Conservation and Development in India: Reimagining Wilderness

ISBN-13: 9780367593445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Shonil Bhagwat

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Conservation and development in India  2. The impact of the Anthropocene in the locality: Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century 3. For the Environment against Conservation: Conflict between renewable energy and biodiversity protection in India  4. Species and Sites Matter: Understanding Human-Wildlife Interactions from 5000 surveys in India  5. Thinking like an Elephant, looking beyond protected areas  6. Biodiversity in Community-managed Landscapes: A View of Potential and Constraints in the Van Panchayats of Kumaon Himalayas  7. Mapping Landscapes: History, Culture and Local Knowledge in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, India  8. Conservation and Development: Beyond National Parks and Sanctuaries  9. Ficus to Filter: Understanding complexities of market incentives for conserving biodiversity on private lands  10. Conclusions: Reimagining wilderness

O autorze

Shonil Bhagwat is an academic at the Open University, UK. As an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in natural and social sciences, his research interests centre on the links between environment and development. His research addresses the perceived grand environmental challenges within the context of growing discussion on the Anthropocene, the age of humans. He was previously Course Director of the MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at the University of Oxford, UK. He has DPhil and MSc degrees from the University of Oxford, and MSc and BSc degrees from the University of Pune, India.