OAR@ICRISATPeople and the Peepal, Cultural Attitudes to Sacred Trees and their Conservations in Urban AreasK VRajuauthorSManasiauthorSNautiyalauthorK PRashmiauthorGrowing Urbanization and its negative impacts on urban ecology have been felt acutely, the world over. Protecting the ecosystem is a major issue on the global agenda and preserving it is priority. Conservation of tree biodiversity through sustainable ecosystem management approaches is important to humankind for various. Trees are life supporting systems and are useful to man as providing extracts and non‐extractive benefits. Additionally, they also provide intellectual, aesthetic, cultural, religious and spiritual sustenance. Protection of forests as scared groves through religious belief systems has been in practice since ancient times around the world. The book attempts to understand the religious practices still in fore in urban context conserving sacred trees conferring extensive benefits in cities.Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics2016Partridge PublishingBook

For work being deposited by its own author: In self-archiving this collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata, I grant OAR@ICRISAT the right to store them and to make them permanently available publicly for free on-line. I declare that this material is my own intellectual property and I understand that OAR@ICRISAT does not assume any responsibility if there is any breach of copyright in distributing these files or metadata. (All authors are urged to prominently assert their copyright on the title page of their work.)

For work being deposited by someone other than its author: I hereby declare that the collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata that I am archiving at OAR@ICRISAT) is in the public domain. If this is not the case, I accept full responsibility for any breach of copyright that distributing these files or metadata may entail.

Clicking on the deposit button indicates your agreement to these terms.