Conservation And Development In India

Author : Shonil Bhagwat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317413530

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Conservation and Development in India by Shonil Bhagwat Pdf

Despite decades of efforts to integrate conservation and development, India is torn between two very different worldviews of peoples’ place in the country’s natural environment. This book takes a critical look at nature conservation and poverty alleviation in India. It opens up discussion of the conservation–development nexus in a country that stands at a major crossroads, where forces of neoliberalism, globalisation and urbanisation are driving the future of India’s environment. As the book shows, conservation in India is increasingly concerned with creating ‘theme parks’ – inviolate, albeit isolated, spaces for wild nature, whereas development is concerned with fast-tracking the construction of built infrastructure while also rolling out nationwide welfare programmes – promising food, clothing and shelter for the poorest of the poor living in rural India. Conservation and development therefore have very different motivations and attempts to find a common ground have been fraught with challenges. This has been particularly so on the fringes of wildlife parks, where the rural poor come in frequent contact with wild animals to the detriment of both people and wildlife. Chapters are written by leading scholars on India to provide a vision of the future of Indian nature conservation. Whilst focused on India, the book will also be of interest to scholars and researchers of conservation and development more globally. As a ‘rising power’, the world’s eyes are set on India’s development trajectory and there is unprecedented interest in the course of development that the world’s largest democracy takes in the decades to come.

Author : Seema Bhatt,Syed Liyakhat
Publisher : Cambridge India
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ecotourism
ISBN : 9788175965980

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Ecotourism Development in India by Seema Bhatt,Syed Liyakhat Pdf

Ecotourism is a term debated upon by practitioners all over the world. The initiatives carried out in the name of ecotourism have adversely affected people and the environment. The indigenous and local communities have raised voices against such steps at local, national and international levels. However, sustainable ecotourism - tourism carried out within certain defined norms, can lead to the development of the people. Ecotourism Development in India attempts to present a comprehensive and analytical perspective on the development of ecotourism in India . This book showcases the key policies and legal frameworks linked to ecotourism development at national and international levels. The consequences of large-scale models of ecotourism in terms of responses and impacts, both negative and positive, are presented through select case studies. It is intended to facilitate effective formulation and implementation of conservation and development policies and practices.

Author : Ashwini Chhatre,Vasant K. Saberwal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015069308800

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Democratizing Nature by Ashwini Chhatre,Vasant K. Saberwal Pdf

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Author : Manish Chalana,Ashima Krishna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000296365

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Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India by Manish Chalana,Ashima Krishna Pdf

Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India seeks to position the conservation profession within historical, theoretical, and methodological frames to demonstrate how the field has evolved in the postcolonial decades and follow its various trajectories in research, education, advocacy, and practice. Split into four sections, this book covers important themes of institutional and programmatic developments in the field of conservation; critical and contemporary challenges facing the profession; emerging trends in practice that seek to address contemporary challenges; and sustainable solutions to conservation issues. The cases featured within the book elucidate the evolution of the heritage conservation profession, clarifying the role of key players at the central, state, and local level, and considering intangible, minority, colonial, modern, and vernacular heritages among others. This book also showcases unique strands of conservation practice in the postcolonial decades to demonstrate the range, scope, and multiple avenues of development in the last seven decades. An ideal read for those interested in architecture, planning, historic preservation, urban studies, and South Asian studies.

Author : Prakāśa Gole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015054305654

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Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development in India by Prakāśa Gole Pdf

This Provocative Book Disagrees In Many Respects With The Prevalent State Environmentalism In India And At The Same Times It Also Tries To Give It A Sharper Edge And A Correct Ecological Foundation. In All The Aspects Of Biodiversity And Human Welfare, The Book Has Something New To Say And Offer Based On The Author`S Research And Experimentation.

Author : Amrita Sen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000477665

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A Political Ecology of Forest Conservation in India by Amrita Sen Pdf

This book critically explores the political ecology of human marginalization, wildlife conservation and the role of the state in politicizing conservation frameworks, drawing on examples from forests in India. The book specifically demonstrates the nuances within human-environmental linkages, by showing how environmental concerns are not only ecological in content but also political. In India a large part of the forests and their surrounding areas were inhabited far before they were designated as protected areas and inviolate zones, with the local population reliant on forests for their survival and livelihoods. Thus, socioecological conflicts between the forest dependents and official state bodies have been widespread. This book uses a political ecology lens to explore the complex interplay between current norms of forest conservation and environmental subjectivities, illustrating contemporary articulation of forest rights and the complex mediations between forest dependents and different state and non-state bodies in designing and implementing regulatory standards for wildlife and forest protection. It foregrounds the issues of identity, migration and cultural politics while discussing the politics of conservation. Through a political ecology approach, the book not only is human-centric but also makes significant use of the role of non-humans in foregrounding the conservation discourse, with a particular focus on tigers. The book will be of great interest to students and academics studying forest conservation, human–wildlife interactions and political ecology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 935287613X

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Nature Conservation in the New Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Newsham,Shonil Bhagwat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317440598

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Conservation and Development by Andrew Newsham,Shonil Bhagwat Pdf

Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s. But what are the prospects for reconciling the two, and how far have we come with this project? This book explores these questions through a detailed consideration of the past, present and future of the relationship between conservation and development. Bringing to bear conceptual resources from political ecology, social-ecological systems thinking and science and technology studies, Conservation and Development sets this relationship against the background of the political and economic processes implicated in environmental degradation and poverty alike. Whilst recognising that the need for reconciling conservation and development processes remains as compelling as ever, it demonstrates why trade-offs are more frequently encountered in practice than synergies. It also flags alternative visions for conservation and development obscured or ignored by current framings and priorities. Bringing together policy and theory, Conservation and Development is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students and a useful reference for researchers in related fields. Each chapter contains a reading guide with discussion questions. The text is enlivened by a number of new case studies from around the world. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the history, current state, and projections for future shifts in the relationship between conservation and development.

Author : Bimal N. Patel,Ranita Nagar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199474621

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Sustainable Development and India by Bimal N. Patel,Ranita Nagar Pdf

The three pillars of sustainable development are economic growth, social development, and protection of environment, and an integration of these pillars is required for national planning and policymaking. The greatest drawback of the existing literature in India is an inadequate understanding of the interplay of these three pillars. While dealing with the concept of sustainable development, the Focus of the international community is on technical and environmental issues and challenges. Offering unique integrated approach, which includes both macro and micro analyses, this volume is an interdisciplinary study of the various challenges that shape debates on sustainable development in India. The contributions cover issues like the role of patents in development, conservation of natural resources, protection of the marine environment, poverty, bioremediation, importance of the ocean life as well as e-waste management and the role of local governments in attaining sustainability-issues which directly affect the progress of an economy. The theoretical and empirical analyses presented in this volume raise varied questions, yet the integrated whole that emerges reveals the future directions, which will shape the policy and theoretical debates an sustainable development. Book jacket.

Author : Madhav Gadgil
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 8178241129

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Ecological Journeys by Madhav Gadgil Pdf

The Essays In This Book Deal With Many Facets Of The Natural World And The World Of Humans, And How The Two Impinge On Each Other. The Author`S Detailed Studies Of Hunting And Gathering Communities Led Him To Controversially Champion Traditional Methods Of Conserving Nature. The Merits Of State-Sponsored Conservation Initiatives Are Weighed Up In His Work, As Is Planned `Development`. He Argues Passionately Against Directing Energy, Water And Raw Materials Towards Intensive Agriculture And Urban Development At At The Cost Of The Rural Poor. He Calls For Radical Changes In The Indian Polity So That People Are Not Denied Basic Information And Therefore Prevented From Participating In Development Issues. These Essays Stimulate And Provoke Us To Think For Ourselves About The Natural World And Our Relationship With It, Urging Us To Take A Hand In Shaping It.

Author : Prerna Singh Bindra
Publisher : India Viking
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : 0670088870

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The Vanishing by Prerna Singh Bindra Pdf

Can a populous country like India 'afford' to protect wildlife? Is there space for wildlife in a land-scarce, densely populated country, and can wild animals and people coexist, or is the relationship inevitably confrontational? Is conservation and protecting the flora and fauna a hindrance to the growth agenda? Is development inimical to ecological security? The Vanishing explores such burning issues that confront wildlife conservation today.

Author : Thomas O. McShane,Michael P. Wells
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 9780231127653

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Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work by Thomas O. McShane,Michael P. Wells Pdf

This book explores both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of integrated conservation and development. It synthesizes existing experience to better inform conservationists and decision makers of the role ICDPs play in conservation and management and analyzes their successes and shortcomings.

Author : Alok Gupta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793614551

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Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice in India by Alok Gupta Pdf

Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice in India highlights the environmental challenges that India faces, largely due to high population and limited natural resources, and discusses the gap between the intent of environmental policies and the actualization of those policies. Contributors posit that the protection of the environment poses a fundamental challenge to the nation’s desire to industrialize and develop more quickly, arguing that the conservation of biodiversity, protection of wetlands, prevention of environmental pollution, and promotion of ecological balance are all crucial in enabling sustainable development. This book poses the question of how large a role the judiciary system should play in the protection of the environment as a vital body that passes policies to promote conservation and sustainable development.

Author : Kanchan Chopra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811037610

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Development and Environmental Policy in India by Kanchan Chopra Pdf

This book examines the nuances of the relationship between development and environmental conservation policy in India over the last three decades. While India is taken as the focal point, the study extends to an analysis of global aspects and other developing countries as and when the situation demands. Understanding that development always has to take environmental issues into consideration, the book undertakes critical reviews of the different ways in which this has been done. The review is based on a grasp of the simultaneous developments in the theoretical understanding of the environment and ecosystems and provides pointers towards directions for possible change. The motivation for the book lies in the continuing distance between theoretical knowledge of the role of the environment, in particular the underlying long-term links between human wellbeing and wise use of nature, and its application in public policy. The book also proposes that whichever theoretical cornerstone is taken as the starting point, it is the ethical undertones that drive the analysis in directions that acquire meaning in terms of the quality and legitimacy of decision-making. It explores the relevance to policy of a variety of radical conceptual development and policy directions, such as dematerialising growth, the social metabolism approach and the degrowth movement. Further, the dilemma facing environmental policy continues to be how to simultaneously borrow from developments in and across disciplines while at the same time, and at a more practical level, dealing with a diversity of stakeholders.

Author : Malcolm Jansen,Susan Shen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821340840

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Experiences with Integrated-conservation Development Projects in Asia by Malcolm Jansen,Susan Shen Pdf

China is in the throes of two transitions: from a command economy to a market-based one and from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one. So far, both transitions have been spectacularly successful. China is the fastest-growing economy in the world, with per capita incomes more than quadrupling since 1978, achieving in two generations what took other countries centuries. Although swift growth and structural change have resolved many problems, they also have created new challenges: employment insecurity, growing inequality, stubborn poverty, mounting environmental pressures, rising costs of food self-sufficiency, and periods of macroeconomic instability stemming from incomplete reforms. Unmet, these challenges could undermine the sustainability of growth, and China's promise could fade. China 2020, a seven-volume set, examines China's recent history, where it is today, and the path it should follow during the first two decades of the 21st century. The volume in the set entitled, At Chinas Table: Food Security Options focuses on how China will avoid national chronic food insecurity. The report evaluates solutions such as food storage and other alternatives for addressing the problems of transitory food insecurity from drought or other seasonal calamity. It discusses national food security constraints and the investments required to maintain total factor productivity of 1.0 percent per year. The study also models and projects food supply and demand for 2020.