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Land Utilization in the Central Himalaya
Kireet Kumar; P.P. Dhyani & L.M.S. Palni (Editors)

ISBN : 8173870624
Year / Edition : 1997 / First
Pages : Pages 381; 7 colour pictures
Size / Format : 8.5" X 5.5" / Hardcover
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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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 Table of contents...

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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 About the author...
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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