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In this book, biologists, sociologists, historians and activists come together to search out solutions to the key problems of contemporary conservation practices. Much of the world's wildlife and biological diversity is located in less developed countries where there is intense competition for resources between people and wildlife. Common questions face all such countries. Should the state or should local communities manage natural resources? Should ...
This book contends that there is an alarmist rhetoric on grazing-induced degradation in the Western Himalaya. Combining field based and archival research, this study establishes an absence of empirical evidence to support the Forest Department's claims regarding the degrading impact of shepherd land use practices. Simultaneously, the book points to the use by the Forest Department of models of forest functioning that have been discredited within ecological ...
This book explores two principal contradictions in environmental politics in India—between conservation and large-scale development projects, and between short-term electoral politics and long-term imperatives of environmental conservation. The Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Himachal Pradesh, north-western India, is home to the western Tragopan—an endangered pheasant. It shares its habitat with the local population living on the park's fringes. In ...