Gebundenes Buch

Conservation through Sustainable Use

Lessons from India

Herausgeber: Varghese, Anita; Mary Paul, Mridula; Oommen, Meera Anna

Beschreibung

This volume on sustainable-use practises throughout India indetifies the policies, management strategies, and knowledge contexts that contribute to resource use without damaging biological diversity.

Autor

Anita Varghese is Director (Biodiversity) at Keystone Foundation. She holds a bachelor's degree in Zoology (Bombay University), master's degree in Ecology (Pondicherry University), and a doctorate in Botany (University of Hawaii). Her interests are in plant conservation specifically on sustainable use, non-timber forest products, long-term population dynamics of harvested species, invasive plants, cycads, and forest trees. Meera Anna Oommen is a trustee of Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore, and the Madras Crocodile Bank. She works on issues related to ecology, conservation science, and environmental history. Her recent work focuses on incorporating insights from multiple disciplines to understand the dynamics of human-wildlife conflict, aspects related to human-animal relationships, and the history of hunting in India. Mridula Mary Paul is a postgraduate researcher at the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. She has previously been Senior Policy Analyst with the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru, and practised environmentallaw before the Madras High Court. Snehlata Nath is Founder Director of Keystone Foundation and has worked on conservation-livelihoods-enterprise with indigenous people in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. She co-founded the NTFP Exchange Program network across Asia and has coordinated the India chapter for over 20 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781032290836
• ISBN-10: 1032290838
• Artikelnr.: 65610483