Ecology and Man in the HimalayasA. K. Kapoor, Satwanti Kapoor M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd., 1994 - 250 pagini The present volume emphasizes the importance of studying the structure and functioning of ecological systems and their mode of reaction on exposure to human intervention in the Himalayas. It stresses the impact of man on his environment and vice-versa, considered in the areas of biological and adaptative entity, as well as a social, cultural and economic being. |
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21 | 3 |
The HimalayasAn EcoAnthropological Perspective | 21 |
Ecology and Culture in the Himalayas | 27 |
Ecology and Transhumance in the Himalaya | 33 |
Past | 49 |
Ecology and Tribals in Central Himalaya | 69 |
A Study of Their Social Ethnic EthnoBotanical | 91 |
Depleting Forest Resources in UP Himalaya | 115 |
ReligioCultural Ecological Approach for Interpreting | 133 |
Ecology and Development Among Tribals of Tripura | 145 |
Soil Organic Matter Status of Garhwal Himalaya | 169 |
Shifting Cultivation and Mycorrhizal Loss in the Forest | 193 |
Watershed Management and Development in | 207 |
Conservation of Essential Natural Resources in | 225 |
Religious Tourism and Rural Development | 235 |
Environment and Tribal Handicrafts in the Himalayas | 125 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
afforestation Almora Alpine Anthropology Anwals AREA UNDER FOREST Arunachal Pradesh Aspartic acid Badri Bhabhar Bhotias cent centres Chamoli chir climate conservation Darjeeling Dehra Dun Delhi density deodar district ecological balance economic ecosystem environment environmental families fodder forest area Forest Department fuel wood Garhwal Himalaya Glutamic acid grazing groups Gujjar Gumti River Gupta high altitude hills Himachal Pradesh Himalayan region Himalayas human humic acids important increase India inhabitants irrigation jhuming kail Kapoor km² Kumaon Ladakhis large number Meghalaya migration Mizoram mountain mycorrhizal Nainital natural oak and kharsu organic matter oustee Pithoragarh Pithoragarh district population growth production programmes Raha rainfall Rajis range Reangs religious rural season semecarpifolia shifting cultivation Sikkim Singh slopes social soil erosion species spores spruce Table Tarai and Bhabhar Tehri Threonine timber tourist trade transhumant trees tribal handicrafts tribes Tripura upper catchment Uttarakhand Uttarkashi valleys vegetation villages watershed management zone
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