Bio-Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development in North East India : Status, Vision and Challenges
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Environmental quality and economic growth: some empirical evidences/Amrita Sengupta (Basu) and M. Mishra. 2. An analysis of the underdevelopment of Nehbandan region in Iran/Majid Yasouri. 3. Agro-processing industries: problems and prospects for sustainable development/Pardeep S. Shehrawat. 4. SARD-M: horticulture is an economically viable and environmentally sustainable driver of socio-economic development in mountainous Sikkim/J.R. Subba. 5. Ingenious agricultural heritage systems and sustainable agricultural ecosystems management in Sikkim/J.R. Subba. 6. Vermitech - an effective technology of organic waste management/A.A. Ansari. 7. Mainstreaming climate change concerns in community based forest management/Pradeep Kumar. 8. Biodiversity, cultural diversity and sustainable development in North East India/Archana Godbole and Jayant Sarnaik. 9. Sacred values and biodiversity conservation around Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradesh/R. Sarmah, A. Arunachalam and N. Upadhyay. 10. Biodiversity as an agent of sustainable rural livelihoods in Sikkim Himalayas/Pradeep Kumar. 11. Fog water collection in the Northeast India: problems and prospects/Robert Schemenauer and Ajeya Jha. 12. Bamboo species of North East India: status, challenges and vision/Sangeeta Jha, Ajeya Jha and Vandana Suhag. 13. Sustaining the flow of new breed of entrepreneurs from the region: a study of women entrepreneurs in Sikkim/H.G. Joshi. 14. Mobile and stationary applications of fuel-cell systems/S.N. Kulkarni and M. Eswaramoorthi. 15. Ecotourism in Sikkim: principles, achievements, prospects and potential problems/Jonas Zwitserlood. 16. Growth restriction of SMEs located in remote, landlocked areas: a North East India perspective/Laikangbam Dorendro Singh. 17. Incubation of grassroots innovations for sustainable regional development: an experience with North East India/C.B. Vijaya Vittala and Anand Prakash Tiwary. 18. A comparative study of the spread of ICT in the backward states of India with special reference to North Eastern States/Laikangbam Dorendro Singh. 19. Look East Policy and the North East Region: a synergistic perspective for sustainable development/Anindita Adhikary (Bora), Bedanta Bora and Sonia Munjal. 20. Gender and development: from the perspective of Northeast India/Michele Luxon and Ajeya Jha. 21. The digital divide: who, how and where?/Philip Benchaur. Contributors. Index.
"The North-Eastern States of India are ethnically and culturally very rich and distinct from the rest of the country. They are inhabited by a majority of the indigenous communities and have a variety of ecosystems. These groups have their own ancient traditional systems of using and managing the natural resources on a sustainable basis. But, unfortunately, in the name of development, their bio-cultural diversity is deteriorated day-by-day. To explore ways to address this problem, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology organized a conference, and this book is the collection of the updated version of the papers presented at the conference.
The contributors deliberate on linkage between environmental quality and economic growth, role of agro-processing industries in sustainable development, economic viability of horticulture, indigenous agricultural systems, vermitech, and mainstreaming of climate change through community-based forest management. They also deal with sacred values and bio-diversity conservation, sustainable rural livelihoods, fog-water harvesting, women entrepreneurship, applications of fuel-cell systems, ecotourism and gender perspective of development in the region."
