📖 Disaster Management and Indigenous Practices of Indian Eco-Communities. A Systemic Quest.

This book is about the utility of promoting a global scale and commonly shared platform for dissemination and enrichment of Indigenous knowledge and practices across Eco-communities of India, also documented on a fully developed web-portal branded - A.A.D.I.GYAN.- Augmenting Action For Disaster Management through Indigenous Knowledge (www.aadigyanproject.in) at D.E.I., Dayalbagh, INDIA. This project is a part of community initiatives for documenting, preserving and promoting the role of Indigenous knowledge in mitigating natural and man-made disasters, particularly among Eco-communities. It carries an extensive research database covering various states of India and their respective hub-locations (Eco-community/ tribal regions) with a scope to expand at global scale, containing data and information about indigenous activities related to Agriculture, Medicinal plants, Green technology, Healthcare, Education, Environment Management, Socio-Cultural and Spiritual Practices, Employment, Housing etc. It has revealed significant aspects and applications of traditional knowledge for building long term social, economic and environmental capacities across the major Eco-communities of India.