ABSTRACT
This book is devoted to the search for environmental self-sufficiencies in highland and headwater regions. Its aim is one promoted by the founders of modern India who called upon communities to seek self-reliance and to develop ways of life which allow a harmonious, non-destructive balance with natural systems (Gandhi, 1969). The routes towards this condition may have been redefined by modern environmental managers, adapted both in technological and cultural terms, however, the search continues for systems of land husbandry, systems of environmental management, which are self-sustainable and which do not place a tax on the environment nor require subsidy from outside.
