Environmental Management : Issues in Common Property Resources (CPRs) in India
Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgement. Abbreviations. 1. Environmental managements. 2. Conceptual framework and review of literature. 3. Macro and micro level scenario of CPRs in India. 4. Analysis of primary household survey. 5. Degradation of CPRs. 6. Policy issues relating to CPRs management. 7. Summary of findings and conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
Interface between man and nature has been widening. Interactions of myriad systems of biophysical, social, economic, political and cultural are becoming more intense and complex. Environmental issues confronting rural areas in India received less focus than it deserved. Common Property Resource (CPR) base is central to life sustenance of rural households, poor in particular. The Common Property Resources (CPRs) form a crucial part of environmental resources. Resources accessible to and collectively owned/held/managed by an identifiable community and on which no individual has exclusive property rights are called Common Property Resources (NSSO, 20000). The accessibility to resource is determined either by legal status or by convention. The rural population is general and the poor in particular depend largely on Common Property Resources (CPRs) for their life sustenance.
In the last two decades, CPRs have started to face problems of degradation and depletion both in quality and quality. The fall out of which, will jeopardize ecosystem and life sustenance of rural poor as well.
In this backdrop, the authors made an attempt to investigate the problems and prospects of CPRs at the district level through selecting each one village in Thanjavur and Pudukottai districts of Tamilnadu, India. The outcome of the study confirmed the fact that CPRs, were identified in addition to the existing categories as recorded in the literature. Differences in types ad access to resources available between dry and wet village were recorded.
Services from CPRs may also be construed as ecosystem services. Methodology of estimating the value of ecosystem services is in the offing. Policy makers need to necessarily address issues relating to CPR Policy as rural poor largely depend on CPR for life sustenance.
Interface between man and nature has been widening. Interactions of myriad systems of biophysical, social, economic, political and cultural are becoming more intense and complex. Environmental issues confronting rural areas in India received less focus than it deserved. Common Property Resource (CPR) base is central to life sustenance of rural households, poor in particular. The Common Property Resources (CPRs) form a crucial part of environmental resources. Resources accessible to and collectively owned/held/managed by an identifiable community and on which no individual has exclusive property rights are called Common Property Resources (NSSO, 20000). The accessibility to resource is determined either by legal status or by convention. The rural population is general and the poor in particular depend largely on Common Property Resources (CPRs) for their life sustenance.
In the last two decades, CPRs have started to face problems of degradation and depletion both in quality and quality. The fall out of which, will jeopardize ecosystem and life sustenance of rural poor as well.
In this backdrop, the authors made an attempt to investigate the problems and prospects of CPRs at the district level through selecting each one village in Thanjavur and Pudukottai districts of Tamilnadu, India. The outcome of the study confirmed the fact that CPRs, were identified in addition to the existing categories as recorded in the literature. Differences in types ad access to resources available between dry and wet village were recorded.
Services from CPRs may also be construed as ecosystem services. Methodology of estimating the value of ecosystem services is in the offing. Policy makers need to necessarily address issues relating to CPR Policy as rural poor largely depend on CPR for life sustenance.
