The Namche Conference: May 24-26, 2003 People, Park, and Mountain Ecotourism Participants and Presentations: Dr. S. K. Balachander

Dr. S. K. Balachander (Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India) Professor, Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development, Loyola Academy, Secunderabad, India; email: skbala_ecology@yahoo.com Abstract Non-equilibrium, Participatory, Human Ecology - a New Paradigm Ecology in the Making: Contexts, Processes, and Communities The paper deals with a new paradigm ecology of communities, in changing contexts,of peri-urban edges. The methodological and conceptual processes, to access, dynamics of community-based sustainable development,is presented. A pragmatic open-ended perspective, of 'action' research and human ecology in the making is suggested, for policy, participatory practioners, NGO's, and ecologists. Keywords: nonequilibrium, human ecology, participatory, action, reearch

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