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Indian Forestry
A Perspective
Ajay S. Rawat (Ed)

ISBN : 8185182787 About the Book
Year / Edition : 1993 / First Table of Contents
Pages : 408 About the Author
Size / Format : 8.5" X 5.5" / Hardcover  
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 About the book...

With the rapid increase in population the pressure on the forests is heavy and vast areas that were once green are today wastelands. The actual forest cover in India in 10.47 per cent only of the geographical area of the country against the desirable optimum level of 33.3 per cent. If India has among the highest percentage of degraded land in the world, a major reason is that it is losing forests as the rate of 2.8 per cent annually. Much of its pastures are also overgrazed. The result is that it has very little vegetation to hold the soil in place. When it rains percious top soil is washed away. If there is no rain wind erosion is there. Frequent natural disasters like cyclones, floods and droughts have severely frustrated the development. The colossal proportion of the degradation of such resources cannot be wished away. Bringing these back under vegetation cover is a major challenge. But when we talk about the challenges caused by the shrinking forests in India, we do not take into account the forces of history which have produced today?s dilemma of the dangerous depletion of forests.
In this book apart from highlighting different aspects of forestry, an attempt has also been made to understand and interpret historically the tell-tale symptoms of environmental ill-health today. Written by authors who are keen observers and specialists in different fields of forestry, the book deals with the growth and development of forestry in India.

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 Table of contents...

Preface
Contributors

1. Early Ecological Knowledge of India (J. Donald Hughes)

2. Wildlife Conservation: The Indian Elephant (Rajendra Singh Bhandari and Ajay S. Rawat)

3. Biodiversity and its Conservation in India (S.S. Negi)

4. Forest Policy in India (A.K. Ghosh)

5. Brandis: The Father of Organized Forestry in India (Ajay S. Rawat)

6. State Forestry and Social Conflict in British India (Ramachandra Guha and Madhav Gadgil)

7. Quest for a Sustainable Forest Management: A Study of the Working Plans of North Canara District (1890-1945) (Marlene Buchy)

8. Forests of the Western Himalaya and the British Colonial System (1815-1914) (Richard P. Tucker)

9. People?s Participation in Biomass Production and Utilization: A Study of Forest Panchayats (C. Shastri)

10. Ecological History of While Oak of Uttarakhand (J.S. Mehta)

11. Forest Satyagraha in the Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience Movements (Sumit Sarkar)

12. Impact of Human Activities on the Dynamics of Dry Tropical Forest: A Study of Vindhyan Hill Tract (J.S. Singh and S.C. Srivastava)

13. Controversies of Chir Pine Forest Expansion in the Central Himalaya (S.P. Singh)

14. Role of Non-Conventional Energy in Checking the Deforestation in Hilly Regions (G.D. Sootha)

15. Wastelands Development in India (B.N. Dwivedi)

16. Himalayan Ecology Threatened by Indiscriminate Apple Cultivation (Vir Singh)

17. Reclamation and Afforestation of Abandoned Mines in Doon Valley (Ajay S. Rawat)

18. Man and Forests: The Gujjars of Rajaji National Park (D.V.S. Khati)

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 About the author...
Dr. Ajay S. Rawat is presently Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He has written three research oriented books, Garhwal Himalayas: A Historical Survey 1815-1947; Uttarakhand ka Rajnitik Itihas; and History of Garhwal: 1358-1947 and edited a book History of Forestry India, besides contributing 45 research papers in books and journals on the History of Kumaon and Garhwal. He has also presented several papers on the History of Forestry and Forest Practices in India in national and international conferences.

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