Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological
Interface-Building—Exploring Potential
Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource
Conservation and Livelihood
Development: Prologue
Sunil Nautiyal, Ruediger Schaldah, K.V. Raju, Harald Kaechele,
Bill Pritchard and K.S. Rao
1 Human-Environment Systems
Since their beginning, human societies and their ecosystems have been
inter-dependent. While the early hunting-gathering way of life relied on the provisioning of wild animals and plants, with the emergence of agriculture and permanent
S. Nautiyal (&)
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), IInstitute for Social
and Economic Change (ISEC), Dr. VKRV Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560072, India
e-mail: nautiyal_sunil@yahoo.com
R. Schaldah
Centre for Environmental System Research (CESR), IUniversity of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
e-mail: schaldach@usf.uni-kassel.de
K.V. Raju
ICRISAT, Patancheru, India
e-mail: kvraju2008@gmail.com
H. Kaechele
Institute of Socio-Economics, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF),
Muencheberg, Germany
e-mail: Harald.Kaechele@zalf.de
B. Pritchard
School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
e-mail: bill.pritchard@sydney.edu.au
B. Pritchard
Institute for Geography, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany
K.S. Rao
Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
e-mail: srkottapalli@yahoo.com
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_1
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