This course requires consultation of number of textbooks (partially), reports and peer-reviewed papers. All the resources required such as textbooks, reports and peer-reviewed papers along with additional reading materials will be provided with each module and topic through Canvas.
Textbooks
European Union Larger than tigers: inputs for a strategic approach to biodiversity conservation in Asia: Synthesis Report. European Union Publication, 2018.
Marks, Robert B. China: Its Environment and History. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.
Boomgaard, Peter. “Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History.” In A Companion to Global Environmental History, edited by J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewartuldin, 79–95. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012. doi:10.1002/9781118279519.chapter 5.
Ramakrishnan, P. S., and Unesco, eds. Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Managing Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Pub. Co, 2002.
Makoto Inoue and Ganesh P. Shivakoti. “Multi-Level Forest Governance in Asia: Concepts, Challenges and the Way Forward | SAGE Publications Inc.2015.
Other Required Reading Materials
Myers, Norman, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina G. Mittermeier, Gustavo AB Da Fonseca, and Jennifer Kent. “Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities.” Nature 403, no. 6772 (2000): 853–858.
Squires, Dale. “Biodiversity Conservation in Asia.” Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 144–159.
Agrawal, A., A. Chhatre, and R. Hardin. “Changing Governance of the World’s Forests.” Science 320, no. 5882 (June 13, 2008): 1460–62. doi:10.1126/science.1155369.
Loucks, Colby, Michael B. Mascia, Andy Maxwell, Keavuth Huy, Kong Duong, Nareth Chea, Barney Long, Nick Cox, and Teak Seng. “Wildlife Decline in Cambodia, 1953–2005: Exploring the Legacy of Armed Conflict.” Conservation Letters 2, no. 2 (April 1, 2009): 82–92.
“The Road Ahead: Protecting Tigers from Asia’s Infrastructure Development Boom | Publications 2016| WWF.” World Wildlife Fund. Accessed June 21, 2017.
Mather, A. S. “Recent Asian Forest Transitions in Relation to Forest-Transition Theory.” International Forestry Review 9, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 491–502. (China, India and Vietnam case)
Brandt, Jodi S., Teri Allendorf, Volker Radeloff, and Jeremy Brooks. “Effects of National-Level Forest Management Regimes on Non-Protected Forests of the Himalaya (China, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar).” Conservation Biology, March 1, 2017.
Leimona, Beria, Meine van Noordwijk, Rudolf de Groot, and Rik Leemans. “Fairly Efficient, Efficiently Fair: Lessons from Designing and Testing Payment Schemes for Ecosystem Services in Asia.” Ecosystem Services 12 (April 1, 2015): 16–28.
Mohammed, Abrar J., Makoto Inoue, Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Tapan K. Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Mangala De Zoysa, Hari Kaskoyo, Juan M. Pulhin, and Rose J. Peras. “Analysis of National Forest Programs for REDD+ Implementation in Six South and Southeast Asia Countries.” Forest Systems 25, no. 2 (July 20, 2016): 061.
Wilkinson, Graham and Francis E. Putz. “Report on the Asia-Pacific Workshop Reduced-Impact Logging: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies in the Emerging Forest Carbon Economy”. 2012.
Sugiura, Katsuaki, Takuyuki Yoshioka, and Koki Inoue. “Improvement of Forest Management in Asia, through Assessment of Forest Stewardship Council Certification.” Forest Science and Technology 9, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 164–70.