Jodha, N.S.

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

333.76 / JOD/L