02051nam a22002297a 4500999001700000020001800017041001300035082002200048245016600070260003300236300001400269504001900283520116900302546001301471650005501484650005001539700003301589700002801622700002701650942001201677952013201689  c37407d37407  a9780367749385  aEnglish.  a304.2095496bCON-  aConservation Landscapes and Human Well-Being /bsustainable development in the eastern Himalayas :cedited by Siddhartha Krishna, Soubadra Devy and Neha Mohanty.  aNew York:bRoutledge,c2021.  aix, 148p.  aInclude index.  aThe 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.  aEnglish.  aSustainable developmentzimalaya Mountains Region.  aProtected areas z Himalaya Mountains Region.  aKrishnan, SiddharthaeEditor  aDevy, Soubadraeeditor.  aMohanty, Nehaeeditor.  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2023-03-16eOverseasg0.00l0o304.2095496 CON-p53007r2023-04-19 00:00:00v0.00w2023-04-19yBK