Land-Water Management and Sustainability in Bangladesh - Indigenous Practices in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

List of contents

1. Introduction and Context 2. Relational Theoretical Framework and Implications 3. Participatory Action Research and Researcher’s Responsibilities 4. Traditional Meanings of Land-water 5. The Community’s Perceptions of Meanings of Management 6. The Community’s Perceptions of Current Management 7. The Community’s Perceptions of Environmental Sustainability 8. Youth Responsibilities for Sustainability 9. A Call to Implications 10. Concluding Remark

About the author

Ranjan Datta is a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at University of Regina, Canada. His publications include Responsibilities for Land and Reconciliation and Reconciliation in Practice: A Cross-cultural Perspective (both forthcoming).

Summary

This book explores the ways one Indigenous community, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, has reinvented the meanings of sustainability using traditional knowledge to blend traditional sentiment with large-scale dislocations within their own communities and international economy.

Product details

• Authors: DATTA, Ranjan Datta, Ranjan (University of Saskatchewan Datta
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138352742
• ISBN: 978-1-138-35274-2
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series; Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Society and culture: general, Environmental science, engineering and technology