Degradation Of Forested Land

Author : MOHD NAZIP SURATMAN,Zulkiflee Abd Latif,Gabriel De Oliveira,Nathaniel Brunsell,Yosio Shimabukuro,Carlos Antonio Costa Dos Santos
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789238334

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Forest Degradation Around the World by MOHD NAZIP SURATMAN,Zulkiflee Abd Latif,Gabriel De Oliveira,Nathaniel Brunsell,Yosio Shimabukuro,Carlos Antonio Costa Dos Santos Pdf

The growth in the human population has forced mankind to convert forested land into other land uses such as agricultural land, residential, urban, road construction and mining activities. The degradation of forest due to anthropogenic activities is significantly reducing forests in the world. These practices result in significant impacts on the forest structure, species composition and ecology, which will consequently reduce forest productivity and ecosystem functions. Due to deforestation, half of the earth's vegetation surface has reduced to one-third, resulting in large degraded areas. The significant reduction of the forest areas requires appropriate planning for sustainable management of the forests. This book reviews the extent and consequences of deforestation around the world. It highlights case studies of the causes of deforestation in Malaysia, Korea, India, Bangladesh, Columbia, Brazil and Mali. It is hoped that the book will provide insights on the importance of effective forest planning and management for the sustainable development of forest resources.

Author : British Columbia. Ministry of Forests
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Forest soils
ISBN : MINN:31951D00401428K

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Degradation of Forested Land by British Columbia. Ministry of Forests Pdf

In February 1986, a forest soil degradation workshop was held at the University of British Colombia. The objectives of this workshop were to bring together people with the most up-to-date research knowledge and experience about forest soil degradation, and provide a forum for discussion with operational foresters and resource managers.

Author : Ajai,Rimjhim Bhatnagar
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351115612

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Desertification and Land Degradation by Ajai,Rimjhim Bhatnagar Pdf

Desertification and land degradation are complex phenomena, and we need to understand their causes, consequences, and means to mitigate and combat their impact. Therefore, this book aims to explain the concept and characteristics of drylands, desert and desertification, land degradation, wastelands, and the concept of ecosystem services. It also discusses various types of processes of land degradations, their characteristics, physics and indicators along with mapping, monitoring and assessment of methods involved. Concept of Ocean Biological Deserts is discussed along with international and regional efforts towards combating land degradation and desertification. Key Features: • Provides all the aspect of desertification and land degradation at one place • Includes comprehensive methods to monitor different desertification/land degradation processes • Comprehensive overview of the mapping, monitoring and modelling techniques • Role of space borne data in identifying, monitoring and combating desertification is evaluated and reported with real case studies • Explains the concept of ocean biological deserts, their characteristics and mapping

Author : Pankaj Panwar,Gopal Shukla,Jahangeer A. Bhat,Sumit Chakravarty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811954788

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Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management by Pankaj Panwar,Gopal Shukla,Jahangeer A. Bhat,Sumit Chakravarty Pdf

This edited book covers all aspects of forest deforestation and degradation in detail and their link to land degradation. Poor natural resource management is often a contributory factor in the depletion of resources particularly like degradation of land which hinders the goals to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN). Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 15.3 states: “By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought, and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world.” To achieve the set goals a comprehensive multidirectional approach is required involving policymakers, field functionaries, researchers, and above all educators. The book compiles the field experiences and wisdom of some of the best researchers and authors working in the field of land degradations for quite a long time. The objective of the book is to disseminate the status of land degradation, the importance of achieving land degradation and share success stories of reclaiming Land degradation, and suggests means and ways of achieving land degradation neutrality. This book act as a repository of knowledge on Land degradation neutrality for students, researchers and practitioners, and policy planners.

Author : Liu Dachang
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 9789798764981

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Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests to Improve Livelihoods of Poor Farmers in South China by Liu Dachang Pdf

This publication is the result of a project initiated by the Chinese Acadamy of Forestry (CAF) and finalised with inputs by representatives of Center for International Forestry Research(CIFOR), and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) at a meeting in Singapore in 1995.

Author : Nigel Dudley,Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud,Francis Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134164387

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Bad Harvest by Nigel Dudley,Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud,Francis Sullivan Pdf

The world's forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and with disastrous consequences. Demand for wood and paper products ranks high amongst the causes of deforestation and forest degradation, and is now the major cause of loss in those forests richest in wildlife. There is a great deal to be done to improve the timber industry before our forests are safely and sustainably managed. Bad Harvest presents an incisive account of the role that the timber trade has played in the loss and degradation of forests around the world. It examines the environmental consequences of the trade on boreal, temporal and tropical regions, and its impacts for local people working and living in the forests. It also looks at the changing nature of the trade, and assesses current national and international initiatives to address the impacts of deforestation. Finally, the authors show how things could be improved in the future, by presenting a new strategy for sustainable forest management. Based on 15 years of extensive research - particularly work carried out by the World Wide Fund for Nature - Bad Harvest is essential reading on the subject; not only for environmentalists, but also for those in the timber trade seeking to improve the management and reputation of their product.

Author : Frans Bongers,Timm Tennigkeit
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849776400

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Degraded Forests in Eastern Africa by Frans Bongers,Timm Tennigkeit Pdf

Forest degradation as a result of logging, shifting cultivation, agriculture and urban development is a major issue throughout the tropics. It leads to loss in soil fertility, water resources and biodiversity, as well as contributes to climate change. Efforts are therefore required to try to minimize further degradation and restore tropical forests in a sustainable way. This is the first research-based book to examine this problem in East Africa. The specific focus is on the forests of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda, but the lessons learned are shown to be applicable to neighbouring countries and others in the tropics. A wide range of forest types are covered, from dry Miombo forest and afromontane forests, to forest-savannah mosaics and wet forest types. Current management practices are assessed and examples of good practice presented. The role of local people is also emphasized. The authors describe improved management and restoration through silviculture, plantation forestry and agroforestry, leading to improvements in timber production, biodiversity conservation and the livelihoods of local people.

Author : Paul G. Scowcroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Koa
ISBN : MINN:31951D029884145

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Site Preparation Affects Survival, Growth of Koa on Degraded Montane Forest Land by Paul G. Scowcroft Pdf

Author : Baleshwar Thakur
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 8180694887

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Perspective Resource Management In Developing Countries: Vol. 3 Ecological Degradation Of Land by Baleshwar Thakur Pdf

v. 2. Population, resources and development -- v.3. Ecological degradation of land

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,The Global Mechanism - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789251323755

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Land Degradation Neutrality in Small Island Developing States by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,The Global Mechanism - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Pdf

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are continuously under the threat from the adverse effects of climate change and land degradation impacts. Land degradation directly increases CO2 emissions, contributing to climate change and vice versa. The LDN Target Setting Programme (TSP) of the UNCCD has substantially contributed to land degradation receiving the policy attention and securing political commitments for addressing the obvious and immediate threats of climate change and natural disasters to SIDS. It has strengthened the availability and accessibility of data for assessing land degradation and enabled SIDS to set specific measurable science-based targets. LDN provides the framework for the sustainable development of human settlements in SIDS through policy, planning, design and regulatory instruments.

Author : Michael John Eden,John T. Parry
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015038026285

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Land Degradation in the Tropics by Michael John Eden,John T. Parry Pdf

Author : William M. Denevan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : WISC:89034613083

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Causes of Deforestation and Forest and Woodland Degradation in Tropical Latin America by William M. Denevan Pdf

Author : Pandi Zdruli,Marcello Pagliai,Selim Kapur,Angel Faz Cano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789048186570

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Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation by Pandi Zdruli,Marcello Pagliai,Selim Kapur,Angel Faz Cano Pdf

Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation, and Remediation reports research results in sustainable land management and land degradation status and mitigation in 36 countries around the world. It includes background papers with continental and international perspectives dealing with land degradation and desertification studies. The book assembles various topics of interest for a large audience. They include carbon sequestration and stocks, modern techniques to trace the trends of land degradation, traditional and modern approaches of resource-base conservation, soil fertility management, reforestation, rangeland rehabilitation, land use planning, GIS techniques in desertification risk cartography, participatory ecosystem management, policy analyses and possible plans for action. Various climatic domains in Africa, Asia, Europe and The Americas are covered. The book will be of interest to a variety of environmental scientists, agronomists, national and international policy makers and a number of organizations dealing with sustainable management of natural resources.

Author : Ratan Priya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030688486

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Land Degradation in India by Ratan Priya Pdf

This book discusses land degradation in India using statistical tools such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Regression Analysis (RA), and uses statistical analyses and graphical representations of the causal relationship between land degradation and land productivity to determine linkages with deforestation, climate change and agricultural productivity. While most studies of land degradation in India focus on economic outcomes and physical processes at macro and micro levels, this study addresses land degradation at the meso-level to fill in this gap and provide up-to-date information on often overlooked factors associated with land degradation issues using the latest available data. Districts in the study were selected by land degradation intensity, forming an index of the severity of land degradation in the area, with a focus on gullied lands, soil salinity/alkalinity and open and dense scrubs as indicators. Though the study areas are in India, researchers, policy makers and students around the world will be able to learn from these inputs regarding land degradation to address various challenges associated with sustainable land management and agricultural productivity.

Author : Abhishek Raj,Manoj Kumar Jhariya,Arnab Banerjee,Sharad Nema,Kiran Bargali
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781119910404

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Land and Environmental Management Through Forestry by Abhishek Raj,Manoj Kumar Jhariya,Arnab Banerjee,Sharad Nema,Kiran Bargali Pdf

LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT THROUGH FORESTRY Written and edited by a group of experts in the field, this groundbreaking reference work sets the standard for engineers, students, and professionals working in forestry, agriculture, ecology, and environmental science, offering the scientific community a way toward combating climate change and land degradation. This outstanding new volume covers the diverse issues of land degradation around the world and its restoration through forestry, agroforestry, and other practices. The editors have integrated many different concepts and applications into a single place from which scientists, research scholars, academicians, and policymakers can benefit. New insights in this area are critical, as our very existence depends on forest sustainability and land restoration management. The work consists of chapters addressing the issues of land degradation, deforestation, intensive agricultural practices, sustainable intensification, soil and forest-related services, land and environmental management, and overall sustainability of the ecosystem. The contributors address current issues and their management through a holistic and integrated approach, presenting the context of land degradation and its problem, identifying the potential areas of research in the field of land restoration, identifying the land-based services and their potential role for ecosystem sustainability, creating awareness so that future policies can be framed for the betterment of human civilization, and addressing sustainable intensification for land and environmental management and service. A standard reference work for the disciplines of forestry, agriculture, ecology, and environmental science, it will also be a way forward for combating climate change. Useful to academics, researchers, ecologists, environmentalists, students, capacity builders, and policymakers, it is a must-have for any library.