Vol. 069: Bahadur K.C., Krishna: Combining Socio-Economic and Spatial Methodologies in Rural Resources and Livelihood Development

In many mountainous areas of Asia, the trend of natural resource degradation and socio-economic development vary in the different spatial gradient of the area due to the differentiation of resource availabilities, management, availability and the condition of infrastructure and access to market. Thus, the co-existence of these biophysical and socio-economic problems raised the question of whether the relationship between the resource availability, use and degradation and living standard can be found and which factors determine the future development. This book investigated the possibilities of linking and integrating biophysical condition and the socio-economic development by combining socio-economic and spatial methodologies. Book presents integrated use of remote sensing, GIS, socio-economic and other analytical tools to investigate the farming system development and land use sustainability and test the different future problem solving strategies in order to achieve both sustainable natural resources management and living standard of rural farming families for different scenarios based on the integrated economic and environmental planning concept. It presents the characterising land use dynamics through remote sensing, socio-economic variables through family survey and biophysical situation through resources endowment, geographical accessibility, and connecting people to place through GIS. Study was carried out in a small mountainous watershed in Nepal to examine theory and practice in linking people and environment. Book also describe the land use dynamics and associated social, biophysical drivers of change articulated through human environment interaction. Book address a need for a comprehensive study of linking across thematic domains e.g. social, biophysical and across the space and time scales for research and study with in the context of human environment interactions in some extents. Book provides the methodological concept suitable for dealing the problem with similar biophysical and socio-economic condititon.

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