Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary: Nature-Culture Linkages in a Sacred Landscape in Indian Himalayan Region

Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary is among the largest protected areas in Western Himalaya. The vast variability in climate, geology, and topography results in a rich biological diversity with varied floral and faunal assemblages. The landscape has many sacred elements, which includes the famous Kedar circuit, comprising of five Shiva temples and many other Hindu shrines. Forest patches, alpine meadows, and trees associated with shrines or local deities are also considered sacred. The landscape has around 172 villages with local communities holding traditional rights of phyto-resource use from the area; 12 villages are located inside the Sanctuary. In recent decades, various natural and anthropogenic challenges have been threatening the nature-culture mix that forms the foundation of sacredness of the landscape. It becomes imperative that policies and action programs to enhance ecological sustainability are appropriated and local cultural beliefs, with embedded conservation ethics, are integrated in the environmental governance and management of the landscape

Benefitting from linguistic diversity for promoting sustainable development in language education -A study of bilingual learning for newly arrived minority language pupils in Norway

Master in Community Development and Social Innovation. VID Stavanger, 2022publishedVersio

Interpersonal Relation and its Effect on Teaching and Learning

There is so many factors which affect teaching learning process such as: Health of the child, Emotional psychological and intellectual, Miscellaneous environmental factors, Media influence, Methods of Learning, Methods of teaching and Maxims of teaching. Out of them the relationship with teacher, parents and peers is the   most important factor which affects teaching learning process most. The problem under study i.e. measurement of interpersonal relationship and its effect uncovering the hidden reality in educational and scientific system operating in interpersonal relationship between students, teachers, principal and other.The study investigated effect of interpersonal relation on teaching and learning process.100 students were randomly selected from English Medium CBSE affiliated secondary Schools of Ranikhet town named as Bearshiva Senior Secondary School and Army Public School Ranikhet of Uttarakhand in India. Nine general questions were formulated and answered descriptively while nine hypotheses in the study were tested using mean, S.D, median, mode, kurtosis, skewness and Product moment method of Co-efficient of correlation statistic were computed from the total sample. It was found that there is a positive moderate interpersonal interaction with teaching learning process. So the relationship between Teacher-Teacher, Teacher-Student, Teacher-Principal, Student-Teacher, Student-Student, Student-principal, Principal-Teacher, Principal-Student, and Human-interaction affects the teaching - learning process. Keywords: Interpersonal relationship, Measurement, Moderate and Positive Co-relation, Teaching learning Proces

Annex 4: The Role of Indigenous and Customary Knowledges in Nature-Culture Linkage

This paper reports some reflections on our participation in the Capacity Building Workshop on Nature-Culture Linkages in Heritage Conservation in Asia and the Pacific, Sacred Landscapes, in September 2017, at the University of Tsukuba. The workshop explored the nature-culture linkages for integrated conservation as part of the World Heritage Capacity Building Programme. The learning framework revolved around, among other activities, a fieldtrip to the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range, World Heritage Cultural Landscape since 2004. In contemplating the capacity building process, we present our reflection regarding three areas relevant to Indigenous and customary practices - governance, language and stewardship - in order to contribute to strengthening nature-culture linkages in the Asia-Pacific region. We also present some challenges for the integration of the sacred into the management of World Heritage sites. We conclude that a greater understanding of Indigenous and customary knowledges and their historical development within World Heritage processes will enable more effective management of heritage sites in the Asia-Pacific region

A partial equilibrium analysis of India's agricultural export to GCC: looking beyond the status quo(2009-2015)

GCC fulfills 60 to 90 percent of its food demand through imports. Currently GCC imports 12 percent of its Agriculture products from India. An effort has been made in this paper to understand the trend and pattern of India’s Agriculture export to GCC with the help of Descriptive Statistics and to find out the impact of tariff reduction on India’s agriculture export to GCC Partial Equilibrium Analysis (Smart Analysis) has been used and BRCA has been used to find out the agriculture products where India has comparative advantage in GCC import market and to make a comparative analysis of GCC countries as a destination of India’s agriculture export. In case of zero tariff in GCC, India’s agriculture export will see highest growth in Saudi Arabia ($106 Million) followed by UAE ($89 Million), Kuwait ($40 Million), Qatar ($23 Million), Oman ($22 Million) and Bahrain ($6 Million). Out of 231 agriculture products, India has highest average number of products with BRCA in Qatar (76), followed by Oman (74), Kuwait (67), Bahrain (59), UAE (52) and Saudi Arabia (28)

Climate Change Perceptions, Data, and Adaptation in the Garhwal Himalayas of India

Himalayan communities that depend on rain-fed agriculture are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change. In this study, we compare local perceptions of climate change from a household survey (n = 251) to climate data obtained from the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS 2.1) and MODIS Terra Snow Cover data product datasets. The study is situated in and around the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, which is located within the Garhwal Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. We found that a large majority of respondents perceive that rainfall is increasing and that snowfall is decreasing, while a smaller majority perceives an increase in summer temperatures and no change in winter temperatures. Agreeing with the perceptions of the majority, the climate data show an increase in summer temperature and winter rainfall. However, the climate data also show an increase in winter temperature, and no monotonic change in snowfall, findings which are contrary to the perception of the majority. Household perceptions of climate change were not associated with adaptation; while many households perceived change, very few reported that they were planning to adapt. To encourage adaptation, communities would benefit from locally appropriate climate data products, and collaboration on best practices with researchers, NGOs, and extension services