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  • The Himalayan Dilemma

    Reconciling Development and Conservation

    de Jack D. Ives, Bruno Messerli ...
    `This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of environmental studies and international development ... It is indeed, a book appropriate to the urgent and critical issues which it addresses.' - Journal of Environmental ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Baffin Island

    Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67

    de Jack D. Ives ...
    Series Libro 18 - Northern Lights
    A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada’s Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources travelled to Baffin to study glacial geomorphology and glaciology. Their ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Arctic and Alpine Environments

    Edición de Jack D. Ives, Roger G. Barry ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ecology
    Originally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology. The book argues that there is a necessity for carefully controlled development of the resources of these regions and suggests that there is a risk of irreversible disturbance without full ... Leer más

    $86.99 USD

  • The Arctic

    Environment, People, Policy

    Edición de Jack D. Ives, Roger G. Barry ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ecology
    Originally published in 2000, The Arctic provides a comprehensive overview of the region's rapidly changing physical and human dimensions, and demonstrates the importance of communication between natural scientists, social scientists, and local stakeholders in response to the tremendous challenges and opportunities facing the Arctic. It is an essential resource for all Arctic researchers, ... Leer más

    $305.99 USD

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  • Ecology and Equity

    The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

    de Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha ...
    Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • Biodiversity Conservation, Indigenous Knowledge and practices: A Naga Perspective

    de Martemjen ...
    Conservationist has been contemptuous of Indigenous peoples and their knowledge. As such, all the modern polices, acts and laws in biodiversity conservation intends to follow a “top down” approach, where decisions to be enacted upon the local people, their land, biodiversity, forest etc are done at the top level without the local peoples consent, which ultimately leads to conflict. As such, the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edición de Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes ...
    Series series Studies in Environmental Anthropology
    The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Protected Areas and Indigeneous Communities

    Anthropogenic Dependence & Impact on Biodiversity

    de Azra Musavi ...
    This book deals with protected area-people interface in Bori Wildife Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Reserve located in Satpura range of Central Indian Highlands. These forests are mostly inhabited by Gond, Korku, and Thatia tribes, a small population of agro-pastoral community and other backward classes, which have moved into these forests from adjoining areas in search of pastures for their large ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Understanding Biodiversity

    Life, Sustainability and Equity

    de Ashish Kothari ...
    Series series Tracts for the Times 11
    Understanding Biodiversity comes as a wake-up call at a time when the predatory practices of our 'modern' civilization have transformed nature into an exploitable resource, opened up our plant and animal life to endless expropriation and eroded the biodiversity that has made our life on earth possible. This tract forces us to confront basic issues: the need to conserve biodiversity, the ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Environment, Technology and Development

    Critical and Subversive Essays

    de Rohan D’Souza ...
    Series series Readings on the Economy, Polity and Society
    Drawn from the rich archival holdings of the Economic and Political Weekly, the essays in this volume capture the intense discussions in India that were debated as problems and questions over the environment, technology and development. As a collection, this volume proposes a fresh and new analytical coherence for these essays by re-situating them with an engaging introduction under the broader ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World

    de Michael Sill ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Set
    Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, ranging from the great mountains to the north through the trans-Himalaya, a high barren plateau, through ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Conservation and Development in India

    Reimagining Wilderness

    Edición de Shonil Bhagwat ...
    Series series Earthscan Conservation and Development
    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 ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD