Biodiversity Conservation Through Access and Benefit Sharing Abs : Himalayas and Indian Sub-continent
Oommen, Oommen V. (EDT); Laladhas, K. P. (EDT); Nelliyat, Prakash (EDT); Pisupati, Balakrishna (EDT)
Language: English
Published by Springer, 2024
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- Title
- Biodiversity Conservation Through Access and Benefit Sharing Abs : Himalayas and Indian Sub-continent
- Author
- Oommen, Oommen V. (EDT); Laladhas, K. P. (EDT); Nelliyat, Prakash (EDT); Pisupati, Balakrishna (EDT)
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3031161882
- ISBN 13
- 9783031161889
This book deals with the economic potentials of biodiversity and its capacity to support its own conservation aiming to provide livelihood for millions engaged in conservation, both now and for future generations. The book highlights the potentials of natural resources which are characterized as capital wealth (as defined in Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)), to finance its own conservation and to provide livelihood means to people who conserve it.
The book is divided into five Parts. PART I explains about the Premise of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), PART II describes about the Technology Transfer, PART III will provide details about the Access to Genetic Resources and to Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit Sharing PART IV is the Implementation of ABS Mechanisms and PART V is about ABS and Its Economics.
This book will be of interest to biodiversity policy makers, administrators, university and college students, researchers, biodiversity conservationists."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Three International Books have been edited; one book was published by Springer International and two by Bentham Publishers. More than sixty-five research publications were published in peer-reviewed International and National Journals. He has also authored seven books in the area of Environment & Biodiversity and been published by National Publishers. He served Kerala State Biodiversity Board as its Member Secretary for more than five years. His expertise has been registered in the academic and administrative committees of different Universities in Kerala. He has also functioned as an Expert member in the different policy-making committees of the National Biodiversity Authority, Government of India and Government of Kerala. He has also worked as an expert member of Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India, and Member of the working group on Biodiversity constituted by Kerala State Planning Board for the 13th Five-year plan.
Dr. Prakash Nelliyat is a Key Expert (Economist) in the Monitoring and Evaluation team of the World Bank sponsored Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agricultural Modernization (TNIAM) Project at Centre for Water Resources, Anna University Chennai. Previously he worked as Subject Expert (Economic Valuation of Tradable Bio-resources in Kerala) in the Rebuild Kerala Inetiative Programme at the Kerala State Biodiversity Board; Consultant (Biodiversity Finance Initiative) at the UNDP; Fellow, Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), at the Centre for Biodiversity Policy and Law, Chennai, where he involved in research on various issues on ABS. He also worked as Environmental Economist (valuation of biological resources) at the National Biodiversity Authority; Research Coordinator for ‘South Asian Integrated Water Resources Management Programme’ at the Centre for Water Resources - Anna University; and as ‘Research Associate’ at Madras School of Economics and Madras Institute of Development Studies.
Prakash has more than 25 years research and teaching experience in Water Resources Issues, Environmental Economics, Biodiversity and Natural Resources Management and received IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program’s Young Scientist Award, 2006. Prakash received the World Bank Aided India Capacity Building project (Environmental Economics) Overseas Fellowship (2002) and carried out research at the Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden. He presented number of papers on water/biodiversity and other natural resources / environmental issues in national and international conferences and also published articles in reputed journals and edited books.
After the Post-graduation (M.A. Economics), Prakash undergone interdisciplinary training in Environment and Natural Resources Economics and obtained M.Phil from Centre for Research on New International Economic Order, Chennai – University of Madras - and Ph.D from Madras School of Economics – University of Madras. His M.Phil thesis on ‘Coconut Husk Retting and its Environmental Problems in Coastal Kerala’ and Ph.D dissertation on ‘Industrial Growth and Environmental Degradation: A Case Study of Industrial Pollution in Tiruppur’.
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