Sustainable Management and Conservation of Environmental Resources in India (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chakravarty, Sumit; Shukla, Gopal; Kumar, Munesh; Bhat, Jahangeer A.; I, Vineeta

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Considers important research topics in sustainability and natural resource conservation. Discusses agroforestry for biodiversity conservation and nutritional security, how sustainability can improve lives of locals etc. Covers topics like carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems, approaches to repairing soil through halophytes etc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040013861
• Artikelnr.: 72257807

Autorenporträt

Sumit Chakravarty, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Department of Forestry, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, West Bengal, India. With over 20 years in forestry training, research, and development, he has published many research papers, book chapters, and books and has completed research projects on forest ecology, medicinal plants, and agroforestry. He has trained more than 50 master's and doctoral students and has attended more than 50 national and international conferences as presenter and invited speaker. Vineeta, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Forestry at Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, West Bengal, India. She has more than eight years of teaching and research experience in the field of forestry, focusing on ethnobotany, non-timber forest products, agroforestry, and medicinal plants. She has authored research papers, book chapters, and two books. Jahangeer A. Bhat, PhD, is associated with the Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership at Piramal University, Mumbai, India. Formerly, he was associated with the College of Horticulture and Forestry at Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, India, and was Head of the Department of Forestry at the College of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry at Fiji National University. He has been instrumental in developing higher education and technical and vocational education and training streams of forestry and allied programs. Munesh Kumar, PhD, is Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at H.N.B. Garhwal University, Uttarakhand, India. He formerly served at Mizoram University, Aizawl, India. His areas of interest are forest ecology and biodiversity, agroforestry, and ethnobotany. He has more than 17 years of teaching and research experience and has published many papers in international and national journals as well as several books. Dr. Kumar has also guest edited the journals Land, Frontier of Environmental Sciences, and Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, and is an Associate Editor for PLOS-Climate Journal. Gopal Shukla, PhD, is Professor of Forestry at North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, India. He was formerly affiliated with Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, West Bengal, India. Dr.Shukla has teaching and research experience of more than 12 years. He has worked on projects that include the National Agricultural Innovation Project, National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture, and others. He has published many research papers, book chapters, and several books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Nurturing Natural Resources for Reducing Environmental
Pollution 2. Vegetation Dynamics and Climate Change: A Study of the Indian
Himalayan Region 3. Carbon Stock Potential and Ecosystem Services
Provisioned by Major Land-Use Systems in Southern Assam, India: A
Meta-Analysis 4. Floral Diversity in Various Land Use Types in Jodhpur
District of Arid Rajasthan, India 5. Forest Fire Detection and Monitoring
for Its Management: Remote Sensing and a GIS/Geospatial Technology Approach
6. Agroforestry Systems for Ecosystem Services in India 7. Agroforestry
System for Improved Above and Below Ground Biodiversity 8. Agroforestry
Systems: An Effective Tool for Carbon Sequestration 9. Traditional
Agroforestry Systems of North-Eastern India: An Overview 10. Evidence-Based
Agroforestry Systems as Climate-Resilient Farming Practices for Improving
Livelihood and Sustainability in India 11. Sericulture-Based Agroforestry
Systems for Livelihood and Nutritional Security in India: An Overview 12.
Potential of Different Soil Organic Amendments in Agroforestry Practices to
Enhance Carbon Sequestration and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emission 13.
Restoration of Saline and Sodic Soil Through Using Halophytes as
Agroforestry Components 14. Geochemistry and Health Status of Soils in the
Agroforestry Dominated HRML Regions of Idukki, Southern Western Ghats,
India 15. Sustainable Soil Health Management Through Agroforestry in the
Soils of Arunachal Pradesh, India 16. Large Cardamom-Based Agroforestry
System for Livelihood Security in Sikkim Himalayas 17. Traditional
Knowledge, Ethnic Foods, and Their Conservation of the Indigenous Lepcha
Community of Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya 18. Remote Sensing and Machine
Learning Applications for Smart Precision Agriculture: A Review