Ugyen Tshewang: Bionomics in the Dragon Kingdom
Bionomics in the Dragon Kingdom
Buch
- Ecology, Economics and Ethics in Bhutan
- Springer International Publishing, 11/2018
- Einband: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783319946542
- Bestellnummer: 8322879
- Umfang: 188 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 18001
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
- Gewicht: 435 g
- Maße: 241 x 159 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 23.11.2018
- Serie: Fascinating Life Sciences
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This compact and elegant work (equally fitting for both academic as well as the trade audiences) provides a readily accessible and highly readable overview of Bhutan s unique opportunities and challenges; all her prominent environmental legislation, regulatory statutes, ecological customs and practices, both in historic and contemporary terms. At the same time, Bionomics places the ecological context, including a section on animal rights in Bhutan, within the nation s Buddhist spiritual and ethical setting. Historic contextualization accents the book s rich accounting of every national park and scientific reserve, as well as providing up-to-the-minute climate-change related hurdles for the country.Merging the interdisciplinary sciences, engineering and humanities data in a compelling up-to-date portrait of the country, the authors have presented this dramatic compendium against the backdrop of an urgent, global ecological time-frame. It thus becomes clearthat the articulated stakes for Bhutan, like her neighboring Himalayan and Indian sub-continental countries (China, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar) are immense, as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds, affecting every living being across the planet. Because Bhutan s two most rewarding revenue streams derive from the sale of hydro-electric power and from tourism, the complexities of modern pressures facing a nation that prides herself on maintaining traditional customs in what has been a uniquely isolated nation are acute.