Interaction of Biodiversity and Economic Welfare - A Case Study from the Himalayas of India

Nautiyal, Sunil; Rajan, K. S.; Shibasaki, Ryosuke

doi:10.3808/jei.200500061

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“…This is one such socio-cultural activity of the Central Himalayan people through they make efforts to keep conserving the traditional crops/landraces/genetic resources which seems to be in jeopardy due to variety of factors. In this endeavor empirical evidences , Palni et al, 1998Maikhuri et al, 2000, Maikhuri et al, 2001Nautiyal et al, 2003;Nautiyal et al, 2005;Bisht et al, 2006) supports that the diversity of traditional livestock based farming system in fragile Himalayan landscape would be difficult to conserve without conserving the socio-cultural values of the people living in the region along with proper documentation of traditional ecological knowledge pertaining to local available biological resources. The factors responsible for decline in traditional crop diversity/landraces (such as socio-economic, ecological and policy related issues), the main socio-economic factors responsible for erosion of traditional crop diversity/ landraces/germplasm are presented in Table 1.…”

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The Role of Cultural Values in Agrobiodiversity Conservation: A Case Study from Uttarakhand, Himalaya

Nautiyal¹,

Bisht

Rao

et al. 2008

Journal of Human Ecology

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The Role of Cultural Values in Agrobiodiversity Conservation: A Case Study from Uttarakhand, Himalaya

Nautiyal¹,

Bisht

Rao

et al. 2008

Journal of Human Ecology

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“…The methodology pertaining to the study is testified and described in detail by Nautiyal (1998), Maikhuri et al (2000aMaikhuri et al ( , 2001, Nautiyal et al (2001Nautiyal et al ( , 2003Nautiyal et al ( , 2005Nautiyal et al ( , 2007, Rao et al (2005), and Nautiyal and Nidamanuri (2010).…”

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Can conservation and development interventions in the Indian Central Himalaya ensure environmental sustainability? A socioecological evaluation

Nautiyal

2011

Sustain Sci

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In biodiversity-rich areas, both conservation and socioeconomic development are at the core of discussions among various stakeholders, such as local people, policymakers, conservationists, resource management professionals, economists, researchers/scientists, and so forth. Various innovations are being provided that aim at promoting both improved livelihood for the people and the conservation and management of natural resources in the Central Himalaya of India. Many studies point out the factors responsible for the tremendous decline of natural resources and also how they have affected the local people's livelihood options. In this context, the current study was undertaken to evaluate the potential of various solutions/innovations that are being implemented in the Himalayas of India. Unfortunately, only a few are found to be successful in both conservation and sustainable livelihood development. This study reveals that people are still looking for more viable solutions that could help them improve their lifestyle, as well as facilitating ecosystem conservation and supporting existing biodiversity. Based on the present study, it is argued that an in-depth empirical study of any region is a necessary process prior to offering solutions to achieve the desired goals, as considered by development agencies and policy-planners.

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“…The decision-making behavior of households has a large influence on economical and ecological processes (Nelissen 1991;Klevmarken 1983;Nautiyal et al 2005).…”

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Natural resource management in a protected area of the Indian Himalayas: a modeling approach for anthropogenic interactions on ecosystem

Nautiyal¹,

Kaechele²

2008

Environ Monit Assess

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The concept of ecosystem conservation as a broad theme came into existence during the 1970s under the Man and Biosphere Programme (MAB) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Indian Government followed this approach and chose the method to segregate the landscape for conservation of the ecosystem as well as for the development of the local economy and its people. We have examined the effect of this policy and concurrently developed a theoretical modeling approach to understand how human behavior is changing under shifting political, socioeconomic and environmental conditions. A specific focus has been on how the landscape is changing in the mountains of the Indian Himalayan region where about 10% of the total geographical area is converted into protected landscape for conservation of biodiversity. For local people living in the Himalayan mountains in India, agriculture is the main land use activity and is strongly linked to the forests in providing sustainability. There are several branches in the rural ecosystems where the local people's economy was centered. These include agriculture, animal husbandry, medicinal and aromatic plants cultivation, forest resource collection, tourism and other occupations. The greatest proportion of the population was engaged in the agriculture sector, whose contribution is high in the rural economy (61%); followed by animal husbandry (19%), forest resource collection for economic gain (18%), and medicinal and aromatic plants cultivation (1.5%). However, three decades ago the animal husbandry branch of the rural ecosystem was contributing the maximum share towards rural household income (40%) followed by tourism (35.2%), and lastly agriculture (14%). The desire of farmers to secure the optimum output from agricultural land use has resulted in an increase for resource collection from the forests. The people's perception (n = 1,648) regarding overall changes occurring in the region was varied and most showed that the current trend within rural ecosystems has emerged because of the implementation of conservation policies/creation of national park and biosphere reserve (80%), followed by limitation (22%), climate (20%), population growth (7%), national economy (10%) and least by socioeconomic change (5%). The theoretical agent model developed here draws attention to agent/farmer behavior and land resource use for his livelihood in the temporal dimension. The current study would be helpful to introduce new approaches for the development of the methodological and theoretical aspects associated with the complex human and ecosystem interactions in the Himalayan mountains for sustainable landscape development.

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Interaction of Biodiversity and Economic Welfare - A Case Study from the Himalayas of India

Cited by 25 publications

References 21 publications

The Role of Cultural Values in Agrobiodiversity Conservation: A Case Study from Uttarakhand, Himalaya

The Role of Cultural Values in Agrobiodiversity Conservation: A Case Study from Uttarakhand, Himalaya

Can conservation and development interventions in the Indian Central Himalaya ensure environmental sustainability? A socioecological evaluation

Natural resource management in a protected area of the Indian Himalayas: a modeling approach for anthropogenic interactions on ecosystem

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