Man in the Desert: Drought, Desertification and Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Development
Bharara, L.P.
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PRODUCT DETAILS
Book ID : 1099
ISBN-10 : 81-7233-193-2 / 8172331932
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7233-193-1 / 9788172331931
Place
of Publication :
Jodhpur
Year
of Publication :
1999
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
xviii, 394p., B/W Ills., Figs., Map, Tables, Bib., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
This book synthesies, the problem of drought and desertification from social angle knowledge for sustained production and encompasses Indigenous Technical knowledge for sustained production and survival. Appliying a socio-ecological approach, the author shows how different socio-economic and caste groups adopted different adaptive strategies for survival. The book focusses on new dimensions of the problem of drought and desertfication and indiginious technical knowledge to overcome these.
