Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Forest Landscapes of the Southern Western Ghats, India
Author: Forest Landscapes of the Southern Western Ghats, India
Author: B. R. RameshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscapes
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Forest landscapes of the southern western Ghats, India
Author: CollectifPublisher: Institut français de Pondichéry
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The Western Ghats forests are endowed with large species and habitat diversity, which is nowadays under threat by increasing demographic pressure and changing land use. To address these challenges, a novel and comprehensive approach is sought from the principles of landscape ecology. Morpho-pedological features are used to delineate landscape units all over the Western Ghats of Kerala, among which the Western Anamalai region is chosen to elucidate the relative influence of physical factors, bioclimate and anthropogenic pressures on the characteristics of natural vegetation and on the status of the vertebrate fauna. Highlighting patterns of resource utilization by proximal and distant stakeholders, the book goes about identifying value-based management zones, while proposing management strategies for conservation and sustainable development.
Livelihood Strategies in Southern India
Author: Seema PurushothamanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 8132216261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This volume is a compilation of essays that focus on livelihood issues faced by forest communities of the southern Western Ghats region of India. Communities living along the fringes of forests are, more often than not, overlooked in academic and policy discussions. However, they face considerable pressures, being sandwiched between conservation endeavours and the forces of urbanization and commercialization. The chapters in this book provide an insight into the kinds of livelihood issues these communities face and the potential means that can be adopted to sustain these livelihoods. This volume provides a unique alternative perspective by locating livelihood issues within socio-ecological-economic narratives of communities living at the intersection of the three southern Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and suggests directions for policies to address these challenges.
The Southern Western Ghats
Author: Sathis Chandran NairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This Is Perhaps The Most Comprehensive Study Of The Status Of One Of The Country`S Sensitive And Threatened Richest Tropical Moist Forest Ecosystem Of The Southern Western Ghats Of Kerala. The Study Iis Covered In 7 Chapters - Appendices - References - Glossary - Maps And Coloured Photographs. Condition Good.
Delivering tree genetic resources in forest and landscape restoration
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251384266
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
In the last 25 years, almost 50 million hectares of primary forest have been lost due to deforestation. Numerous international initiatives such as the Bonn Challenge and the New York Declaration on Forests have set ambitious goals to restore degraded and deforested lands by 2030. Realizing global commitments on forest and landscape restoration (FLR) will require the establishment of billions of trees on millions of hectares of degraded land to address the triple crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and failing food systems. A significant amount of FLR will require tree planting or increasing tree cover in production landscapes.
Entangled Ecologies as Metaphors of State Design
Author: Mathew A. VarghesePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031465180
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book takes a unique approach to the ethnographic and analytical explorations of ecologies in the making. The core theme of the work will be the emerging anthropocene contexts that simultaneously bring unprecedented human interactions with the non-human as well as the emergence of hybrid ecologies. There will be dependence on existing literature, own ethnographic work that has already went into this, the closer introspection of immediate geographies as well as the pertinent debates. There has been a reconfiguration of meaning and nature of spaces in the context of social relations produced by neo-liberal globalization. States as they have been are transforming and are influenced by policies made beyond borders. This work is marked out by careful enquiry on ecologies in the making with the backdrop of distinct regional developmentalist trajectories as well as specific ethnography from Kerala, South-West India.
The High Ranges
Author: Sathis Chandran NairPublisher: Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Principles and practice of forest landscape restoration : case studies from the drylands of Latin America
Author: Adrian C. NewtonPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831713404
Category : Forest ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Biomass Burning in South and Southeast Asia
Author: Krishna Prasad VadrevuPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429666551
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Volume 1 of a two volume set, this book is a self-contained, state-of-the-art analysis of remote sensing, ground-based, and spatial techniques used for characterizing biomass burning events and pollution. It is a collective achievement of renowned scientists working throughout South and Southeast Asia. They discuss the complexity of vegetation patterns, biomass characteristics, fire distribution, drivers of fires, and several examples of the use of novel satellite algorithms for mapping and monitoring biomass burning events. The book is highly interdisciplinary and integrates earth science and environmental science including ecology, fire science, spatial geography, remote sensing, and geospatial technologies. Unique in its discussion of the sources and the causes of biomass burning and atmospheric research in South and Southeast Asia. Explains how remote sensing and geospatial technologies help the mapping and monitoring of biomass burning events and their impacts. Focuses on large spatial scales integrating top-down and bottom-up methodologies. Addresses the pressing issues of environmental pollution that are rampant in South and Southeast Asia. Includes contributions from global experts actually working on biomass burning projects in the US, Japan, South/Southeast Asia, and Europe. This book will serve as a valuable source of information for remote sensing scientists, geographers, ecologists, atmospheric scientists, environmental scientists, and all who wish to advance their knowledge on fires and biomass burning in South/Southeast Asia.
