Socialogy of Natural Reources In Pakistan and Adjoining Countries

I. Traditional Perceptions of the Environment. 1. Indigenous agronomics and Agricultural development in the Indus Basin. 2. Notes on the Exercise of Drought Perception, Recollection and prediction. 3. Perception of and Agricultural adjustment to Floods in Jamuna Floodplain, Bangladesh. 4. Perceptions of tree Shade among Farmers in Pakistan. 5. Culturally Relevant Socio-Economic Categories of Rural Landholders in Bangladesh. II. Common Management of natural Resources. 1. Irrigation and Honor: Cultural impediments to the Improvement of Local Level Water. 2. Population growth and the Decline of common Property Resources in Rajasthan India. 3. The Privatization of the Commons: Land Tenure and Social Forestry Development in Azad Kashmir. 4. The Role of Institutions in the Management of Commonly-Owned Rangelands in Baluchistan. 5. Common Resource Management in Pakistan: Garrett Hardin in the Junglat. III. Energy Flows: 1. Energy Use and Social structure in a Bangladesh village. 2. The Demand for Fuel; Ecological Implications of Scoio-Economic Change. 3. Socio-Economic Aspects of Household Fuel Use in Pakistan. IV. Women and natural Resources. 1. The Impact of Afforestation on Women, The Development of Marginal Lands and Female fodder Collectors in Pakistan. 2. The Role of Rural Bangladeshi women in Livestock Production. 3. Women and Water: Effects of Irrigation development in a North Indian Village. V. Development and Conservation. 1. Conservation at the Local Level: Individual Perceptions and Group Mechanisms. 2. Insiders and Outsiders in Baluchistan: Western and indigenous Perspectives on Ecology and Development. After word, Contributors, Original Sources, Index.

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