These papers focus on the role of indigenous peoples resources in the provision of environmental services to outside communities and the way the globalization of market systems changes privatization. They are based on field work conducted in India, China, Nepal and areas of the Himalaya-Hindukish region. Arguing against opposition to globalization, the contributors demonstrate that new forms of community and continued non-market access to critical productive resources, such as land and forests, allow a greater and more equitable spread of globalizations benefits while addressing some of its negative features. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) `( This book offers) interesting empirical data to support or question a number of gender and women-related assumptions... This book will provide evidence, if need be, to those protagonists of a natural determination of gender roles - Development and Change This book deals with two processes of globalization that are profoundly influencing the lives of indigenous people - the role of their resources in providing environmental services, and the civilizational changes caused by privatization. Examining how to deal with the exclusion of indigenous people in global flows in order to create a more equal and democratic alternative, the book goes beyond the trend for decrying globalization. Instead it calls for a more democratic and equal alternative.
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`[ This book offers] interesting empirical data to support or question a number of gender and women-related assumptions... This book will provide evidence, if need be, to those protagonists of a "natural" determination of gender roles - Development and Change
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| Introduction |
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Dev Nathan and Govind Kelkar |
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| SECTION 1 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AND FOREST MANAGEMENT |
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1. Environmental Services and the Case for Local Forest Management |
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2. Indigenous Communities' Knowledge of Local Ecological Services |
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3. Local Environmental Services: Forest Management and Terraced Agriculture, a Case Study of the Hani of the Ailao Mountains, Yunnan, China |
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4. Conflict in Resource Management of Ecosystem Services: Water in the Lashi Watershed, Lijiang, Yunnan, China |
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5. Impact of the State Logging Ban in Meghalaya, India |
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| SECTION 2 MARKETS AND CIVLIZATIONAL CHANGE |
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6. Timber and Local Accumulation in China |
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Dev Nathan and Yu Xiaogang |
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7. Northeast India: Market and the Transition from Communal to Private Property |
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8. Tourism and Forest Management among the Hani in Xishuangbanna, China |
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9. Tourism and Gender Relations in Lijiang, China |
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10. Crafting an Alternative: Leasehold Forestry for Livelihoods of the Poor in Nepal |
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Dev Nathan and Girija Shrestha |
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11. External Trade and Development of Upland Peoples in the Himalaya-Hindukush |
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Dev Nathan and N.S. Jodha |
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| Conclusion Civilizational Change: Markets and Privatization among Indigenous Peoples |
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Dev Nathan and Govind Kelkar |
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| About the Editors and Contributors |
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Dev Nathan, an economist by training, is, Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. He is also a columnist and a regular contributor to the Economic and Political Weekly. Dr Nathan has previously co-authored Gender and Tribe: Women, Land and Forests (1991), Assessment of Rural Poverty in Asia and the Pacific (2002), edited From Tribe to Caste (1997), and co-edited Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds (2003). Dr Nathan frequently serves as a consultant to IFAD, Rome, several UN organizations and ICIMOD, Kathmandu, on issues of rural poverty and the development of indigenous peoples.
Govind Kelkar is Coordinator, IFADUNIFEM Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, New Delhi, and the founding Editor of the journal Gender, Technology and Development. She has previously taught at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand where she also founded the graduate programme in Gender and Development Studies. Dr Kelkar has previously co-authored Gender and Tribe: Women, Land and Forests (1991), and co-edited Feminist Challenges in the Information Age (2002), and Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds (2003). Dr Kelkar is a frequent consultant to IFAD, Rome, UNIFEM, New Delhi and other UN organizations on mainstreaming gender in development besides being a keynote speaker at many related conferences.
Pierre Walter is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dr Walters research interests include literacy, immigrant and extension education, comparative education and policy studies, alternative education, Asian studies and gender and development. He has contributed numerous articles to leading scholarly journals, besides serving as an Assistant Editor of Gender, Technology and Development. He has co-edited Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds (2003).
