Elsevier Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability

Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability examines today’s environmental challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions around the globe. Organized in four parts, the book describes the foundations of human geography and its current research challenges, the intersections between environment and cultural diversity, addressing various type of ecosystem services and their interaction with the environment, the impacts of sustainability practices used by indigenous culture on the ecosystem, and conservation ecology and environment management. Using theoretical and applied insights from local communities around the world, this book helps geographers, demographers, environmentalists, economists, sociologists and urban planners tackle today’s environmental problems from new perspectives. Review Explores the intersection of traditional, tribal and indigenous people surrounding sustainable management of natural resources, food security, quality of life, and livelihood From the Back Cover <p><i>Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability</i> examines today’s environmental challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions around the globe.</p> <p>Organized in four parts, Part 1 describes the foundations of human geography and its current research challenges. Part 2 examines the intersections between environment and cultural diversity, addressing various type of ecosystem services and their interaction with the environment. Part 3 explores the impacts of sustainability practices used by indigenous culture on the ecosystem, and Part 4 highlights conservation ecology and environment management.</p> <p>Using theoretical and applied insights from local communities around the world, Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability helps geographers, demographers, environmentalists, economists, sociologists and urban planners tackle today’s environmental problems from new perspectives.</p> About the Author Dr. Uday Chatterjee is an Applied Geographer with a Post-Graduate degree in Applied Geography at Utkal University and Doctoral Degrees in Applied Geography at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha, India. He has contributed many research papers published in various reputed national and international journals and edited book volumes. He has co-edited one book and is a member of 8 academic societies. His areas of research interest include urban planning, social and human geography, applied geomorphology, hazards and disasters, environmental issues, land use, and rural development. Currently Dr. Uday Chatterjee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Bhatter College, India. Anil Kashyap is Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England. Dr. Kashyap brings a wealth of national and international experience with 22 years in academia, research, and the public sector. Prior to this was Deputy Head of School at Coventry University and Professor and Director of School of Real Estate at RICS School of Built Environment. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, master’s degree in urban planning and a PhD from University of Ulster, United Kingdom. Dr. Kashyap is Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), London, Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), London and Fellow of the Institute of Town Planners (ITPI), India. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) United Kingdom and a Council Member of the International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP) representing India. He has recently been appointed to a prestigious panel of Internatio