Biodiversity Assessment, Conservation, and Indigenous People: GeoConvergence Philosophy

Dr. Dipankar Saha
ARS Scientist & Head
Regional Research Station
of ICAR-CAZRI

Dipankar Saha is an Ecologist and Biodiversity Scientists with ICAR’s Agriculture Research Service (ARS) and functioning within Natural Resources Management Division (NRM) having assigned responsibility to facilitate a regional team at Regional Research Station of ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute (An ISO 9001:2015 Certified Organization) addressing entire cold arid ecosystem of Indian in terms of the multiplicity of natural resources and its management balancing the eco-centric and anthropocentric philosophy of developmental paradigm of livelihood rejuvenation amongst mountain dwellers including indigenous communities inculcating the principles of bio-economic equilibria in delivering the social equity and environmental justice.

Abridging the technicalities of varied transects of geo-spatial techniques infusing a ray of hope to make this high-altitude niche assessable, predictable in terms of recurrent natural resources appraisal leading to systematic resources-governance (developing a functional loop of homoeostatic utility and conservation of natural habitat) as a part of effective and efficient policy infusion in implementable decision matrix.

This global level Geo-convergence workshop will fulfil the so far unaccomplished initiative at global and every regional level possible with all feasible collaborative approaches through this accelerator approaches.