Biorights: The Neo-economic Conservation Paradigm for Global South (Studies in Ecological Economics)

This book evaluates local conservation successes of global south in the climate milieu, as an empirical evidence of 'Bio-rights' of commons at community-ecosystem interface for sustainable intensification of nature's goods and services. Bio-rights is a right-based neo-economic conservation paradigm that compensates the opportunity costs incurred in conservation efforts by the marginal communities, living near globally important ecosystems and dependent on it for their livelihood, through payments from environment services. The book would bring forth the true value of circular economic interventions in socio-ecological conservation, shaped through sustainable human interactions with nature. This multilevel study of conservation science serves an interdisciplinary academia, consistent with conventions on climate change, bio-diversity and sustainable development, to establish links between conservation priorities and development objectives. Herein, Bio-rights is introduced as a 'design approach' for production linked sustainable development, supplemented with case studies from the east.

Dr. Dipayan Dey is an adept professional with more than a decade of comprehensive experience in tertiary teaching of Plant Ecology and Environmental Science in Delhi University India and 25 years of acumen in environmental research, planning and ecosystem management towards sustainable environment development in global south. He has been a visit faculty and research consultant to several international institute of repute including UN University and Tokyo University in Japan, Chicago de Paul University US and others in South Asia. Presently, as the Chair (Research and Planning) in South Asian Forum for Environment, a regional CSO in consultative status with UN Environment & UNFCCC, Dr. Dey is supervising action-research programs on Natural Resource Management; Habitat Evaluation and Restoration Ecology, Strategic Impact Assessment Studies, Biodiversity Indexing, Agricultural Carbon Sequestration, Downscaling Climate Impact, Hazard Mitigation, Risk Analysis and Adaptive Mitigationthrough Community Based Interventions under the aegis of several international development agencies like UNEP, UNDP, IUCN, GDN, GIZ, World Bank, APN, ICIMOD, IWMI BES etc. He has done commendable work and experimentation in neo-economic conservation paradigm of 'Biorights' of commons in five South Asian countries that has been incorporated in the 12th National Plan Document of India and referred in AR 6 of IPCC. He has laudable expertise in research designing, developing action plan or organizing activities and resolving procedural/ logistical problems as appropriate to the completion timeline of project objectives. Dr. Dey is also an effective communicator with excellent relationship management skills & honed analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.
Prof. Joyashree Roy is a professor and renowned researcher, who has been participating as coordinating lead author on global assessment reports including IPCC, since Fourth assessment report, special reports and is continuing in Sixth Assessment Report. She has contributed as lead authors in Global Energy assessment, Stern Review report etc. and as well engaged in the planning, development and implementation of ideas for social impact. She owns wide international professional experience in the US, Europe, Africa, South Asia, Asia and the Pacific and is widely accomplished in research grant, coordination and successful long-term project management. Prof. Roy has been working for more than two decades closely with central and state governments in India and now with Bangladesh Government for energy sector, developmental sector policy framing research support. Her areas of Key Expertise include sustainable development and sustainability transitions, climate policy; climate finance; Green Climate Fund; project/programme formulation; climate action planning; capacity building; Economics (Micro Economics, Quantitative Techniques in Economics); Resource, Energy and Environmental Economics; Natural Resource Accounting; Economics of Climate Change; Research and Analysis. For more than two decades Ms Roy is imparting training and education, especially for early career scholars and policy makers in South Asian and South East Asian region. Prof Roy is serving at AIT, Bangkok in School of Environment Resources and Development since Aug 2018 and presently as Bangabandhu Chair Professor, Department of Energy Environment and Climate Change. She was at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India 1991 and presently is the Founder Advisor-Global Change Programme and SYLFF-JU Programme 2018, also Professor of Economics (on leave currently) 2002 - 2018 ICSSR National Fellow -affiliated to Jadavpur University 2014 - 2015 Head of the Department of Economics 2006 - 2008 Coordinator, Global Change Programme 2001 - 2018 Initiated and Coordinating the Climate Change and Human Dimensions Research across faculties within the university. Prof Roy has a total of 227 publications of which, h index14 (SCOPUS); as on August 2018. 25 (Google Scholar, all) as on May 2018 i10-Index: 46 Citations: 6561 (Google scholar)