A Micro Study on the Dependency in Forest Resources in West Bengal: Implications to Livelihood and Poverty of 'santal' Tribe

This book highlights the nature of forest dependency of the 'Santal' Tribe of West Bengal and its impications to livelihood and rural poverty. Based on a primary survey, this study also examined the determinants of common property resource extractions alongwith the Gender and management dimensions of resource use and conservation. This book would be a useful document for the discipline of Economics, Resources, Environment and sociology. It is expected that the findings of the study would be usful to the academicians, planners and policy makers.