Chapter 1. Protecting forest structure and functions for resilience and sustainability concerns in the changing world.- Chapter 2. Understanding the drivers of forest degradation.- Chapter 3. The so-called modern ‘sustainable forestry’ destroys wilderness, old-growth forest landscapes and ecological services world-wide: A short first-hand review and global narrative on the use of ‘growth-and-yield’ as a destructive and even impossible goal.- Chapter 4. Gangetic Plains of India: High on the water and air pollution map.- Chapter 5. Understanding wildfires and designing a sustainable future by solutions based on forest-society relationships.- Chapter 6. Is the gender agenda of Nepal’s Community Forestry at risk due to commercial transitions.- Chapter 7. Diversity of forest genes: Impacts on the structure and function of soil ecosystems under changing climate.- Chapter 8. Plant-herbivorous insect interactions in forest ecosystems: overview and perspectives to mitigate losses.- Chapter 9. Beyond the biophysical: contribution of community forestry in building socio-ecological resilience.- Chapter 10. Biodiversity and Biomass Carbon Dynamics: Insights from Long-Term Monitoring in the Western Ghats.- Chapter 11. Peri-urban protected forests in peril: Insights from case studies in two Indian megacities.- Chapter 12. Mapping the extent of invasive species – An assessment based on high-resolution data for selected species in parts of Eastern Himalaya in Sikkim.- Chapter 13. Groundwater Dependent Vegetation to address the loss of ecosystems dependent on groundwater resources.- Chapter 14. Groundwater Dependent Vegetation to address the loss of ecosystems dependent on groundwater resources.- Chapter 15. Application of dynamic vegetation models for climate change impact studies.- Chapter 16. Agroforestry approaches in the restoration of peatland landscapes in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.- Chapter 17. SmarteR approach for the mapping of invasive plant species.- Chapter 18. Mapping and identification of trees using semantic segmentation deep learning neural network.- Chapter 19. Application of biophysical, soil, and vegetation indices to better understand forest dynamics and develop strategies for forest conservation.- Chapter 20. Emission Reductions Program for Addressing Drivers of Deforestation and Forest Degradation: An insight from the Terai Arc Landscape in Southern Nepal.- Chapter 21. Public Interests and Private Incentives in Designing an Ecological Payment Systems.- Chapter 22. Awareness and conservation program at an ecotourism site in Langkawi Island, Malaysia.