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People and the Peepal
Cultural Attitudes to Sacred Trees and Their Conservation in Urban Areas
Growing Urbanization and Its Impacts
Growing urbanization and its negative impacts on urban ecology have been felt acutely, the world over. Protecting the ecosystem is a major issue on the global agenda and preserving it is a priority.
Conservation of Tree Biodiversity
Conservation of tree biodiversity through sustainable ecosystem management approaches is important to humankind for various reasons. Trees are life supporting systems and are useful to man as providing extractive and non-extractive benefits. Additionally, they also provide intellectual, aesthetic, cultural, religious and spiritual sustenance.
Protection of Sacred Forests
Protection of forests as sacred groves through religious belief systems has been in practice since ancient times around the world.
Focus of the Book
The book attempts to understand the religious practices still in force in urban contexts conserving sacred trees conferring extensive benefits in cities.
