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Dr. G.P. Mishra is former Director of Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow. Earlier he served as lecturer in Economics, Ranchi and Patna universities and also a Fellow (i.d., Associate Professor) in rural Economics Unit, Institute of Social and Economic Change, Banglore. He has published good number of research papers in various academic journals of national and international importance. He has also authored, co-authored and edited a good number of books, some of which are: Some Aspects of Changes in Agrarian Structure 1977; anatomy of Rural Unemployment and Policy Prescriptions 1989; Dynamics of Rural Development in Village India 1982; Regional Structure of Development and Growth in India 1985; Child Labour in Carpet Industry as well as in Glass Industry 1996; Distribution of Surplus Land among Rural Poor 1996; Community Participation in Natural Resource Management 2001 and Land Reforms and Human Development 2005.

Dr. Asha Gupta is a faculty member at the department of Life sciences, Manipur University, Imphal. She obtained her M.Sc. degree in 1975 from the university of Sagar and Ph.D. Botany from Nagpur University in 1981. Under a post Doctoral fellowship of the Ministry of education, USSR she obtained her D.Sc. degree from Moscow university in 1990. She has presented papers in international conferences in Finland, France, japan, Russia and Italy and organized a symposium on matrix Models in Ecology, in 1998 at the Internal Congress of ecology at Florence, Italy. She has successfully completed research projects funded by CSIR, DST, Forest Deptt. Govt. of Manipur, WWF and Loktak Development Authority. She has published several reviews and research articles in journals of national and international repute. She is the editor of recently published book-Advancing Frontiers of ecological researchers.