Economics of India's space programme: an exploratory analysis (Record no. 296282)
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| fixed length control field | 01622 a2200205 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 140323b2007 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780195683455 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 330.1 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sankar, U. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 209257 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Economics of India's space programme: an exploratory analysis |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Sankar, U. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii, 312 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | INR 695.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Space technologies assist in driving innovations, expanding knowledge, and enhancing information. An investment in the future, they are an important tool of social and economic development. The first ever economic analysis of the space programme in India, this book discusses the development of satellites and launch vehicles, uses of communication and remote sensing satellites, and demonstrates India comparative advantage in producing transponders. For each sector in the application segmentb?roadcasting, telecommunications, meteorology, and remote sensingt?his study identifies contributions of space technology in terms of cost savings, social benefits, and improvements in the quality of products/services offered. The book emphasizes the need to take the benefits of services to ultimate users in an efficient manner and opens the door for innovative applications of space data in areas such as natural resource management, forecasting of crop yields, urban planning, pollution monitoring, and environmental accounting. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Space in economics |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Measure theory |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social sciences - Methodology |
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| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad | 04/05/2009 | 330.1 S2E2 | 162665 | 04/09/2009 | 04/09/2009 | Book |