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Indigenous People and Nature,

Edition 1 Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability

Edited by Uday Chatterjee, Anil Kashyap, Mark Everard, Gopal Krishna Panda and Dinabandhu Mahata

Publication Date: 14 Apr 2022

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Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability examines today’s environmental challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions around the globe. Organized in four parts, the book describes the foundations of human geography and its current research challenges, the intersections between environment and cultural diversity, addressing various type of ecosystem services and their interaction with the environment, the impacts of sustainability practices used by indigenous culture on the ecosystem, and conservation ecology and environment management.

Using theoretical and applied insights from local communities around the world, this book helps geographers, demographers, environmentalists, economists, sociologists and urban planners tackle today’s environmental problems from new perspectives.

Key Features

Includes in-depth case studies across different geographic spaces
Contains contributions from a range of young to eminent scholars, researchers and policymakers
Highlights new insights from social science, environmental science and sustainable development
Synthesizes research on society, ecology and technology with sustainability, all in a single resource

About the author

Edited by Uday Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Bhatter College (Affiliated to Vidyasagar University), Dantan, India ; Anil Kashyap, Head, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England, UK; Mark Everard, Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services, University of the West of England, UK; Gopal Krishna Panda, Emeritus Professor in Geography and former Chief Executive of the Population Research Center, Utkal University, India and Dinabandhu Mahata, Researcher, Department of Geography, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction: Structural view and Distribution of Ecosystem Population
1. Concepts and Approaches of ecosystem population and sustainability
2. Structural view of ecosystem population
3. Ethno-ecological distribution of population
4. Livelihood issues and challenges of ecosystem people

Part 2: Intersection between environment and cultural diversity
5. Environment and traditional culture
6. Interdependence between nature and people
7. Cultural diversity and social-ecological systems
8. Self-sufficiency in food and farming

Part 3: indigenous and traditional culture impact on the ecosystem and population
9. Human activities on ecosystems and sustainable development
10. Ancient knowledge impact on the ecosystem and population
11. Habitat changes, biodiversity and sustainability

Part 4: Conservation ecology and ecosystem people
12. Nature conservation and forest dwellers
13. Ethno-medicine and ecosystem population
14. Ecosystem population mapping and Sustainable use of natural resources
15. Conclusion

Book details

ISBN: 9780323916035

Page Count: 638

Retail Price : £95.95

9780127999685; 9780128224199; 9780128183557

Audience

Researchers Upper level undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students. Scientists, planners, managers, and government policy makers Applicable courses or exams : Social Sciences (i.e. Sustainability, Human Geography, Socio-Ecological Systems, Sociology, Economics, etc.) Environmental Sciences (i.e. Sustainability, Ecosystems, Ecology, Biodiversity, etc.)