Interaction of Biodiversity and Economic Welfare - A Case Study from the Himalayas of India
Interaction of Biodiversity and Economic Welfare - A Case Study from the Himalayas of India
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DOI：
10.3808/jei.200500061
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发表时间：
2005-12
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7
通讯作者：
S. Nautiyal;K. Rajan;R. Shibasaki
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作者：
S. Nautiyal;K. Rajan;R. Shibasaki
在任何地区，要实现生物多样性保护的目标，必须加强现有的资源，这有助于为当地人民提供替代生计或收入。然而，尽管世界各地正在制定各种保护生物多样性的方案/政策，但各种因素阻碍了实现预期目标。特别是在发展中国家，如果当地人民对自然资源的传统用益权受到限制，他们的可持续生计就很困难。根据在印度喜马拉雅地区选定地点的广泛实地工作和卫星图像分析，我们发现，如果人们有其他收入渠道（有利可图的选择），他们对现有资源的依赖（仅用于满足生存需要，而不是商业目的）将大大降低。因此，这些地区的生物多样性得到了健康的保护和管理。本文讨论了生物多样性与当地人民经济福利的相互作用，认为经济安全比单纯的执行生物多样性保护政策更重要。
In any area to achieve the goal of biodiversity conservation, the existing resources must be strengthened, which are helpful to provide the alternate livelihood or income to the local people. However, although various programmes/policies are being set up over the world for conservation of biodiversity, a variety of factors are hurdles to achieve the expected goals. Particularly in developing countries the sustainable livelihood of the local perople is difficult if restrictions are imposed on their traditional usufruct rights over the natural resources. Based on the extensive field work and analysis of satellite imagery in the selected localities of the Indian Himalaya, we found that if the people are having the alternate avenue (profitable options) for earning, their dependencies on the existing resources (only to meet the subsistence needs, not for commercial purpose) will become much lower. Therefore, the biodiversity in these areas is conserved and managed in a healthy way. In this paper, the interactions of biodiversity and economic welfare of local people are discussed in view of understanding that the economic security is more important than pure enforcement of policies for biodiversity conservation.