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  title info:
    title: Bionomics in the Dragon Kingdom
    sub title: Ecology, Economics and Ethics in Bhutan
  name:
    name part: Tshewang, Ugyen.
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      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Morrison, Jane Gray.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Tobias, Michael Charles.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 162 p. 148 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This compact and elegant work 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 in the Dragon Kingdom 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 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 clear that 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 hydroelectric 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 critical.
  table of contents: Foreword (By an internationally well-known individual) -- Acronyms and Glossary of Bhutanese Terminology -- Introduction -- 1. Environment Matters: Himalayan Happiness -- 2. National Parks & Protected Areas -- 3. Bhutanese Bio-Culturalism & Sustainability -- 4. The Anthropocene in Bhutan -- 5. Water Towers and Mountains in the Dragon Kingdom -- 6. Pragmatic Conscience: Ecological Governance in the Last Shangri-la -- Coda -- Index.
  note: by Ugyen Tshewang, Jane Gray Morrison, Michael Charles Tobias.
  subject:
    topic: Conservation biology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental law
  subject:
    topic: Environmental policy
  subject:
    topic: Animal welfare
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Conservation Biology/Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Nature and Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
  subject:
    topic: Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Philosophy
  classification: QH75-77
  classification: 577
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Fascinating Life Sciences
  identifier: 9783319946559
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94655-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 181113
    record change date: 20191220130541.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-94655-9