Changing eco-system social system links affecting rural livelihood in fragile environments

Ecosystem services and their contributions to livelihoods of the people exhibit significant diversities. Attention to this aspect, generally ignored by mainstream aggregative discourse on ecological services and associated policy processes call for higher priority and its closer integration with the mainstream thrust of the discourse. Because of the very nature of methods and tools of investigations as well as availability of data (which are more macro-focused), the diversity and micro-dimensions of the debated components generally get low coverage. But once one looks at the role of ecosystem..