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Sundarbans and its Ecosystem Services

Traditional Knowledge, Customary Sustainable Use and Community Based Innovation

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Editors:
  1. Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

    1. Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  • Presents a comprehensive story of the Sundarbans with a focus on Indigenous local knowledge
  • Brings institutional vulnerability aspects and power-sharing arrangements into analyses of resource management
  • Challenges the market-based approach in valuing the natural resources

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction: The Sundarbans as Our Mind

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir
    Pages 1-20

  3. Current State of Terrestrial Ecosystem: Evidence of Resource Vulnerability

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Tanjila Afrin
    Pages 21-37

  4. Current State of Biodiversity in Marine and Coastal Ecosystem of the Sundarbans

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Md. Shah Paran
    Pages 39-53

  5. Traditional Knowledge and Customary Sustainable Practices in Terrestrial Ecosystem

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Tanjila Afrin
    Pages 55-65

  6. Traditional Knowledge and Customary Sustainable Practices in Coastal and Marine Ecosystem

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Mostafa Walid Pasha
    Pages 67-85

  7. Multiple Values of Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Md. Shah Paran, Mostafa Walid Pasha
    Pages 87-111

  8. Multiple Values of Nature and Transformational Pathways

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Md. Shah Paran, Mostafa Walid Pasha, Mohammad Saeed Islam
    Pages 113-135

  9. Climate Change and Its Impact: Sundarbans as a Natural Wall

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Md. Shah Paran, Mostafa Walid Pasha, Mahtarin Haq Meem
    Pages 137-157

  10. Biodiverse Adaptation to Climate Change: Community-Based Mangrove Agro Aqua Silvi (CMAAS) Culture

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Tanjila Afrin
    Pages 159-188

  11. Traditional Resource Users and Claiming of Rights

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Mostafa Walid Pasha, Md. Shah Paran
    Pages 189-206

  12. Resilience and TRUs’ Contribution Towards SDGs and Aichi Biodiversity Targets

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Tanjila Afrin, Mohammad Saeed Islam
    Pages 207-231

  13. Human-Nature Cooperation for Well-Being: Community Understanding on ‘One Health Approach’ in COVID-19 Era

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, Md. Shah Paran
    Pages 233-250

  14. Conclusions: A Post-2020 Biodiversity Takeaway

    • Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir
    Pages 251-263

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 265-271
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About this book

This edited volume focuses on the largest single tract contiguous mangrove forest in the world— the Sundarbans— exploring traditional knowledge, customary sustainable use and community-based innovation. The book analyses the current state of the Sundarbans, its multiple values and ecosystem services, to demonstrate that Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is essential for the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Not only does this play an integral role in realising SDG 14 (life below water) and SDG 15 (life on land), it also actively contributes towards achieving many other goals and targets. It contributes a new understanding of sustainability by bringing human-nature relationships in view of the renewed interest in biodiversity and climate change— heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The book links scientific knowledge with multi, inter, trans- disciplinary nature of ILK for sustainable development collected from the ground. It challenges the market-based approach in valuing the natural resources, and demonstrates that the valuation of environmental resources through market penetration pricing does not reckon the social benefits and values coproduced through complementarity between humans and nature.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

About the editor

Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir is a professor at the Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently holding the charge of the Chairman of the Department. He is the chairperson of Unnayan Onneshan— a Dhaka based multidisciplinary think-tank, vice chairperson of IUCN Asia Regional Members Committee and chairperson of IUCN National Committee of Bangladesh. He has led numerous projects for diverse organisations including governments, development partners and international organisations at home and abroad. His latest books are Numbers and Narratives in Bangladesh’s Economic Development (2021), Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Developing Countries: State, Citizenship and Transformation (2021), and the edited volume, COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Response, Rights & Resilience (2021).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sundarbans and its Ecosystem Services

  • Book Subtitle: Traditional Knowledge, Customary Sustainable Use and Community Based Innovation

  • Editors: Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

  • Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3000-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2999-1Published: 14 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3002-7Published: 15 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3000-3Published: 13 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2523-3084

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Development Studies, Development Economics, Sustainable Development

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