Status of Common Property Resources  (Cprs) and Rural Poor Livelihoods: a Case  Study in Theni District of Tamilnadu

Dr. A. Kannan; A. Ramar

Volume : II, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Status of Common Property Resources (Cprs) and Rural Poor Livelihoods: a Case Study in Theni District of Tamilnadu

Dr. A. Kannan, A. Ramar

Abstract :

The Common Property Resources (CPRs) are still playing a crucial role in providing livelihood sustenance to the local masses in general and rural poor in particular for long. But in the recent periods, the quantity and quality of such vital resources have been degrading conditions due to a number of social, economic and political reasons. But this study is primarily aimed to identify the category of such CPRs, pattern of utilization and the reason to go down of such vital CPR in the rural pocket of Tamil Nadu in general and Theni district that is study district in particular. This paper is wholly based on the secondary sources of information in Theni district of Tamilnadu during the year 2006-07 to 2011-12.