eprintid: 9392
rev_number: 11
eprint_status: archive
userid: 17
dir: disk0/00/00/93/92
datestamp: 2016-03-24 05:55:57
lastmod: 2016-10-18 10:39:25
status_changed: 2016-03-24 05:55:57
type: book
metadata_visibility: show
contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Raju, K V
creators_name: Manasi, S
creators_name: Nautiyal, S
creators_name: Rashmi, K P
icrisatcreators_name: Raju, K V
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: Centre for Research in Urban Affairs, Institute for Social and Economic Change (Bangalore)
affiliation: Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic Change (Bangalore)
affiliation: Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic Change (Bangalore)
country: India
title: People and the Peepal,
Cultural Attitudes to Sacred Trees and their Conservations in Urban Areas
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
divisions: CRPS2
crps: crp1.1
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Growing urbanization, Protecting the ecosystem, Intellectual, Aesthetic, Cultural
abstract: Growing 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.
date: 2016
date_type: published
number: -
publisher: Partridge Publishing
place_of_pub: India
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-1-4828-5876-1
related_url_url: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=People+and+the+Peepal%2C+Cultural+Attitudes+to+Sacred+Trees+and+their+Conservations+in+Urban+Areas&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
related_url_type: pub
citation:   Raju, K V and Manasi, S and Nautiyal, S and Rashmi, K P  (2016) People and the Peepal, Cultural Attitudes to Sacred Trees and their Conservations in Urban Areas.    Partridge Publishing, India.  ISBN 978-1-4828-5876-1     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/9392/1/People%20and%20the%20Peepal.pdf