Overview
- A comprehensive repository of indigenous knowledge and practices on water use and conservation behavior
- Explores the linkages and dynamics of human-water ecosystem interactions
- Shows the importance of mainstreaming indigenous knowledge and practices into water governance and decision making
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Religious, Cultural and Spiritual Values of Water
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Indigenous and Local Water Practices
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About this book
With increasing emphasis on the inclusion of indigenous and local knowledge into natural resource governance and conservation by international agencies like the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the proposed book will significantly contribute to the existing knowledge base and demonstrate the importance of mainstreaming indigenous water knowledge and practices into water governance and decision making. The UN SDGs, recognizing the significance of indigenous knowledge systems, emphasized its inclusion in most aspects and principles of SDGs. Apart from direct links with SDGs like zero hunger (SDG 2), no poverty (SDG 1), and climate action (SDG 13), indigenous and local knowledge system is considered to be directly connected to clean water and sanitation (SDG 6). The book will be useful to researchers and students in the field of indigenous knowledge and education, water governance, community-level planning, and water sustainability. The book can be referred to for postgraduate courses and beyond, as well as policymakers, conservationists, non-governmental organizations, development practitioners, and local government officials.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta is a senior policy researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). His research interests are environmental scenario planning, spatial quantification of ecosystem services, indigenous and local knowledge systems, and community-based conservation. He served as Lead Author (LA) for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Asia-Pacific Regional Assessment Report as well as IPBES assessment on Sustainable Use of Wild Species (2018-22). Dr. Dasgupta authored/co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in reputed international journals on the topic related to the mapping and monitoring of ecosystem services, landscape conservation, Ecosystem and natural resource management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indigenous and Local Water Knowledge, Values and Practices
Editors: Mrittika Basu, Rajarshi DasGupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9406-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9405-0Published: 02 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-9408-1Published: 03 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-9406-7Published: 01 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 326
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Water, general, Environmental Geography, Environment, general, Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Religious Studies, general