Indigenous Knowledge,Forest Management and Forest Policy in South Asia

by Eds.Klaus Seeland and and Fronz Schmithusen

This book consists of 17 papers, based on cross-cultral,interdiciplinary investigations of well-known scholars of forest management,etho-botanists,social anthropologists and of the members of several local NGOs involved in either community forestry or village development programmes.About The AuthorKlaus Seeland is a reputed political scientist and sociologist who has been researching in South Asia on socio-cultural studies in resource management,perception and local knowledge for over twenty years now.Currently, he is Senior Lecturer at the Chair of forest policy and forest economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich,Switzerland and reader in sociology at the University of Konstanz Germany.Franz Schmithusen,professor of forest policy and forest economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) since 1984, is an eminent scholar with varied research concerns that include law and utilisation rights and combined resources and management systems.