Overview
- Provides tools for practitioners and policy makers on conservation and management issues
- Focuses on topics such as green growth, poverty reduction using natural capital, food security, biodiversity governance and sharing of benefits of conservation and access equitably
- Aims to bring out best practises to strengthen the effectiveness of biodiversity governance at different levels for a sustainable future
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Challenges and Solutions (ECAS, volume 3)
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Divided into three sections, this book explores the three main pillars of sustainable development, namely economy, environment and society, and their interlinkages at the regional level. The first section, Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) for sustainable development, focuses on international agreements and national legislation, as well as the challenges in implementing ABS in e.g. India. In turn, the second section examines the process of forming Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) at the Local Self Government (LSG) level to promote environmental sustainability, highlighting local and community-level conservation initiatives that have led to the conservation of habitats and species.
The third section addresses poverty eradication and food security. The case studies included demonstrate how the combination of traditional knowledge and modern techniques can enhance the productivity of traditional crop varieties, yielding greater benefits for communities.
The aim of this volume is to disseminate the lessons learned from these case studies, as well as the findings from projects already in place, which can offer recommendations that can be applied to similar problems elsewhere in an attempt to find environmental solutions for sustainable development. Further, it introduces readers to new approaches to inclusive development, demonstrating that participation and grass root empowerment are key drivers of equitable and sustainable development.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Access and Benefit Sharing for Sustainable Development
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Biodiversity Governance for Sustainable Development
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Biodiversity for Sustainable Livelihood
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biodiversity for Sustainable Development
Editors: K.P. Laladhas, Preetha Nilayangode, Oommen V. Oommen
Series Title: Environmental Challenges and Solutions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42162-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42161-2Published: 23 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82514-4Published: 06 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42162-9Published: 15 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2214-2827
Series E-ISSN: 2214-2835
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 322
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Nature Conservation, Environmental Management, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice