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Natural resources management has witnessed perceptible changes in recent years, as there are symptoms of degradation causing irreversible damage to the natural resource base and loss of production potential even as society is striving for sustainable development. This chapter argues that it is necessary to introduce a microlevel approach for achieving prudent management practices in the case of natural resources, citing specific examples from an experiment initiated in Kerala.
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Chattopadhyay, S. (2015). Natural Resource Management: Why Does Micro Matter? Experience from Kerala. In: Dutt, A., Noble, A., Costa, F., Thakur, S., Thakur, R., Sharma, H. (eds) Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9771-9_4
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