Environmental Intimacies from India's North East

List of Figures ix List of Tables x List of Contributors xi Foreword xv Preface xvii PART I Ecological Status Today 1 1 Way We Are: Introduction 3 BIDITA DAS, SABIHA ALAM CHOUDHURY AND INDRANEE PHOOKAN BOROOAH 2 Climate Impact in North East India 17 TSENBENI N LOTHA, KETIYALA, VEVOSA NAKRO AND LATONGLILA JAMIR 3 Status and Management of Water: Assam 35 PALLAVI SHARMA, JYOTI PRAKASH DEKA AND RUNTI CHAUDHURY 4 Climate Change and Tribal Livelihood of North East India 51 SOMENATH BHATTACHARJEE 5 Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour among Mizo Adolescents 68 LALDINPUIA, RINPARI RALTE AND C. ZOTHANMAWIA PART II Embracing Environmental Intimacies 87 6 Bodo Community and Its Intimacy with the Environment 89 MAYURI BARMAN 7 The Folk Culture and Ritual Practices of the Karbi 103 BAMONKIRI RONGPI 8 Luh and the Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh 116 PEMA DROMA AND LEEYIR ETE 9 Paying Back to Nature: Concerns for Trees in Hijan Hirao 125 M. C. ARUNKUMAR 10 The Sacred Groves of Meghalaya 135 BAHARUL ISLAM LASKAR 11 Nature-Based Livelihood and Economy: Tripura 147 BISWENDU BHATTACHARJEE 12 Eco-Feminism in the Context of the Khasi of Meghalaya 162 REKHA M. SHANGPLIANG PART III Conservation Practices 177 13 Coal Mining versus Oikophilia: Changi Village, Nagaland 179 AMRI TIASUNEP 14 Conservation at Selbalgre Wildlife Reserve: Garo Hills, Meghalaya 190 LOBENI KIKON AND JESMIN BEGUM 15 Community-Based Ecotourism and Conservation of Nature: Manas National Park 208 ANNESHA BORAH 16 Re-envisioning Disaster Management in Assam 224 HAPPY BAGLARI AND MOUSUM DUARI 17 Conclusion: The Way Forward 241 INDRANEE PHOOKAN BOROOAH, SABIHA ALAM CHOUDHURY AND BIDITA DAS Index 243