Geographical appraisal about Dependency on Natural Resources and Sustainable Resource Management with special reference to Bankura District

Geography

The paper attempts to provide a comprehensive study on the dependency on natural resources of the district of Bankura and provides a guideline to achieve sustainability so far as dependency on natural resources is concerned. It focuses mainly on two natural resources: forestry and drinking water on which people in our study area are heavily dependent. The paper starts with a discussion on few aspects of irrigation and forestry in our study area and after that it considers a profile of our study area, based on field survey, to discuss the socio-economic features of the people residing in that area. The paper also considers some methodological issues in terms of dynamic optimisation model, absolute convergence and contingent valuation method the results of which have strong implications from the point of view of policy analysis in our study area.

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