Sustainable Management and Conservation of Environmental Resources in India

Sumit Chakravarty, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Department of Forestry, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, West Bengal, India. With over 20 years in forestry training, research, and development, he has published many research papers, book chapters, and books and has completed research projects on forest ecology, medicinal plants, and agroforestry. He has trained more than 50 master’s and doctoral students and has attended more than 50 national and international conferences as presenter and invited speaker.Vineeta, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Forestry at Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, West Bengal, India. She has more than eight years of teaching and research experience in the field of forestry, focusing on ethnobotany, non-timber forest products, agroforestry, and medicinal plants. She has authored research papers, book chapters, and two books.Jahangeer A. Bhat, PhD, is associated with the Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership at Piramal University, Mumbai, India. Formerly, he was associated with the College of Horticulture and Forestry at Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, India, and was Head of the Department of Forestry at the College of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry at Fiji National University. He has been instrumental in developing higher education and technical and vocational education and training streams of forestry and allied programs.Munesh Kumar, PhD, is Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at H.N.B. Garhwal University, Uttarakhand, India. He formerly served at Mizoram University, Aizawl, India. His areas of interest are forest ecology and biodiversity, agroforestry, and ethnobotany. He has more than 17 years of teaching and research experience and has published many papers in international and national journals as well as several books. Dr. Kumar has also guest edited the journals Land, Frontier of Environmental Sciences, and Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, and is an Associate Editor for PLOS-Climate Journal.Gopal Shukla, PhD, is Professor of Forestry at North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, India. He was formerly affiliated with Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, West Bengal, India. Dr.Shukla has teaching and research experience of more than 12 years. He has worked on projects that include the National Agricultural Innovation Project, National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture, and others. He has published many research papers, book chapters, and several books.

• Introduction 1. Nurturing Natural Resources for Reducing Environmental Pollution 2. Vegetation Dynamics and Climate Change: A Study of the Indian Himalayan Region 3. Carbon Stock Potential and Ecosystem Services Provisioned by Major Land-Use Systems in Southern Assam, India: A Meta-Analysis 4. Floral Diversity in Various Land Use Types in Jodhpur District of Arid Rajasthan, India 5. Forest Fire Detection and Monitoring for Its Management: Remote Sensing and a GIS/Geospatial Technology Approach 6. Agroforestry Systems for Ecosystem Services in India 7. Agroforestry System for Improved Above and Below Ground Biodiversity 8. Agroforestry Systems: An Effective Tool for Carbon Sequestration 9. Traditional Agroforestry Systems of North-Eastern India: An Overview 10. Evidence-Based Agroforestry Systems as Climate-Resilient Farming Practices for Improving Livelihood and Sustainability in India 11. Sericulture-Based Agroforestry Systems for Livelihood and Nutritional Security in India: An Overview 12. Potential of Different Soil Organic Amendments in Agroforestry Practices to Enhance Carbon Sequestration and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emission 13. Restoration of Saline and Sodic Soil Through Using Halophytes as Agroforestry Components 14. Geochemistry and Health Status of Soils in the Agroforestry Dominated HRML Regions of Idukki, Southern Western Ghats, India 15. Sustainable Soil Health Management Through Agroforestry in the Soils of Arunachal Pradesh, India 16. Large Cardamom-Based Agroforestry System for Livelihood Security in Sikkim Himalayas 17. Traditional Knowledge, Ethnic Foods, and Their Conservation of the Indigenous Lepcha Community of Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya 18. Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Applications for Smart Precision Agriculture: A Review

“Compiles all the important and necessary contents for sustainable development and conservation of forest and agricultural land resources. This book highlights the importance of agricultural landscape management through agroforestry for biodiversity conservation and nutritional security, as well as features of climate-resilient farming methods for improved livelihoods . . . This [book] with updated and latest information will be of great assistance to the targeted readers, particularly students, scholars, academicians, and policymakers.—From the Foreword by S. K. Chakrabarti, PhD, Vice Chancellor, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswa Vidyalaya, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India