Woodfuel Energy Supply to Rural India: Institutional Constraints

by Baidya, Kedar N

ISBN: 9789354619335
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Imprint : Associated Publishing Company
Year : 2024
Price : Rs. 4395.00
Biblio : x+115p.,figs.,tabls.,bib., 23 cm

Author Profile

Dr. Kedarnath Baidya obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. degrees from Calcutta University. He also had the AIFC Diploma from the Indian Forest College, Dehradun. After serving Government of India for few years he joined the Indian Forest Service in 1968. In 1979-80 he had a training in Ecosystem Management and Environmental Protection of the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. He received Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Tasmania, Australia in 1983. Recently, he obtained his Ph.D. from Gulbarga University, Karnataka. Several articles by him have already been published within the country and abroad concerning forest policy and resource management. <BR> Dr. Baidya is currently a Conservator of Forests, Government of Karnataka and engaged in research activities relating to the issues in the involvement of local groups and communities in resource management and resource utilization.

About The Book

The title of this work suggests that growing more trees is only one side of the coin and that the protection of the trees and the distribution of the woodproducts to the needy segments of the rural communities is not merely the other side of the coin but the core problem of rural development. It is common knowledge that the benefits and advantages that are attributed to the several government sponsord programmes meant for the rural population have never reached the rural poor. This is not a deliberate omission but a lack of proper strategy to indentify specific target groups. The author has put forth the plea that in the absence of a more effective policy orientation and policy objectives, the social forestry project may not mean much in effecting a change in the social and economic condition of the rural poor.