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  • 1
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    In the dominion of artefacts (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Environment and development economics 1 (1996), S. 356-359 
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    ISSN: 1355-770X
    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Evolutionary biology is above all concerned with the way life on earth and its setting change over time. The problem posed by Daily and Ehrlich, of how humans, the myriads of organisms that humans carry around in their bodies and the stage on which they interact have been changing over time, may then be viewed as one of the concerns of this discipline.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X00000681
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    Ecology of a pastoral caste: Gavli Dhangars of peninsular India (1982)
    Springer
    Human ecology 10 (1982), S. 107-143 
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    ISSN: 1572-9915
    Keywords: pastoralism ; ecology and development ; malarial history ; shifting cultivation ; ecological history
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Ethnic Sciences
    Notes: Abstract The Gavlis are a pastoral caste of the forested hill tracts of India 's Western Ghats region. This paper examines their shift under British colonial rule from buffalo-keepers to goatherds to cultivators of increasingly marginal hill tracts, the context of forest exploitation and malaria control as well as more recent dairy development programs of the Indian government. It concludes that if present trends continue Gavlis everywhere will follow the same progression, eventually becoming landless migrants.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01531107
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    On the dynamics of the hanuman langur populations of jodhpur (Rajasthan, India) (1981)
    Springer
    Primates 22 (1981), S. 182-191 
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    ISSN: 0032-8332
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The city of Jodhpur (26°18′N, 73°8′E) supports a population of about 900 hanuman langurs (Presbytis entellus) divided into 24 bisexual troops and 12 all-male bands in an area of 60 km2. This population has been censused from 1968 to 1978. Over this period the population of bisexual troops has remained stable around 700, while the population of all-male bands has increased from 160 to 230 individuals. The bisexual troops show a tendency towards a reduction in population growth rate with increasing troop size, with troops over 50–60 tending to split. Very small troops may grow by large scale immigration. Although a number of male changes and mortality through infanticide have been recorded, there is no evidence of a regular periodicity in the occurrence of initial, growth and mature phases in the life history of a bisexual troop. Unlike the bisexual troops, the all-male bands show no tendency towards a reduction in growth rate with the increase in band size, but show a continuous growth of band size over the study period. Langurs of Jodhpur rely heavily on cultivated fields for their sustenance. This cultivation has been on increase over the study period, and since the males invade cultivation more readily, they may have been able to take fuller advantage of these increasing resources and affect a population increase that has not been possible for the bisexual troops.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02382609
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    CARBON FLOW IN INDIAN FORESTS (1997)
    Springer
    Climatic change 35 (1997), S. 297-320 
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    ISSN: 1573-1480
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: Abstract The present study estimates the net emission of carbon from the forest sector in India. For the reference year (1986), the gross emission from deforestation in that year, plus committed emissions from deforestation in the preceding years, is estimated to be 64 × 106 t of C. The carbon sequestration (or net woody biomass accumulation in trees for long-term storage) from the area brought under tree plantations and the existing forest area under forest succession is estimated to offset the gross carbon emission in India, leading to no net emissions of carbon from the forest sector. Medium-term projections for India (for the year 2011) show that under a ‘business as usual’ scenario at current rates of afforestation, projected carbon emissions would continue to be balanced by sequestration.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005303405404
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    People's Biodiversity Registers: Lessons Learnt (2000)
    Springer
    Environment, development and sustainability 2 (2000), S. 323-332 
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    ISSN: 1573-2975
    Keywords: biodiversity ; information system ; folk knowledge ; participatory appraisal ; benefit sharing ; CBD ; co-management ; PBR
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Sociology
    Notes: Abstract People's Biodiversity Registers (PBR) document folk knowledge of status, uses, history, ongoing changes and forces driving changes in biodiversity resources, gainers and losers in these processes and people's perceptions of how these resources should be managed. A number of PBRs have been prepared in different parts of India beginning 1995 through initiatives of NGOs and educational institutions working with local communities and village councils. These attempts have been motivated by a desire to promote decentralised systems of management of natural resources and to create the basis for equitable sharing of benefits of commercial utilisation of folk knowledge of uses of biodiversity. The documents bring together important locality specific information on biodiversity resources and ecological processes affecting them. They lead to recognition of conservation oriented local practices such as protection of sacred groves. They help mobilise local communities to prudently manage local biodiversity resources in ways that would promote social justice. It is however important to recognise that not all folk knowledge may be valid, nor all folk practices wise, and to create systems of careful assessment of the material. There are many encouraging signs globally, as well as within India, such as the coming in force of the Convention on Biological Diversity, forces promoting decentralised democratic systems of governance and institutions of co-management of natural resources which suggest that programmes like PBR will have an important role to play in promoting conservation, sustainable use and equitable sharing of benefits of biodiversity resources in the coming decades.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1011438729881
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    Minireviews: Exploring the Basic Ecological Unit: Ecosystem-like Concepts in Traditional Societies (1998)
    Springer
    Ecosystems 1 (1998), S. 409-415 
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    ISSN: 1435-0629
    Keywords: Key words: traditional ecological knowledge; human ecology; ecological anthropology; ecosystem; watershed.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: ABSTRACT Ancient conceptualizations of ecosystems exist in several Amerindian, Asia-Pacific, European, and African cultures. The rediscovery by scientists of ecosystem-like concepts among traditional peoples has been important in the appreciation of traditional ecological knowledge among ecologists, anthropologists, and interdisciplinary scholars. Two key characteristics of these systems are that (a) the unit of nature is often defined in terms of a geographical boundary, such as a watershed, and (b) abiotic components, plants, animals, and humans within this unit are considered to be interlinked. Many traditional ecological knowledge systems are compatible with the emerging view of ecosystems as unpredictable and uncontrollable, and of ecosystem processes as nonlinear, multiequilibrium, and full of surprises. Traditional knowledge may complement scientific knowledge by providing practical experience in living within ecosystems and responding to ecosystem change. However, the “language” of traditional ecology is different from the scientific and usually includes metaphorical imagery and spiritual expression, signifying differences in context, motive, and conceptual underpinnings.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100219900034
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