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. Includes in-depth case studies across different geographic spaces Contains contributions from a range of young to eminent scholars, researchers and policymakers Highlights new insights from social science, environmental science and sustainable development Synthesizes research on society, ecology and technology with sustainability, all in a single resource

• | Author: Uday Chatterjee, Anil Kashyap, Mark Everard, Gopal Krishna Panda, Dinabandhu Mahata
• | Publisher: Elsevier
• | Publication Date: Apr 18, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 638 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0323916031
• | ISBN-13: 9780323916035