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Misleading conclusions can result from applying tools beyond the purposes for which they were designed. A range of chemical assessment systems was compared against a set of principles germane to the sustainable use of chemicals relevant to the whole societal life cycles of finished products. These principles of sustainable use included: wider dimen...
Ecosystem services provided by lowland British floodplains respectively under semi-natural conditions and converted for intensive maize production were assessed. Floodplains across lowland Britain have been extensively disconnected from river channels, depleting habitat for wildlife and other beneficial ecosystem services. Conservation measures are...
1. Mahseer (Tor spp., Cyprinidae) are iconic, large-bodied, migratory freshwater
fishes of Asian rivers. Long valued as a food source and serving other societal
roles, these fishes are severely threatened by a broad range of interacting and
escalating human impacts, including dam construction, water pollution, overexploitation,
and habitat destruct...
An article written for the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management's magazine 'Enviornment' on the challenges and failures of delivering on nutrient nuetrality in England.
With growing global demand for food, the agriculture sector worldwide is under pressure to intensify and expand, risking acceleration of negative biodiversity impacts. Agriculture is the dominant source of ammonia (NH3) emissions, which can impact biodiversity directly through dry deposition and by wet deposition following conversion to ammonium (N...
Mountains host high biological and cultural diversity, generating ecosystem services beneficial over multiple geographical scales but suffering significant vulnerabilities. A case study in Lileng village (Arunachal Pradesh, Indian north-east Himalayas) explored linkages between a community with protected tribal rights and the forest and river ecosy...
Locally nuanced community-based shallow groundwater management interventions have proven important in saline and sodic monsoonal regions. A mixed methods approach characterizes achievement of regeneration of the formerly degraded socio-ecological system of Laporiya village in the semi-arid Salt Lake region of Rajasthan state (India), with a focus o...
Agriculture is responsible for 98% of atmospheric ammonia (NH3) in Ireland, of which pigs and poultry produce 7%;with laying hens specifically contributing 0.6%. Though a small proportion of the national NH3 total emissions, the ecological impacts on sensitive sites attributed to laying hen farms can be substantial. NH3 emission monitoring was cond...
Literature review identified seven principal pathways of plastic debris entry into river systems: waste water treatment plants; combined sewer overflows; on-site wastewater treatment systems; road and rail transport systems; agriculture; industrial sources; and diffuse litter. A further category of ‘microplastics’ reflects their multiple potential...
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Recent high-profile analyses of trajectories and prognoses of ecosystem decline around the world have called for a renewed focus on embedding the values of the natural world across all areas of public policy. This paper reports the results of a UK-based deliberat...
Atmospheric ammonia poses a significant threat to biodiversity and human health. Concentrations of ammonia in the air downwind of hotspot sources, such as pig and poultry farms, are likely to negatively affect the environment. This project quantified and assessed the impact of ammonia emissions from intensive pig and poultry units in Ireland by mon...
The dispersed wetlands in the Darbhanga District of northern Bihar, India, provide a diversity of niches supporting substantial floral and faunal richness. The aquatic macrophytes of a representative range of perennial water bodies were surveyed fortnightly from June to September 2019, supported by a market survey undertaken with local stakeholders...
Native fish species provide significant ecosystem services, including as food (provisioning services), as organisms with specific cultural and spiritual importance (cultural services), and contributions to supporting and regulatory services across the Indian Himalayan biodiversity hotspot. Fisheries in the Himalayan midhills and foothills, includin...
This is a practical guidance manual for the application of the Rapid Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Services (RAWES) approach. The manual was developed in collabortion with the Ramsar Regional Centre - East Asia (RRC-EA).
In recent weeks, people all over the world have been settling into a ‘new normal’ of restricted mobility, online working, social distancing and enhanced hand hygiene. As part of the global fight against the spread of COVID-19 (the illness caused by SARS-CoV-2), we are repeatedly reminded by public health authorities that frequent and thorough hand-...
Addressing socio-ecological linkages is essential for diagnosing and proposing solutions to complex sustainability challenges, such as river-basin management, climate adaptation and broader sustainability problems. ‘Who?’ is integral to an inclusive approach, ‘What?’ dimensions of supportive ecosystems are included, and ‘How much?’ of the value of...
There is rising international concern about the zoonotic origins of many global pandemics. Increasing human-animal interactions are perceived as driving factors in pathogen transfer, emphasising the close relationships between human, animal and environmental health. Contemporary livelihood and market patterns tend to degrade ecosystems and their se...
Anthropogenic stressors in the Indian Himalayan biodiversity hotspot over recent decades have taken a toll on otter populations. Low public awareness and a lack of routine monitoring data hamper conservation strategies. Social media has the potential to generate both positive and negative perceptions about otter species among target stakeholder gro...
Mahseer (Tor) fish species are critical components of locally adapted freshwater food webs across the Indian Himalayan biodiversity hotspot; however, multiple human stressors compounded by climate change have significantly depleted their populations over recent decades. Mahseer species are now considered locally vulnerable or endangered in many reg...
Fish passes are structures (natural or manmade) bypassing barriers (e.g., dams), enabling satisfactory movement of migratory fish species. Reestablishment of fish passage, including facilitating overcoming barriers presented by impoundments or restoration of defunct structures, is attracting interest among scientists and policymakers as a mechanism...
Hybridization of ‘green’ and engineered infrastructure, informed by protecting or restoring catchment processes, can resolve interconnected demands on catchment ecosystems, potentially also reversing historic degradation of socio-ecological systems. Pressures are acute in water-scarce, developing regions with episodic rainfall, exacerbated by histo...
The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), smooth‐coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata), and Asian small‐clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) have all been reported previously from the Indian state of Uttarakhand. However, little information is available about their current distribution in a mountainous region that is subject to increasing human‐induced stressors...
Chapter 2, Nature’s Sinking Ark, outlines some of the hard realities of the modern world and the prognoses for eroding natural capital. The concept of socio-ecological systems, central to this understanding, defines the systemic interdependencies between people and other aspects of natural systems. Socio-ecological systems can be in a cycle of degr...
Chapter 4, Our Conjoined Future, draws upon ‘regenerative landscape’ case studies to emphasise the need for a fully systemic approach to solutions that optimise outcomes for all ecosystem services and their associated beneficiaries, rather than perpetuating current narrow exploitation patterns that favour the few yet overlook the many. The chapter...
Chapter 6, Epilogue: Rebuilding the Earth—Yes, We Can! emphasises that this is all about culture change, addressed with the optimism that regenerative change is already happening in scattered instances across the world. These exemplars can teach us much about how to rethink our decisions at international, national, state and right down to highly lo...
Chapter 5, A Systemic Decision-Support Framework, establishes key and contextual questions related to each component of STEEP as a framework to guide decision-making at all scales on a systemically connected basis. This framework is proposed to inform decision-making from a systemic context in pursuit of genuinely sustainable, resource-conserving a...
Chapter 3, Rebuilding the Ark, embarks on a global journey, collating case studies from across the world to illustrate and characterise instances where people have collaborated to not merely halt damage to supporting ecosystems but to restore them as a foundation for reversing cycles of degradation. These ‘regenerative landscapes’—recovering or pro...
Recent work and publications concerning sustainable water stewardship in Rajasthan (India) highlight how contemporary challenges are eroding traditional, communal approaches to water stewardship through mechanised extraction beyond the renewable capacities of ecosystems. Our work is focused on developing a formal ontology for modelling the knowledg...
Intense campaigning pressure on the UK polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sector up to the late 1990s forced strategic engagement with sustainable development. Simplified outcomes from a detailed, consensus‐based analysis by science‐based NGO The Natural Step (TNS) took the form of five TNS sustainability challenges for PVC published in 2000. UK manufacturin...
Arid and semi-arid regions of central India receive scarce and episodic precipitation during the short monsoon season, and also experience substantial evaporation. Traditional and innovative water harvesting and governance practices improve water stewardship, or abate some impacts of intensive mechanised water extraction. However, significant numbe...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya is a biodiversity hotspot subject to multiple anthropogenic stressors, including hydropower plants, pollution, deforestation and wildlife poaching, in addition to changing climate. Bird photography tourism, as a locally important element of avitourism, has the potential to integrate sustainable development and wildlife conse...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya is a biodiversity hotspot subject to multiple anthropogenic stressors, including hydropower plants, pollution, deforestation and wildlife poaching, in addition to changing climate. Bird photography tourism, as a locally important element of avitourism, has the potential to integrate sustainable development and wildlife conse...
PVC compounds contain additives necessary for processing and stability, and to modify the plastic's properties. The Europe‐wide VinylPlus® voluntary commitment includes a challenge to make progress toward sustainable use of additives. Additive Sustainability Footprint (ASF) was developed to assess sustainable use of additives across the whole socie...
The mahseer fishes (Tor spp.) represent an iconic genus of large-bodied species of the Cyprinidae family. Across the 16 recognised species in the genus, individual fish can attain weights over 50 kg, resulting in some species being considered as premier sport fishes. Tor species also generally have high religious and cultural significance throughou...
A structured literature review using the search term 'ecosystem services' found few relevant studies relating to three contrasting wetlands in West Bengal: the unpopulated Sudhanyakhali Island in the Sundarbans National Park, the populated Gosaba Island separated from Sudhanyakhali Island by a narrow channel, and the East Kolkata Wetland (EKW). Sub...
The mahseer fishes (Tor spp.) represent an iconic genus of large-bodied species of the Cyprini-dae family. Across the 16 recognised species in the genus, individual fish can attain weights over 50 kg, resulting in some species being considered as premier sport fishes. Tor species also generally have high religious and cultural significance througho...
The Millennium Development Goal target 7c, to halve the proportion of the global population without access to safe drinking water by 2015, is the first international drinking water target ever met. Understanding how this was achieved is critical to replicating success.
DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FREE from http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10306. The aim of this study was to provide a simple, cost-effective, risk-based map of terrestrial areas in Ireland where environmental quality may be at risk from atmospheric ammonia. This risk-based approach identifies Natura 2000 sites in Ireland at risk from agricultural atmospheric amm...
• The inherently pro‐conservation and humane Buddhist practice of ‘live release’, entailing the release into the wild of creatures destined for slaughter, poses potentially significant conservation consequences if inappropriate, invasive species are procured for release.
• This article collates evidence, citing one legal case and other examples, ab...
In a previous series of papers (Sutherland, Dicks, Everard, & Geneletti, 2018), we summarise the use of a range of social science methods in conservation decision‐making. Moon et al. (2008) claim that the special feature risks narrowing the scope of social science research and suggest that we presented a limited perspective on the field. They there...
Mountains host high biological and cultural diversity, generating ecosystem services providing benefits over multiple scales but also suffering significant poverty and vulnerabilities. Case studies in two contrasting village communities in the Indian Middle Himalayas explore linkages between people and adjacent forest and river ecosystems. Intervie...
The need to adapt human resource demands to the renewable capacities of ecosystems is widely acknowledged and has been transposed into multiple international and national commitments and strategies. This need is intensified by the contemporary öfull world’ and increasing human numbers, urbanisation and climate change. However, resource exploitation...
Climate regulation services provided by tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEF), a threatened habitat of India's Coromandel Coast, appear significant due to high carbon assimilation rates. International markets for climate regulation represent an ‘anchor service’ potentially promoting TDEF restoration, co-beneficially generating multiple linked ecosys...
Nepal's predominantly rural population depends on the ecosystem services of heterogeneous mountainous landscapes that are degrading under changing climate and development pressures. Invasive alien plants (IAPs) compound threats to ecosystem services including water resource security from mid-hill springs, though implications for Nepal's water resou...
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This paper provides a high-level assessment of the causes and impacts of air pollution and its management through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through a literature review and expert assessment process the impact of air pollution as a barrier to achieving the SDGs is considered. The enabling contribution of ai...
The central area of the Coromandel Coast, southeastern India, has been subject to a very long history of human habitation and land use change, substantially reducing the coverage of native forest. There are polarised views about definitive characteristics of native tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEF), albeit agreement that the habitat type is loca...
Supporting services comprise ecosystem services necessary for maintenance of ecosystem integrity, functioning, and resilience and for the production of all other ecosystem services. They differ from provisioning, regulating, and cultural ser- vices in that their impacts on people are often indirect or occur over a very long time. Although not direc...
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a formal process used to predict environmental consequences, which may be positive or negative, of a plan, policy, program, or project prior to approval. The International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) defines an environmental impact assessment as "..the process of identifying, predicting, evaluat...
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment classification of ecosystem services comprised four major categories: Provisioning services, regulatory services, cultural services, and supporting services. Regulatory services are defined by the Millennium Assessment as ecosystem processes "that affect climate, floods, disease, wastes, and water quality". Cumul...
Since 2010, there has been increasing international interest and activity around "the nexus." The most common articulation of "the nexus" is recognition of the interlinked issues of water, food and energy (including the challenges of a changing climate). This is often considered in the context of emancipation of the "bottom billion" of the world's...
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Dear, Prof. /Dr./Scientist/Academician/Researcher/Research Scholar
Greetings from India,
ELSEVIER one of the world’s leading scientific publishing companies has accepted our proposal to write a Multi-Authors Contributed book titled “INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND NATURE: INSIGHTS FOR SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY.”
It will be published in ELSEVIER
With your research expertise, I believe your contribution to this book would be of great value to the project’s success. We cordially invite you to contribute a unique book by writing a chapter in different regions of the World.
Important deadlines and other information
Last date of submission of chapter title with author/authors information email and contact no 31 December 2020
Confirmation for the next phase 15 January 2021
Last date of submission of full paper 31 May 2021
Submission Email udayelsevier@gmail.com
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It will be published in an edited book by Elsevier Publishing House (Publisher)
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2. Elsevier publisher to provide each corresponding author with one electronic copy (free of cost).
3. Worldwide circulation through Elsevier Science Direct (Scopus Indexed) website.
Contents/Theme
Section Chapters Contents/Theme
Section-I Introduction: Structural View and Distribution of Indigenous Population
Chapter-I The Concept and Approaches of Indigenous Population and Sustainability-A New Paradigm
Chapter-II Structural View of Indigenous Population
Chapter-III Ethno-Ecological Distribution of Population
Chapter-IV Livelihood, Issues and Challenges of Indigenous People
Section-II Intersection Between Environment and Cultural Diversity
Chapter-V Environment and Traditional Culture of Indigenous People
Chapter-VI Interdependence Between Nature and Indigenous People
Chapter-VII Cultural Diversity & Social-Ecological Systems of Indigenous People
Chapter-VIII Self-Sufficiency in Food and Farming
Section-III
Impact of Indigenous and Traditional Culture on the Ecosystem and Indigenous People
Chapter-IX Human Activities on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development
Chapter-X Ancient Knowledge Impact on the Ecosystem and Indigenous Population
Chapter-XI Subsequent Changes in Habitat and Biodiversity and Sustainability
Section-IV
Conservation Ecology and Potentiality of Indigenous Population
Chapter-XII Nature Conservation & Forest Dwellers
Chapter-XII Ethno Medicine and Indigenous Population
Chapter-XIV Indigenous Population Mapping and Sustainable use of Natural Resources
Section-V Chapter-XV Conclusions
Key Points for Full Paper:
1) Each section will consist of (i) Introduction, (ii) Materials and methods, (iii) Results and Discussion (v) Conclusion, and (vi) References.
2) Each article may be about 15-20 pages with roughly 7,000-8,000 words.
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3. Dr. Mark Everard (Email:Mark.Everard@uwe.ac.uk)
4. Dr. Gopal Krishna Panda (Emeritus Professor)
(Email: gopalkrishna_panda@yahoo.co.uk, +91-6370605972)
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To build the research base around "off grid water systems" that can help communities in the Global South to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 - "Clean Water and Sanitation". We operate field labs in Uganda, Malawi, Peru and India where we also place undergraduate "Research Apprentices".
The aim of this project is to provide a "how to" on a range of techniques which can be used for decision making. This is part of the Jan 2018 special issue in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution.