Natural Resource Degradation and Human-Nature Wellbeing

1. Front Matter

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2. Setting the Context

   • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Tanjila Afrin, Mohammad Saeed Islam

   Pages 1-35

3. Managing Natural Resources Sustainably: Market and Non-market Approaches

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   Pages 37-74

4. Biodiversity Resources: Degradation, Restoration and Sustainable Conservation

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   Pages 75-146

5. Water Resources: Provision, Distribution and Sustainable Production

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   Pages 147-254

6. Climate Change: Equity and Sustainability

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   Pages 255-340

7. Conclusions: Sustainable Transformative Pathways

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   Pages 341-355

The book addresses the gaps in the body of knowledge from two grounds. Firstly, it adds value through explaining the dynamics of natural resource governance by focusing on the particular arenas of biodiversity resources, water resources and climate change in developing country context. Secondly, it critically scrutinizes the market-centric perspectives on one hand and combines political economy questions that are generally overlooked in discussions of current resource governance framework, on the other. It develops a new framework to examine the reasons behind the degradations of natural resources to offer sustainable solutions to the problems. It shows that the natural resources have been exploited beyond sustainable limits due to the structural rigidities, embedded in, and reproduced by, fragile institutions and unequal power-sharing arrangements under the market-centric economic system.  The book formulates a new understanding of sustainability in case of usage and management of natural resources by incorporating the idea of human sociality. It highlights the importance of the well-being of nature, and human beings must go side by side; one without the other is not a sustainable option.  The book contains key learnings for scholars and researchers working in the field of development studies who wish to gain a deeper understanding on the sustainable natural resource governance specifically in the contexts of developing countries. For policymakers and policy advocates, the book serves as the groundwork on policies regarding biodiversity resources, water resources, and climate change, specific to the context of developing countries, providing more relevant contents in terms of laying out justification for policy objectives.

• Natural Resource Governance
• Natural Resources Economics
• Natural Resource Management
• Development and Natural Resource Conservation
• Biodiversity Economics
• Climate Change Economics
• Traditional Knowledge
• Human Sociality

• Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

• Department of Development Studies, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Tanjila Afrin, Mohammad Saeed Islam

Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently holding the charge of the Chairman of the Department. He is the Founder-Chairperson of Unnayan Onneshan—a Dhaka based multidisciplinary think-tank, Vice Chairperson of IUCN Asia Regional Members Committee and Chairperson of IUCN National Committee of Bangladesh. His latest books are: Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Developing Countries: State, Citizenship and Transformation (Routledge); State Building and Social Policies in Developing Countries: The Political Economy of Development (Routledge); Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries (Purdue University Press); and Numbers and Narratives in Bangladesh’s Economic Development (Palgrave Macmillan). He edited Sundarbans and Its Ecosystem Services: Traditional Knowledge, Customary Sustainable Use and Community Based Innovation (Palgrave Macmillan) and co-edited COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Response, Rights & Resilience (University Press Ltd).


Tanjila Afrin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Development Studies, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Bangladesh. Her research focuses on the political economy of natural resource governance, environment and development, biodiversity conservation, climate change, poverty and inequality, livelihoods, and governance. 


Mohammad Saeed Islam is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Development Studies, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Bangladesh. His areas of research interest are environmental and resource economics, water economics and policy, environmental protest, agriculture and rural development, poverty and inequality, and welfare economics.