Indicator based approach for monitoring natural resources of village ecosystems: findings from select ecosystems of southern India |
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Authors: | Rakesh Tiwari Indu K Murthy N H Ravindranath |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Room no 208, Bengaluru, 560012, India |
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Abstract: | Indian village ecosystems are diverse with respect to population pressures, agricultural activities and production, livestock
composition, energy sources, economics and infrastructural capabilities. Natural resource degradation is a major global concern
and the factors and processes leading to degradation are regional and scale up from the micro levels such as village ecosystems.
There is need for integrated multidisciplinary approaches for monitoring the resource status and environmental issues at the
decentralized level. This paper presents an approach to assess village ecosystems using a set of key indicators developed
and tested across fourteen diverse village ecosystems of the Southern India. The concept of ecosystem services associated
with village ecosystems of India has been described and adopted to identify indicators and assess issues and trends. Comparison
across villages has been demonstrated and the indicators successfully reflected the key environmental issues at each village
level as well as differences across villages. We also report unique cases of stabilized land use and ‘desakota-like’ trends
from village ecosystem studied. |
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