The paper presents innovative `vulnerability analysis' using spatial databases for Uttarakhand in India. Key words: Vulnerability, Forest Type, Forest fire susceptibility, risk mapping.Tajinder KaurSudhanshu Gupta
MUMBAI, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Fire has spread across Bandipur Tiger Reserve in India's Karnataka state destroying several acres of forest land along with flora and fauna, media reports said late Sunday night. Strong winds and dry grass have propelled the fire to an area of over eight km wi...
MUMBAI, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Another forest fire broke out in Karadimatti and Kucchalu Reserve Forest of Thirthahalli sub-district in India's southwestern Karnataka late Monday. Spread over 20 hectares, the fire was doused by forest officials with the help of local villagers, media reports s...
Forest fire is a major cause of changes in forest structure and function. Among various floristic regions, the northeast region of India suffers maximum from the fires due to age-old practice of shifting culti- vation and spread of fires from jhum fields. For proper mitigation and management,...
1. Introduction Forest and land fire is an event of forest and/or land burning, either naturally or by human actions, resulting in environmental damage that causes ecological, economic, socio-cultural, and political losses [1]. In 2015, the total area of forest and land fires in Indonesia ...
some national governments have alsoundertakenambitious replanting projects. For example, starting in 2017, the government ofNew Zealandsought to plant more than 100 million trees per year within its borders, but perhaps the most ambitious replanting project took place inIndiaon a single day in 2017...
Results suggested that, of all the states in India, fires in Andhra Pradesh constituted nearly 13.53% of total fires. District wise estimates of fire counts for Andhra Pradesh suggested that, Adilabad, Cuddapah, Kurnool, Prakasham and Mehbubnagar had relatively highest number of fires compared to...
some national governments have alsoundertakenambitious replanting projects. For example, starting in 2017, the government ofNew Zealandsought to plant more than 100 million trees per year within its borders, but perhaps the most ambitious replanting project took place inIndiaon a single day in 2017...
Impact of climate change on forests in India Indications are a shift towards wetter forest types in the northeastern region and drier forest type in the northwestern region in the absence of human ... Ravindranath,NH,Joshi,... - 《Curr Sci》 被引量: 181发表: 2006年 NE Forests 2100: A ...
NEW DELHI, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in a forest fire in southern state of Tamil Nadu has risen to 14, with some of the critically injured trekkers succumbing to their burn injuries at the hospital in the past 24 hours, police said Friday. The massive fire broke out late ...