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People and the Peepal, Cultural Attitudes to Sacred Trees and their Conservations in Urban Areas
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http://oar.icrisat.org/9392/
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People and the Peepal, Cultural Attitudes to Sacred Trees and their Conservations in Urban Areas |
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Raju, K V
Manasi, S Nautiyal, S Rashmi, K P |
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Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
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| Description |
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 nonâextractive 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. |
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Partridge Publishing
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2016
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Book
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application/pdf
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en
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http://oar.icrisat.org/9392/1/People%20and%20the%20Peepal.pdf
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 |
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