CONTENTS Preface iii Acknowledgements v Contents vii List of Participants ix Welcome Address 1 Inaugural Address 5 Guest Speech 9 Introduction 13 Recommendations 23 Management and Manpower Development 1. Biosphere Reserves-A Confused Concept 27 Kailash Sankhala 2. Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve-An Approach 33 S. Shyam Sunder 3. Critical Issues in the Management of Biosphere Reserves 36 C.T.S. Nair 4. The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve: Delimitation, Biological Diversity and Ecological Complexity 47 V.M. Meher-Homji 5. Conservation and Management of Biosphere Reserves 60 N.D. Jayal 6. Management of the Core Area in Biosphere Reserves 64 G. Mukundan 7. Managing Biosphere Reserves 67 S. Parameswarappa 8. Action Plan for the Management of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve 70 V.R. Chitrapu 9. Action Plan for Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (Karnataka Portion) 76 W. Wesley 10. Manpower Planning and Development 88 S. Kondas and. R. Gunasekaran Environmental Education 11. Strategies for Environmental Education in Biosphere Reserves 101 S.M. Nair 12. Nature Education Camps and Biosphere Reserves 109 Lavkumar Khacher 13. Public Participation in the Biosphere Reserves 118 S. Subbarayalu Naidu Research Priorities 14. Research Needs for the Biosphere Reserve Programme 123 C.R. Babu, K.P.S. Chauhan and M.C. Goptnathan 15. Research Priorities in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve-An Overview 132 Madhav Gadgil and R. Sukumar 16. Biosphere Reserve as In Situ Centres of Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources and Endangered Species 140 M.P. Nayar 17. Research Priorities in Biosphere Reserves 143 B.S. Lamba 18. Priority for Rare Plant Data 147 \N.C. Nair 19. Study of Biological Diversity as a Research Priority 155 Cecil J. Saldanha 20. Notes on Action Plan for Research in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve 160 G.U. Kurup 21. The Marine Biosphere Reserves for the Tropics 163 K. Krishnamurthy 22. Research Priorities Concerning Plant Genetic Resources in Bio-sphere Reserves 167 R.S. Paroda and R.K. Arora 23. The Need for Bench Mark Watershed Studies under Selected Vegetation in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve 177 P. Samraj and R. Raghunath 24. Research Needs for Utilization of Bioresoures in Biosphere Reserves 181 N.P. Balakrishnan Eco-regeneration and Sympathetic Resource Utilization 25. Eco-regeneration and Sympathetic Resource Utilization in Desert Biosphere Reserve in the Thar Desert 195 K.A. Shankaranarayan 26. Eco-regeneration and Sympathetic Resource Utilization 215 Arvind Khare 27. Management of Biosphere Reserve with People's Participation 220 P.S. Ramakrishnan 28. Eco-restoration of Nilgiri Hills 227 P. Samraj Special Invited Lecture 29. Some Thoughts on Biosphere Reserves: A Perspective from the United States of America 237 William P. Gregg, Jr.