Conservation landscapes and human well-being : sustainable development in the Eastern Himalayas
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Conservation landscapes and human well-being : sustainable development in the Eastern Himalayas
（Transition in Northeastern India）
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
1. Human Well-being in Conservation Landscapes 2. Sustainable Development as Freedom 3. Justice and the Jungle: Contextualizing the Central Capabilities in Singalila and Senchal Landscapes 4. Sustainable Ecological Capacity of Forest-Fringe Families 5. Our 'Other Species' Capabilities and Capabilities of Other Species 6. Our Village Would Have Been Heaven: What the Families of Gorkhey Value 7. Conclusion: Inclusion
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