Disaster Risk Management

CHAPTER 8

Disasters and Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs)

Preparing Governance for Resilient MAP-based Livelihood in Uttarakhand

Vinay SharmaPramod ChandraRajat Agrawal

Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

 

Introduction

Around the world the medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are extensively traded and considered as an essential commodity for producing various herbal-based products including herbal drugs (Lubbe and Verpoorte 2011). As a result, these resources have become a vital source of livelihood and employment for many rural communities in the biodiversity-rich regions of the world. In the Indian context, the domain and role of MAPs in the form of herbal remedies and formulations ...