G. MathewKerala Forest Research InstituteK. P. KumarUniversity of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra (GKVK)M. ChandrashekaraiahCentral Silk Technological Research InstituteSpringer SingaporeMathew G, Kumar KP, Chandrashekaraiah M. Forest Arthropod Communities in India: Their ...
The act was passed in December 2006 and it deals with the rights of forest-dwelling communities to land and other resources which have been denied to them over decades as a result of the continuance of colonial forest laws in India. The Act accords legal recognition to the rights of traditio...
Deforestation has impoverished many rural communities in developing countries that depend on forests for their basic needs. Contemporary sustainable development (SD) theory focuses on how to meet the basic needs of the poor while conserving the resource base on which they depend. Thus, forest conserva...
India, despite having robust legislations, policies and remote sensing capabilities, is not ready to benefit from the emerging REDD+ mechanism, with potential flow of large financial benefits to rural and forest-dependent communities from international financial sources. 展开 ...
Dutta, Madhumati; Roy, Souvanic; Maiti, Dibyendu S.; Saha, Shubhayu, 2005. Protecting India's forests: The effectiveness of forest protection communities: The case of southern West Bengal. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 12, 68-77....
This requires the design of sustainable forest planning strategies that take into account the evolution of landscape and local communities (Corona et al., 2008). The loss in forest area is associated with a broad spectrum of social processes driven by industrialization and agricultural intensification...
High priority has since been accorded to community forest management on the assumption that sustainable resource use is most likely to occur if local communities participate in managing the resources on which they depend. However, externally initiated community forest management efforts in Bihar have ...
However, poor harvesting practices and over-exploitation in the face of increasing market demand are threatening the sustainability of these resources, and thus the livelihoods of forest-dependent tribal communities. This article analyses the role of NTFPs in livelihoods-improvement initiatives and ...
Changes in land use, habitat reduction and fragmentation, nutrient enrichment, and environmental stress, caused by human beings in the form of pollutants lead to reduced biological diversity on all levels (genes, species, and communities) and all functional roles. The Food and Agriculture ...
Tropical rainforests today represent a treasure trove of biological heritage, and they also serve as sinks for more than 50 percent of all atmosphericcarbon dioxideabsorbed by plants annually. They not only retain many primitive plant and animalspeciesbut also arecommunitiesthat exhibit unparalleledbiodiv...