structure of industries, rural service centres, typology of market centres, dynamics of development, and integrated watershed management.