Cooperative Management of Natural Resources

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8039-9308-2
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, 272 Seiten, Gewicht: 421 g

The experiences of managing cooperatives dealing with common pool resources in diverse regions of India is presented in this volume, which will encourage a richer understanding of the new management strategies required to strengthen people's participation in development. The case studies cover a range of sectors including: forestry, agro-forestry, minor forest produce, salt, irrigation, and riverline and marine fisheries. They blend together both environmental and economic perspectives within a framework of cooperative action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Katar

Ballabh, Vishwa

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Overview - Katar Singh, Vishwa Ballabh and Thomas Palakudiyil
The Vatra Tree Growers' Cooperative Society - Rakesh Saxena
People's Participation in Organising and Managing Tree Growers' Cooperative Societies - Katar Singh and Suresh Subramaniam
A Case Study from Orissa
The Village Cooperative Forest Societies in Himachal Pradesh - Chetan Agarwal and Katar Singh
Cooperative Management of Minor Forest Products in Madhya Pradesh - Dinesh K Marothia
A Study of a Sabaigrass Processing and Marketing Cooperative Society in Orissa - Katar Singh and Dilip Kumar Mohanty
The Salt Miners' Cooperatives in the Little Rann of Kachchha in Gujarat - Katar Singh and Saumindra Bhattacharya
A Study of a Cooperative Lift Irrigation Society in Western Maharashtra - Thomas Palakudiyil
Farmer Organisation for Lift Irrigation - Tushaar Shah and Saumindra Bhattacharya
Irrigation Companies and Tubewell Cooperatives of Gujarat
Irrigation Cooperatives in Maharashtra - R K Patil and S N Lele
Experiences and Lessons
Cooperative Management of Reservoir Fisheries - T V Moorti and S K Chauhan
The Pong Dam Reservoir in Himachal Pradesh
The Captain Bhery Fishermen's Cooperative Society in West Bengal - Katar Singh and Sangeeta Dhar Choudhury
The Marine Fishermen's Cooperative Societies in Kerala - Ram Mohan Nair and Katar Singh
An Exploratory Study
The Cooperative as an Institution for Management of Marine Fishery Resources - Ramachandra Bhatta
A Case Study from Karnataka
The Marine Fishermen's Cooperative Societies in West Bengal - Kazi M B Rahim and Katar Singh
An Exploratory Study

Über Autor(innen)

Singh, Katar
Katar Singh is currently Honorary (Founder) Chairman, India Natural Resource Economics and Management (INREM) Foundation, Anand, which is a nongovernmental academic organization committed to promoting teaching, training, and research in natural resource economics and environment management, and improving natural resource management policies and programs. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, USA, and has done postdoctoral research and advanced coursework in natural resource economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA and in the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

He has over 50 years of teaching, training, research, and consulting experience in the areas of agricultural and rural development, and natural resource economics and management. He was the director and RBI Chair Professor in the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), India, and also had a short stint as Director, Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow. He has also taught at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India.

He has coordinated and conducted several research and consultancy projects funded by national and international agencies. A prolific writer, he has published over 120 articles and papers in professional journals of repute and has authored/co-authored nine books, including a textbook, Rural Development: Principles, Policies, and Management, second ed. (SAGE, 1999), and another entitled Environmental Economics: Theory and Applications (SAGE, 2007), coauthored with Dr Anil Shishodia. He has also co-edited three books, namely, Co-operative Management of Natural Resources (SAGE, 1996), Natural Resource Economics: Theory and Application in India (1997), and Designing and Managing Rural Development Organizations (2000).

Professor Singh is a life member of numerous professional bodies, including the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE), Indian Society for Ecological Economics, and International Society for Ecological Economics. He is a recipient of several awards and honors, including Rathindra Puraskar 2003, awarded by Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, in recognition of his significant contribution to education in rural development and Sir Chhotu Ram National Award for the year 1996–97, awarded by CSS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, in recognition of his outstanding research work in the field of agriculture and rural development.