CONTENTS:
1. Hills and Forest in Eastern India: Glimpses of the Himalayas in Traditional Literature.
2. Forest, Forest Degradation and Afforestation: Emerging Survival Challenges of the Tribals.
3. Local Institutions and Forest Governance in Himalayas.
4. Interrogating the Praxis of Sustainable Forest Management and People's Empowerment in the District of Jalpaiguri.
5. Colonial State, Nepali Migration and the Forest of Assam.
6. The Forest Villages and the Forest Dwellers of Assam and the Forest Rights Act 2006.
7. Ethnography of Wilderness: The Eco-Politics of Sacred Groves.
8. Forest and Human Health: Examples from Dihang Dibang Biosphere Reserve of Arunachal Himalaya.
9. The Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights Act) 2006: Relevance for North East India.
10. British Forest Policy and the Alienation of Forest Dwelling Communities in Darjeeling: A Historical Analysis.
11. Changing Pattern of Land Use and Deforestation - A Colonial Legacy of Darjeeling in the Himalayas.
12. Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Management in Buxa Tiger Reserve, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India.
13. Wildlife Conservation and Wilderness Preservation Movement in Northern West Bengal.
14. Traditional Ecology and Druk-Gyalpo Ugyen Wanchuk's Efforts to Develop them for Bhutanese Modernisation.
15. Forest Resource, Management and Conservation Policies in Bhutan.