CONTENTS: Chapter 1. Re-modernizing the Modern, A syncretic perspective By: Binay Kumar Pattnaik Chapter 2. Ecological bases of Indian Traditions: Search for an Indigenous Vision By: Binay Kumar Pattnaik, Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016 , India Chapter 3. Forests, folklores and religion: understanding Embedded ''ecological wisdom'' in the Sundarbans, West Bengal, India By: Amrita Sen, Faculty Member, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India Chapter 4. Governing the Commons with Traditional knowledge and Practices: Lessons from Bishnoi community of IndiaBy: Pradip Swarnakar , Binay Kumar Pattnaik and Pritha Sarkar , Assoc Professor, Professor and Res. Scholar, Dept.
of Humanities and Social Sciences, IITKanpur. India Chapter 5 . Cultural Practices of the Totonacs of Veracruz Vrs Neoliberal Reforms : A case for the recovery of the sacred By: Victoria Maria Chenaut , Professor, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Anthropologia Social (CIESAS), Unidad Regional Golfo, Avenida Encanto s/n esquina Antonio Nava, Colnia E1Mirador, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Chapter 6. The Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy and Sustainability: Achieving A Sustainable Environment from the Thai Perspective By: Kanittha Tambunlertchai, Asst. Professor of Economics , Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Chapter 7. Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation: An Approach to Epistemic Fairness and New Citizenship in Mexico By: Aida Luz López Gómez, Professor, Environmental Education Postgraduate Program, Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico, San Lorenzo 290, Colonia Del Valle, Mexico Chapter 8. Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Farming Practices among the Naga Tribes: A Reappraisal of their Worldviews By: Nava Kishore Das , Formerly Asst.
Director, Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, India. Chapter 9. Partnering with the Mountains for Reclaiming their Land: Conflict between Indigenous and the Capitalist Perspectives By: Annapurna Devi Pandey , Faculty Member, Anthropology Department University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Chapter 10 . Sustainability and Ecological Intervention: Comparing Geoengineering and Amazonian Shamanism By : Renzo Taddei , Asst Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Oceanic Studies, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Santos, Brazil Chapter 11. From Nature, to Nature: Articulating the discourse of environmental sustainability in a Chhau Dance community of West Bengal By: Jenia Mukherjee and Archita Chatterjee , Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India Chapter 12 . Practicing sustainable Irrigation management through Indigenous Knowledge: Experiences from Sri Lanka By: Mahinda Wijeratne, Senior Professor, Dept of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Mapalana, Kamburupitiya, Sri Lanka. Chapter 13 .
Indigenous knowledge in Agricultural Production By: Nilantha De Silva, Senior Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Mapalana, Kamburupitiya, Sri Lanka. Chapter 14. Indigenous Seed Conservation Practices in Western Himalaya: A Case Study of Mandakini Valley, Uttarakhand, India By: Vandana Mehrwar, V.P. Uniyal, and Vinod K. Bhatt * Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani Dehradun, India, * Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm, Ramgarh, Dehradun, India Chapter 15. Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India By: Bhagwati Uniyal1, V.P.
Uniyal2 and Vinod K. Bhatt1 , 1.Navdanya, 105 Rajpur Road Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, 248 00 & 2. Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Chapter 16 . Ethnobiological perspective to Bioresource conservation among the Indian communities By : Ambarish Mukherjee , Former Professor of Botany, Burdwan University, Golapbag, Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Chapter 17 . Sustainability as a social encounter - A Dialogue among heterogenous knowledge systems for the management of forest in the Gran Chaco wetlands of Argentina By: Florencia Fossa Riglos M.
and Spinoso Nahuel, in Rural Studies and Globalization Programme, National University of San Martin, Francia, San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Serpe Paula in CONICT, Godoy Cruz 2290, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Hernández Valeria in Africa and Asia Center for Social Sciences, University Paris Diderot, INALCO, Rue Albert Einstein, Paris.