Life on the edge: sustaining agriculture and community resources in fragile environments/
N.S. Jodha
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- xxvi, 327 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- (Studies in social ecology and environmental history) .
Introduction: The Challenges and Opportunities in Fragile Resource Areas -- I. Towards Abundance -- 1. Famine Policies: How Apt? -- 2. Farmers' Strategy and Its Relevance for Drought Management -- 3. Sustainable Agriculture in Fragile Resource Zones: Technological Imperatives -- 4. Food Security in Fragile Resource Zones -- II. CPR Perspective -- 5. Common Property Resources in Crisis -- 6. Grazing Lands and Biomass Management in Western Rajasthan: Micro-level Field Evidence -- 7. Biophysical and Social Stresses on Common Property Resources -- III. Ecosystem Revival -- 8. Biodiversity Management in Agricultural Landscapes -- 9. Reviving the Social System-Ecosystem Links in the Himalayas -- 10. Poverty and Environmental Resource Degradation: Alternative Explanation and Possible Solutions -- 11. Globalization: Repercussions for Fragile Ecosystems and Society.
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Sustainable development Agriculture--Environmental aspects Hill farming