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This book is an attempt to highlight human dimension of development and will highlight it´s interactive ecological relationship. Since development has been planned for the better livelihood conditions of the people and to give pace to it technological intervention has been introduced quite long ago. But with the coming up of developmental projects of any magnitude human dimension has always been ignored which resulted into the unresolved problems of the day. The problems are in form of climate change, unscientific extraction of natural resources, ignorance of human aspects, failure of environmental impact assessments, failure of afforestation drives etc. are few to count. These failure are questioning the existing model of development and also questioning the ecological interactive relationship between human being and developmental initiatives. How disturbed interactive relationship can be restored by introducing new model i.e. Benefit sharing participatory model is the sole purpose behind this academic attempt.

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Academically Sociologist and Environmental Sociologist by training and expertise, Dr. Slariya is presently working as Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh. He has been Post-doc fellow of University of Turku, Finland.

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