Indigenous People and Nature

Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability

Uday Chatterjee, Anil Kashyap, Mark Everard, Gopal Krishna Panda, Dinabandhu Mahata, Kashyap

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780323916035
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323916042
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Geografia umana

Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability examines today's environmental challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions around the globe. Organized in four parts, the book describes the foundations of human geography and its current research challenges, the intersections between environment and cultural diversity, addressing various type of ecosystem services and their interaction with the environment, the impacts of sustainability practices used by indigenous culture on the ecosystem, and conservation ecology and environment management. Using theoretical and applied insights from local communities around the world, this book helps geographers, demographers, environmentalists, economists, sociologists and urban planners tackle today's environmental problems from new perspectives. - Includes in-depth case studies across different geographic spaces - Contains contributions from a range of young to eminent scholars, researchers and policymakers - Highlights new insights from social science, environmental science and sustainable development - Synthesizes research on society, ecology and technology with sustainability, all in a single resource

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Section I: Introduction: structural view and distribution of indigenous population
• Section II: Intersection between environment and cultural diversity
• Section III: Indigenous and traditional culture impact on the ecosystem and indigenous population
• Section IV: Indigenous population, ecology conservation, potentiality, and technology
• Index