Sundarbans and its ecosystem services : traditional knowledge, customary sustainable use and community based innovation / Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, editor.
Titumir, Rashed A. M., editor.
2022
HC79.E5 S85 2022
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Title Sundarbans and its ecosystem services : traditional knowledge, customary sustainable use and community based innovation / Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, editor.
ISBN 9789811930003 electronic book
9811930007 electronic book
9811929998
9789811929991
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3000-3
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-19-3000-3 doi
Call Number HC79.E5 S85 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.954925
Summary This edited volume focuses on the largest single tract contiguous mangrove forest in the world the Sundarbans exploring traditional knowledge, customary sustainable use and community-based innovation. The book analyses the current state of the Sundarbans, its multiple values and ecosystem services, to demonstrate that Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is essential for the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Not only does this play an integral role in realising SDG 14 (life below water) and SDG 15 (life on land), it also actively contributes towards achieving many other goals and targets. It contributes a new understanding of sustainability by bringing human-nature relationships in view of the renewed interest in biodiversity and climate change heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The book links scientific knowledge with multi, inter, trans- disciplinary nature of ILK for sustainable development collected from the ground. It challenges the market-based approach in valuing the natural resources, and demonstrates that the valuation of environmental resources through market penetration pricing does not reckon the social benefits and values coproduced through complementarity between humans and nature. Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir is a professor at the Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently holding the charge of the Chairman of the Department. He is the chairperson of Unnayan Onneshan a Dhaka based multidisciplinary think-tank, vice chairperson of IUCN Asia Regional Members Committee and chairperson of IUCN National Committee of Bangladesh. He has led numerous projects for diverse organisations including governments, development partners and international organisations at home and abroad. His latest books are Numbers and Narratives in Bangladeshs Economic Development (2021), Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Developing Countries: State, Citizenship and Transformation (2021), and the edited volume, COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Response, Rights & Resilience (2021).
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Series Sustainable development goals series.
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Intro
Preface
Contents
Editor and Contributors
About the Editor
Contributors
Acronyms
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: The Sundarbans as Our Mind
Introduction
Biodiversity Resources
Floral Species
Faunal Species
Aquatic Resources
Resource System
An Alternative Conceptualisation of Values by the TRUs
Current Management Approach and Associated Problems
Methodology
PPGIS Method
Study Area
Rationale and Scope of the Book
Design of the Chapters
Conclusions
References

2 Current State of Terrestrial Ecosystem: Evidence of Resource Vulnerability
Introduction
Trends in Biodiversity Resources
Decadal Changes in Forest Coverage
Issues and Challenges
Increasing Habitation and Illegal Encroachment
Land Shortage, Land Reclamation and Shrimp Cultivation
Rent-Seeking Tendencies and Extra-Legal Management
Marginalisation of Local and Indigenous People and Existence of Poverty
Industrialisation and Development Projects Near (or Around) the Forest
Conclusions
References

3 Current State of Biodiversity in Marine and Coastal Ecosystem of the Sundarbans
Introduction
Current State of Biodiversity: Scientific Evidence
Ecological Value Mapping of Fishing
Ecological Value Mapping of Crabs
Traditional Resource Users' Perspective: Community-Based Monitoring
Loss of Coastal and Marine Biodiversity: The DPSIR Framework
Conclusions
References
4 Traditional Knowledge and Customary Sustainable Practices in Terrestrial Ecosystem
Introduction
Traditional Rules and Practices Followed by TRUs While Harvesting Resources

Rules Followed by Mouals (Honey/Wax Collectors)
Rules Followed by Bawalis (Wood Collectors)
Traditional Practices of Golpata (Nypa Fruticans) Harvesters
Cultural Beliefs of TRUs and Indigenous Communities
Bawalis
Mouals
Munda Community
Innovations in Livelihood Options
Innovative Techniques in Agriculture
Joint Cultivation of Crab and Duck
Community-Based Mangrove Agro Aqua Silvi (CMAAS) Culture
Marginalisation of TRUs and Degradation of Resources
Conclusions
References

5 Traditional Knowledge and Customary Sustainable Practices in Coastal and Marine Ecosystem
Introduction
Rules of Fishing in the Water Bodies: Traditional vs Non-traditional Perspective
TRUs' Perspective
Customary Rules Followed by Jele (Traditional Fishermen)
Practices of Fishing Followed by the Fishermen: Traditional vs Non-traditional Perspective
TRUs' Perspective
The Negative Impact of Shrimp Cultivation in Coastal and Marine Ecosystems: TRUs' Perspective
Conclusions
References
6 Multiple Values of Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being
Introduction

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