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Traditional Knowledge in Modern India: Preservation, Promotion, Ethical Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms
This book demonstrates how traditional knowledge can be connected to the modern world. Human knowledge of housing, health and agriculture dates back thousands of years, with old wisdom developing and becoming modern. But in the past few decades, global communities have increasingly become aware that some of this valuable knowledge has fallen by the wayside. This has sparked systematic efforts at the local, national and global levels to connect this neglected knowledge to the modern world. It discusses the origin of the topic, its importance, recent developments in India and abroad, and what is being done and still needs to be done in order to preserve India's traditional knowledge. The discussions address a broad range of fields and organizations: from Basmati rice to Ayurvedic cosmetics; from traditional irrigation and folk music to modern drug discovery and climate change adaptation; and from the Biodiversity Convention to the WHO, WTO and WIPO.
Water Resources, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Eco-system Services
Papers In The Volume Address Issues Relating To Water Resources Sustainable Livelihoods And Eco-System Sciences In India-Emerging Problems Of Urban And Industrial Pollution, Analyse Institution Of Water Management And Aquatic Eco-System. Also Point Out Future Challenges And Directions For Policy Makers.
Economic Studies of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge
This book deals with the traditional and indigenous knowledge of the common men and women of India--tribal and Dalit populations, fisher folk, craftsmen, artisans, and leather workers--which includes their agriculture, housing, and irrigation methods; medicinal knowled≥ methods for collecting drinking water; and arts and culture. It establishes that the economic significance of such knowledge in the modern world is being utilized in a wide variety of ways. Globally, indigenous knowledge is now recognized as an underutilized resource that can help to reduce poverty and a dormant reserve with considerable commercial potential.
Economics of Trade Facilitation
This book for the first time introduces trade facilitation, a measure that improves the capabilities of business, trade, and administrative organizations. The concept is explained through examples, theory, organizations involved, their development impacts, and implementation problems.
Women Miners in Developing Countries
Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized operations as the only form of mining. Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the Pacific region, Latin America and Africa, this book makes visible the roles and contributions of women as miners. It also highlights the importance of engendering small and informal mining in the developing world as compared to the early European and American mines. The book shows that women are engaged in various kinds of mining and illustrates how gender and inequality are constructed and sustained in the mines, and also how ethnic identities intersect with those gendered identities.
Design Issues in Farmer-managed Irrigation Systems
Overview of the workshop; papers related to design outcomes; papers related to the design process; case studies; country papers.
A New Institutional Theory of Production
This empirical inquiry leads to fascinating revelations about the history and society of Magadh, which also provide concrete support to the theories propounded by the author. Professor Sengupta links up the different approaches followed by various branches of the social sciences by analysing the dynamics of uncertainties from the point of theoretical statistics, which is expressed as the evolution, stability, and transition of institutions.
