Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Conservation Landscapes and Human Well-Being : Sustainable Development in the Eastern Himalayas, EPUB eBook

Conservation Landscapes and Human Well-Being : Sustainable Development in the Eastern Himalayas EPUB

Edited by Siddhartha Krishnan, Soubadra Devy (Associate Editor), Neha Mohanty (Associate Editor)

Part of the Transition in Northeastern India series

EPUB

Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

The Himalayas are said to be the youngest mountain ranges in the world.

This book studies the well-being of the eastern Himalayan forest-dwellers in terms of their capabilities and functioning.

Using Amartya Sen’s and Martha Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach, it examines the educational and health opportunities and substantial freedoms afforded to farmers and pastoralists living and working in the Senchal and Singalila Protected Areas of North Bengal, India.

It also discusses the challenges and potential of the Forest Rights Act as a well-being delivery mechanism.

The book adopts a comparative narrative of socio-ecological information generated from interviews, ecological field methods, remote sensing and participatory rural appraisals to provide insight on human development in conservation contexts.

This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of conservation biology, development studies, socio-ecological systems studies, political ecology, human development index, ecological economics, environmental sociology, and South Asian studies.

It will also be useful to policy-makers and NGOs in the conservation and livelihoods sector.

Information

Information