Forest fires are a most important source of dreadful conditions of India's forests. At the same time as statistical data on top of fire loss are feeble, it is predictable that the proportion of forest areas prone to forest fires yearly ranges from 35% in a number of states to wrap 90%...
Locations of past forest fire events reported from November 2002 to July 2019 were collected from the Uttarakhand Forest Department and Forest Survey of India and combined with the ground observations obtained from the manual survey. Then, the locations were categorized into two groups of 70% (10...
Define Forest tree. Forest tree synonyms, Forest tree pronunciation, Forest tree translation, English dictionary definition of Forest tree. a tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit tree . See also: Forest Webster's Re
To address the endogeneity of air pollution exposure, we use panel fixed effects estimation and instrument for outdoor pollution using upwind forest fire intensity. We find that outdoor air pollution exposure reduces lung capacity and decreases overall health status. Subgroup analysis reveals that ...
The Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change has prepared a National Master Plan for Forest Fire Control. TheForest Survey of India (FSI)monitors the incidence of wildfires. This plan proposes to introduce a well-coordinated and integrated fire management program that includes the followi...
The actual forest cover is estimated to be 21.23% of the total geographic area, as per the latest state of forests report of Forest Survey of India. Out of which only 12.24% of forests are well stocked (crown density above 40%), which is less than 1% of the world forest resources. As...
Fig. 5. Indicators of sensitivity: A) Forest fragmentation, B) Disturbance index, C) Forest loss, D) Forest fire density, E) Human footprint, F) Stream power index, G) Soil type, H) Elevation, I) Slope, J) Aspect, K) Non-working population, and L) Forest-dependent population. Adap...
Toposheets (1: 25000 scale) pertaining to Solan Forest Division were procured from FSI (Forest Survey of India) and used to digitise contours at 20 m interval using CARTALINX 1.2 data builder. The Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the division was prepared by processing these cartographic ...
FSI, State of the Forest Report, Forest Survey of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, GoI, 2019 Satendra, Kaushik AD (2014) Forest fire Diaster management. National Institute of disaster management. Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi Hefeeda M, Bagheri M Forest fire modeling and earl...
Mount Kenya is one such ecosystem that experiences annual fires; however, there is limited information on the level of knowledge or preparedness of the local community towards wildfires and fire management across the entire ecosystem. Here, we used questionnaires and interviews to randomly and ...