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Author Varghese, Anita

Title Conservation Through Sustainable Use Lessons from India
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (203 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 An introduction to sustainable use: And its contribution to biodiversity conservation in India -- 2 Sustainable use and biodiversity conservation: When the twain shall meet! -- PART I Governance -- 3 The governance of sustainable use: Historical legacy and contemporary deployment -- 4 Small islands, big lessons: Critical insights on sustainable fisheries from India's coral atolls -- PART II Enterprises
5 Ensuring sustainable harvests through market-based tools and community-based organizations: A practitioner's perspective -- 6 Sustainable use of wild medicinal plant resources: Developing field methods for sustainable collection and direct market linkages -- PART III Community knowledge -- 7 The pig and the turtle: An ecological reading of ritual and taboo in ethnographic accounts on Andamanese hunter-gatherers -- 8 Rethinking indigenous hunting in Northeastern India: Some lessons for academics and practitioners
9 Sustainable grazing practices: Conserving biodiversity in an Asian tropical grassland -- PART IV Intangible benefits -- 10 Counting to conserve: The role of communities and civil society in monitoring marine turtles -- 11 Bringing reptiles into the conservation sphere: A personal account -- 12 Linking ecotourism and biodiversity conservation: Lessons from India -- 13 Sacred groves of Central India: Beyond the botany and the ecology -- PART V Conclusion -- 14 Sustainable use and biodiversity conservation: Experiences, challenges, and ways forward -- Glossary -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Biodiversity conservation -- India
Form Electronic book
Author Oommen, Meera Anna
Mary Paul, Mridula
Nath, Snehlata
ISBN 9781000789102
1000789101