01482nas a2200109   4500008004100000245006300041210006200104260001200166520111100178100001401289856006901303       2014                        eng d00aPrevention of Degradation Through Community Participation:0 aPrevention of Degradation Through Community Participation  aLeipzig3 aPrevention of Degradation Through Community Participation: A Pragmatic Approach for Environmental Governance in Northeast India (Abstract) Environmental governance is the most daunting task fa ced by most of developing countries today specially where poverty is widespread and natural resources abundant. Poor people there depend heavily on the environmental resources for their livelihood and the resultant degradation in turn depletes the food stock for the poor thus further aggravates poverty. The growth oriented development in those counties does not reach to the bottom. Rather to counter industrial pollution more restrictions are imposed on entry into and use of environmental resources. Ultimately condition of poor further deteriorates without any meaningful environmental governance. This present paper is case study to suggest suitable model for environmental governance in a resource based developing economy, which on the one hand can help the poor to get adequate life support from the environment and on the other hand induce the poor to preserve and improve their surrounding environment.1 aSen, Alok  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3379