Socio-economic and Eco-biological
Dimensions in Resource Use
and Conservation: Epilogue
Niranjan Roy , Shubhadeep Roychoudhury , Sunil Nautiyal ,
Sunil K. Agarwal and Sangeeta Baksi
Abstract Use of natural resources largely determines the standard of living that
human societies enjoy. Steady increase in worldwide use of biotic and abiotic
resources (such as water, air, soil, biodiversity, land as habitat etc.) for a range of
societal purposes (such as wind power, solar power, tidal flows etc.) have been linked
with rapid population growth. Current as well as potential future flows of income are
often associated with the economic significance of natural resources. In the poorest
regions of the world, such resources form the basis for the wealth generation and
hence are also considered as the basis of livelihoods. In such poor rural communities, a reduction in stocks of natural capital and flows of ecosystem services may
disproportionately harm their wellbeing. Although a number of reports are available at regional, national and global levels that deal with climate smart livelihoods
and socio-ecological development, for a mega-diverse country like India the studies
which mostly cover the national status are not going to propose the sound approaches
for the people and landscape of its varied agro-climatic regions. The purpose of this
volume is to provide findings of different and differing studies done in diverse agroclimatic zones to the stakeholders in a compiled and comprehensive manner to enable
N. Roy
Department of Economics, Assam University, Silchar, India
S. Roychoudhury (B)
Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, India
e-mail: shubhadeep1@gmail.com
S. Nautiyal
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic
Change, Bengaluru, India
S. K. Agarwal
Technological Advancement for Rural Areas Scheme, Science for Equity Empowerment and
Development Division, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India
S. Baksi
Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council, Department of Science and
Technology, New Delhi, India
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
N. Roy et al. (eds.), Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions
in Resource use and Conservation, Environmental Science and Engineering,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32463-6_26
547
Dimensions in Resource Use
and Conservation: Epilogue
Niranjan Roy , Shubhadeep Roychoudhury , Sunil Nautiyal ,
Sunil K. Agarwal and Sangeeta Baksi
Abstract Use of natural resources largely determines the standard of living that
human societies enjoy. Steady increase in worldwide use of biotic and abiotic
resources (such as water, air, soil, biodiversity, land as habitat etc.) for a range of
societal purposes (such as wind power, solar power, tidal flows etc.) have been linked
with rapid population growth. Current as well as potential future flows of income are
often associated with the economic significance of natural resources. In the poorest
regions of the world, such resources form the basis for the wealth generation and
hence are also considered as the basis of livelihoods. In such poor rural communities, a reduction in stocks of natural capital and flows of ecosystem services may
disproportionately harm their wellbeing. Although a number of reports are available at regional, national and global levels that deal with climate smart livelihoods
and socio-ecological development, for a mega-diverse country like India the studies
which mostly cover the national status are not going to propose the sound approaches
for the people and landscape of its varied agro-climatic regions. The purpose of this
volume is to provide findings of different and differing studies done in diverse agroclimatic zones to the stakeholders in a compiled and comprehensive manner to enable
N. Roy
Department of Economics, Assam University, Silchar, India
S. Roychoudhury (B)
Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, India
e-mail: shubhadeep1@gmail.com
S. Nautiyal
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic
Change, Bengaluru, India
S. K. Agarwal
Technological Advancement for Rural Areas Scheme, Science for Equity Empowerment and
Development Division, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India
S. Baksi
Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council, Department of Science and
Technology, New Delhi, India
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
N. Roy et al. (eds.), Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions
in Resource use and Conservation, Environmental Science and Engineering,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32463-6_26
547