Contents List of Tables viii List of Figures xii List of Abbreviations xv Preface xviii Introduction by Pushpam Kumar and B. Sudhakara Reddy xx SECTION 1: ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL RESILIENCE 1.Social Resilience of the Riverbank Erosion Displacees in Bangladesh 3 M. Zulfiquar AH Islam 2.Environmental Degradation and its Impact on Dryland Ecosystems: 20 A Case Study of Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh Ramakrishna Nallathiga 3.Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Changes: Salinity Ingress and 38 Ground Water Depletion in Coastal Gujarat Jyothis Sathyapalan and S. lyengar 4.Reconciling Weak and Strong Sustainability 50 B.S. Sri and M.S. V. Prasad SECTION 2: ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND QUALITY OF LIFE 5.Fish Biodiversity of Digha Fishery in Eastern India: An Empirical Analysis 69 Anita Chattopadhyay Gupta and Rabindra N. Bhattacharya 6.Aquaculture vs Wild Shrimp Fishery: A Bio-economic Analysis of 93 West Bengal and Orissa Kausik Gupta, ]. Chowdhury and Raman Khaddaria 7.Linking Conservation with Livelihood: Lessons from Management of 104 Gir-Protected Area in Western India Amita Shah vi Ecology and Human Well-Being 8. Environmental Implications of Integrated Pest Management: Farming of 133 Paddy and Vegetables Alka Singh, Ranjit Kumar, P.K. fain and A.K. Mangal SECTION 3: VALUATION OF ECOSYSTEM 9. Social Perceptions and Valuation of Urban Wetlands in Kolkata 147 Sumana Bandyopadhyay, K. Narayanan and A. Ramanathan 10. Assessment and Valuation of Forest Revegetation 161 Dibyendu Mondal, S. Singh and J.V. Dhameliya 11. Alternative Welfare Measures: Overview and Case Study of India 179 Brent Bleys 12. Storm Protection Value of Mangroves in Coastal Orissa 197 Saudamini Das SECTION 4: COMMUNITY AND NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 13. Community Participation in Joint Forest Planning and Management 213 in Karnataka P. Sudha, V. Rampmsad, P.K. Bhat, R. Jagannatha Rao and N.H. Ravindranath 14. Sustainability and Food Security Issues among Farmers in Tamil Nadu 230 H.N. Chanakya, S.T. Somashekara Reddyand P. Balachandra 15. Collective Action in an Embedded Choice Model: A Study of Fishing 253 Cooperatives in Calcutta Zakir Husain 16. Environment and Community Action: A Case Study of Shifting Cultivation 273 Subhash Chandra Srivastava SECTION 5: POLICY REFORMS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 17. Globalisation and Sustainable Development: Economic and Environmental 285 Conflicts Prabha Panth 18. Environmental Protection: The Role of Regulatory System in India 303 P.M. Prasad Contents vii 19. Successful Voluntary Participation in Common Property Resource 333 Lekha Mukhopadhyay 20. Integrating Watershed Management: Stakeholders, Dynamics 352 and Institutions Saravanan V. Subramanian 21. Interactive Goal Linear Programming in Land Use Planning 381 in Haryana A.K. Vasisht and S.S. Kumar About the Editors and Contributors 397 Index 399