Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation in India

Contents: Preface. 1. Conservation and poverty alleviation: the view and practice of the poor. 2. International union for conservation of nature. 3. Poverty alleviation in rural India: strategy and programmes. 4. Employment challenge and strategies in India: framework of ILO’s global employment. 5. The role of ecological theory and practice in poverty alleviation and environmental conservation. 6. Knowledge necessary to meet poverty-alleviation goals. 7. Economic reforms and poverty alleviation. 8. Privatizing poverty alleviation: towards business solutions for poverty. 9. Good governance and poverty alleviation programmes. 10. Sustainable energy - rural poverty alleviation. 11. Mainstreaming poverty alleviation strategies through sustainable rural infrastructure development. 12. Conservation, human rights, and poverty reduction. 13. Poverty alleviation through rural-urban linkages: policy implications. 14. Poverty alleviation under fiscal decentralization. 15. Employment strategies for the poor in India: search for sustainability. Bibliography. Index.

Growing awareness and evidence that conservation and poverty alleviation need to be combined to make both more effective. Both ends have an intrinsic value and their due connection is of strategic importance. As long as the poor do not consider conservation as a means to enhance and improve their present well being opposite of poverty they tend to be indifferent to measures which just aim at the well being of future generations.