TY  - BOOK
AU  - Casimir,Michael J.
TI  - Floating Economies: The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India 
SN  - 9781800730298
AV  - GF662.D35 
U1  - 304.20954/6 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - India
KW  - Dal Lake
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Tourism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - agricultural
KW  - anthropology
KW  - civic
KW  - close knit communities
KW  - communities
KW  - conservation
KW  - country life
KW  - cultural social
KW  - dal lake
KW  - democracy
KW  - ecological condition
KW  - ecology
KW  - economic history
KW  - engaging
KW  - environmental conservation protection
KW  - floating economies
KW  - india
KW  - intermeshing economy
KW  - kashmir
KW  - lakeside settings
KW  - multidisciplinary approach
KW  - natural settings
KW  - nature
KW  - neighbors
KW  - political situation
KW  - political
KW  - progressive degradation
KW  - realistic
KW  - retrospective
KW  - social science
KW  - social structure
KW  - socioeconomic strategies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Acronyms --; Notes on Text --; Introduction --; PART I --; Chapter 1. Th e Valley of Kashmir and Dal Lake --; Chapter 2. Kashmir’s Early History and the Conversion to Islam --; Chapter 3. The Social Organization of Contemporary Kashmiri Muslim Society --; Chapter 4. The Market Gardeners of Dal Lake: Early Accounts --; Chapter 5. The Market Gardeners’ Economy Today --; Chapter 6. Th e Productivity of Lacustrine Market Gardening --; Chapter 7. The Houseboat Owner Community and the Development of Tourism on Dal Lake --; Chapter 8. The Gad Hanz: Th e Last Fishers on the Dal --; PART II --; Chapter 9. Th e Degradation of the Dal: Causes and Impacts --; Chapter 10. The Political Ecology of a Degrading Lake: A Paradise Lost? --; Appendix A --; Appendix B --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers.  Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation. Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, the author deals with the socioeconomic strategies of the communities whose livelihoods are embedded here and analyses the ecological condition of the Dal, and the reasons for its progressive degradation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730304?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730304
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800730304/original
ER  -