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Land
Utilization in the Central Himalaya
Kireet Kumar; P.P.
Dhyani & L.M.S. Palni (Editors) |
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| ISBN |
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8173870624 |
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| Year
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1997
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| Pages |
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Pages
381; 7 colour pictures |
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| Size
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8.5"
X 5.5" / Hardcover |
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| Price |
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Rs.
550 |
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| Availability |
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Yes |
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The
book contains sixteen technical papers and observations
of the eminent experts of the field. All issues related
to the Land Utilization in the Central Himalaya are
covered by the authors. The papers are classified
in three sections, namely, Issues related to Land
Resources; Land Use Planning; and Management Options
for Sustainable Land Utilization. It is hoped that
this book would serve as a guideline to policy-makers
and other interest groups working in the Himalayan
region.
G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development
was established in 1988 as an autonomous organisation
of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt.
of India. The Institute is identified as a focal agency
to advance scientific knowledge, to evolve integrated
management strategies, demonstrate their efficacy
for conservation of natural resources, and to ensure
sustainable development in sthe entire Indian Himalaya.
The present efforts revolve around six Core Programs,
viz. Land and Water Resource Management; Sustainable
Development of Rural Ecosystems; Conservation of Biological
Diversity; Conservation of Biological Diversity; Ecological
Economics and Environmental Impact Analysis; Environmental
Physiology and Biotechnology; and Industrial Networking
and Human Investment.
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| Foreword
Preface
List of Participants
General Introduction
Recommendations of the Workshop
Welcome Address by L.K.S. Palni
Inaugural Address by J.C. Pant
Presidential Address by R.S. Tolia
Section
1: Issues Related to Land Resources of the Central Himalaya
1. Introduction and Summary of Papers (K.S. Sivasami)
2. Issues
Relating to Sustainable Land Use in Uttarakhand:
1. Learning Lessons of
Multi-Disciplinary Action Research in Land Use Management
(S.L. Shah)
3. Major Threats
to the Sustainability of Land Resources Management (A.K.
Sharma)
4. Land Resources
in the Central Himalaya: Problems and Perspectives (N.P.
Todaria)
5. Mining
Wasteland in the Kumaun Himalaya:
1. A Case Study of Dewalthal
Mining Area (Raghubir Chand, B.S. Mehta and G.S. Satyal)
6. Forest
Fires and Land Degradation in Uttarakhand (J.S. Mehta)
7. Challenges
in Sustainable Land Management in the Central Himalaya
(Rajesh Raj Singh)
Section
2: Land Use Planning in the Central Himalaya
8. Introduction and Summary of Papers (Saroj K. Pal)
9. Some Aspects
of Land Use Planning for Uttar Pradesh Hills (Ajit Kumar
Singh)
10. Land System
Mapping in Sustainable Land Utilization (J.S. Rawat
and Geeta Rawat)
11. Land Use
Classification System and Strategy of Terrain-Oriented
Land Use Planning
11. for the Central Himalaya
(S.C. Kharkwal)
12. Geographic
Information System:
11. A Reliable Tool for
Land Use Planning/Management (K.S. Rao and S. Ghosh)
13. Planning
for Sustainable Land Utilization in the Central Himalaya
(Mridula Singh and Murari Lal)
14. Land Use
Planning for Sustainable Development: A Case Study from
the Haigad Watershed in
11. the Central Himalaya
(D.S. Rawat, M. Joshi, S. Sharma, H.C. Rikhari and L.M.S.
Palni)
Section
3: Management Options for Sustainable Land Utilization
15. Action Plan and Summary of Papers (M. Shafi)
16. Land Management
in the Central Himalaya:
11. An Ecological Approach
to Economic Sustainability (Gopal K. Kadekodi)
17. Sustainable
Land Utilization in the Central Himalaya: Management
Options (J.S. Bali)
18. Problems
and Management Options for Sustainable Land Use in Two
Micro-Catchments
11. of the Central Himalaya
(V. Joshi, G.C.S. Negi and K. Kumar)
19. Rehabilitation
of Degraded Lands: A Sustainable Land Use for the Himalaya
Mid-Mountains
11. (B.P. Kothyari, S.K.
Bhuchar, B.S. Bisht, S.S. Bisht and B.K. Joshi)
Appendix A-Salt
or Sweet for the Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands in
the Himalaya
Appendix B-Land Utilization Pattern in the
Himalayan States
Appendix C-Voluntary Consolidation of Holdings
in Hill Areas
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Er.
Kireet Kumar, M. Tech. (Environmental Engineering)
from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur is presently
working as a scientist in the Institute. He has served
the Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi, the
apex organization in the field of environmental quality
management. For the last few years, he has focussed
his research activities on issues related to land and
water management in Himalayan ecosystem. He has contributed
several technical papers and reports in the field.
Dr. P.P.
Dhyani is currently the senior scientist
of the Institute. A plant ecophysiologist by training
and a teacher by profession, he is the Fellow of the
National Institute of Ecology; Councilor of HNB Garhwal
University, Srinagar (Garhwal); and Member of the
Mountain Protected Area (MtPA) Network of the World
Conservation Union/IUCN, U.S.A. He is also the senior
author of a popular book ?Myrica esculenta (Box Myrtle,
Kaiphal): A Promising Underexploited Tree Crop of
the Himalaya; and has 35 research publications to
his credit.
Dr. L.M.S.
Palni is a plant scientist by training with
research interest in the areas of environmental plant
physiology including plant growth substances, plant-microbe
interaction and plant tissue culture. After obtaining
Ph.D from the University of Wales, U.K. in 1980, he
served on the research faculty of the Australian National
University (1980-89). He was the founder Head of Biotechnology
Div. of CSIR complex, Palampur (1989-92) until moving
to the Institute in November 1992. He is the Director
Incharge of the Institute from July 1995. He has a
large number of publications to his credit in both
national and international journals.
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