The Rhinoceros of South Asia
The Rhinoceros of South Asia

Author: Kees Rookmaaker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-06-12

Total Pages: 891

ISBN-13: 9004691545

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The rhinoceros is an iconic animal. Three species once inhabited South Asia, two of which disappeared over a century ago. This survey aims to reconstruct the historical distribution of these large mammals resulting in new maps showing the extent of their occurrences. Thousands of sources varied in time and nature are used to study the interactions between man and rhinoceros. The text is supported by over 700 illustrations and 38 maps showing the importance of the rhinoceros in the scientific and cultural fabric of Asia and beyond.

People and Biodiversity Policies Impacts, Issues and Strategies for Policy Action
People and Biodiversity Policies Impacts, Issues and Strategies for Policy Action

Author: Bagnoli Philip

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2008-05-14

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 926403434X

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This book is designed to help policy makers put together strategies for anticipating distributive impacts of biodiversity policy across different groups; and for selecting processes and instruments that manage distributive impacts without compromising conservation and use objectives.

Approaches to Sustainable Development
Approaches to Sustainable Development

Author: Richard M. Auty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-24

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1317938844

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A definition of sustainable development is that of the Brundtland Commission - "...development which meets the needs of the current generation without jeopardizing the needs of future generations". This volume seeks to analyze the economic basis for this definition, and to look at the critiques of the economic approach - which have their basis in growing disquiet over the role of the productive normative science driving technological change and economic transformation. The discussion is followed by studies of the application of the criteria of sustainability to rural problems in South Asia, Kenya, Nepal, and Latin America and to urban/industrial problems in Jamaica, Chile and Vietnam.

Antelopes
Antelopes

Author: David P. Mallon

Publisher: IUCN

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9782831705941

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Antelope herds numbering in the tens of thousands formerly occurred across the steppes and semideserts of Eurasia and India, but these have nearly all been reduced to fractions of their earlier size; antelope populations are now fragmented across the region, and during recent decades several species have disappeared altogether. Threats include hunting, loss of habitat, population fragmentation, inadequate protected area coverage, poorly-developed administrative structures, under-resourcing of conservation programmes, and lack of enforcement of existing legislation. Rising human population growth and economic development constantly increases pressure on land and natural resources. There is a consequent need for integrated rural development, and community-based conservation projects, which have the full participation of local people at the planning and execution stages.This publication, Part 4 of the Global Antelope Survey, covers 37 countries in the region, and actions to conserve antelope populations are listed in each country report.