LEADER 04597nam 22006375 450 001 9910298391003321 005 20200707004337.0 010 $a94-007-7202-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-7202-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000026038 035 $a(EBL)1466373 035 $a(OCoLC)861080752 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001049224 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11668858 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001049224 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11019296 035 $a(PQKB)10085926 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1466373 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-007-7202-1 035 $a(PPN)176128727 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000026038 100 $a20131001d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKhazan Ecosystems of Goa $eBuilding on Indigenous Solutions to Cope with Global Environmental Change /$fby Sangeeta M. Sonak 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (145 p.) 225 1 $aAdvances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,$x1879-7180 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-007-7201-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIndigenous traditional knowledge and Global Environmental Change -- An introduction to Goa and Khazan ecosystems -- Traditional ecological knowledge and environmental sustainability in Khazan -- Management of khazan ecosystems: contested environments, competing interests and changing institutions -- Erosion of indigenous resource base: causes and challenges -- A framework for ecosystem performance, ecological vulnerability, ecosystem valuation and local livelihoods using Khazan example -- Building on indigenous resource management systems: key to finding solutions. 330 $aThis book elaborates on the Khazan ecosystems of Goa, India. Khazans are human-managed ecosystems, which are reclaimed from coastal wetlands, salt marshes and mangrove areas, where tidal influence is regulated through a highly structured system of dykes, canals, furrows, and sluice gates using resources that are amply available locally. Khazan ecosystems are marvels of tribal engineering. They are a simple architectural design, which operate at a very low running cost using tidal, hydro, and solar energy. The design contributes to a highly complex but eco-friendly ecosystem integrating agriculture, aquaculture and salt panning. .  Khazan ecosystems have been functional for the last 3500 years. The history of Khazans is very ancient and can be traced to the transition from food gathering to food growing, which has been regarded as the biggest step in the history of human civilization. Khazan ecosystems thus have a high historical and world heritage value. They are also repositories of global biodiversity, with unique flora suitable to their unique and highly variable environment. They are endemic and heritage ecosystems of Goa and ultimately reservoirs of history and heritage. Using the example of the Khazan lands, the book analyzes and comments on traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous technology. It presents the evolution of Khazan management institutions over a period of more than three thousand years, as well as factors that have contributed to its decline in recent years.  It develops a conceptual framework for ecosystem performance and suggests strategies for conservation of Khazans as well as strategies to build on these indigenous adaptation mechanisms to cope with the global  environmental change. 410 0$aAdvances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,$x1879-7180 606 $aPhysical geography 606 $aCoasts 606 $aSustainable development 606 $aPhysical Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J16000 606 $aCoastal Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G35020 606 $aSustainable Development$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U34000 615 0$aPhysical geography. 615 0$aCoasts. 615 0$aSustainable development. 615 14$aPhysical Geography. 615 24$aCoastal Sciences. 615 24$aSustainable Development. 676 $a338.927 700 $aSonak$b Sangeeta M$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01063842 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910298391003321 996 $aKhazan Ecosystems of Goa$92542190 997 $aUNINA