Books by Sunil Nautiyal

This book has been produced as a part of the project ¿Social-Ecological Systems at the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition¿. It addresses transition processes in agriculture and society triggered by urbanization, focusing on Bengaluru as an example of a rapidly growing megacity in India. Adopting a holistic, multidisciplinary approach embedded within a social-ecological systems research framework, it explores how the physical and socio-economic landscapes have led to changes in economic priorities, which have overpowered ecological and traditional priorities with regard to ecosystem governance. Allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of this unexplored dimension of socio-ecological systems, this book is a valuable resource for international researchers, scholars and master¿s students in the field of environmental science, socio-ecology, forestry and agriculture.

Human effects on ecosystems are a big concern all over the world and it is particularly important to understand human influences on the rural and peri- urban landscape which are getting transformed because of the process of rapid urbanization. The current study was undertaken to understand the change process in peri-urban and rural landscapes and analyzed the various driving forces that are leading such changes in land use and land cover. The theoretical approach developed here is based on standard driving forces which influence the farmer's decision and behaviour. In the process of urbanization, the main driving forces which influence farmers' decision are market forces, socio-economic and cultural changes, policies and national economy. These are widely accepted from a global to a local scale. However, knowledge on micro level perspective of urbanization and its impact on socio-economic and ecological development of rural and peri-urban landscapes, and long term implications within the context of sustainable development is limited in Indian context.

This study presents authentic data compiled from field experiments and investigations, and provides a point of reference for any future changes associated with anthropogenic activity in semiarid ecosystems.