Land and Environmental Management Through Forestry

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Editors
List of Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1 Land Degradation and Restoration: Implication and Management Perspective
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Land Degradation in Developed and Developing World
1.3 Land Degradation Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
1.4 Land Degradation and Restoration: A Response Framework
1.5 Soil Erosion and Desertification: Problems and Challenges
1.6 Forest Degradation
1.7 Land Restoration
1.8 Ecological Restoration of Degraded Land through Afforestation Activities
1.9 Achieving Land Degradation Neutral (LDN) through Sustainable Land Use Management (SLM)
1.10 Sustainable Soil/Land Management: Challenge and Opportunities
1.11 Policy and Roadmap For Land Management and Sustainability
1.12 Conclusion
References
Chapter 2 Land Resources and Its Degradation in Asia: Its Control and Management
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Types of Land Resources
2.3 Causes of Land Resources Degradation
2.3.1 Urbanization
2.3.2 Deforestation
2.3.3 Land Clearing
2.3.4 Security of Access
2.3.5 Overgrazing and Overharvesting
2.3.6 Pollution
2.3.7 Quarrying of Stone, Sand, Ore, and Minerals
2.3.8 Climate Change
2.3.9 Agricultural
2.4 Major Threats, Implications, and Effects
2.4.1 Economy
2.4.2 Food Sources
2.4.3 Loss of Biodiversity
2.5 Management of Land Resources
2.5.1 Management of Deforestation
2.5.2 Agricultural Intensification Management
2.5.3 Management of Overgrazing
2.5.4 Management of Irrigation
2.5.5 Management of Mining
2.5.6 Management of Inventory Data
2.6 Policy Strategies and Future Roadmap against Land Degradation
2.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3 Deforestation Activities in Ezekoro Forest: Implications for Climate Change Risks in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Concept of Environmental Justice and Indiscriminate Deforestation/Tree Loss
3.3 Study Area
3.4 Materials and Method
3.5 Results and Discussion
3.5.1 Sample Characteristics
3.5.2 Discussion
3.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4 Land Degradation and Its Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Land Degradation: Causes and Consequences
4.3 Land Degradation and Major Environmental Challenges
4.4 Restoration of Degraded Land
4.5 Sustainable Land Management
4.6 Recommendation and Future Research Prospects
4.7 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5 The Vulnerability of Forest Resources to Climate Change
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Causes of Climate Change
5.2.1 Land-Use Change
5.2.2 Deforestation
5.2.3 Emissions of Greenhouse Gases
5.2.4 Urbanization
5.2.5 Emissions of Pollutants
5.2.6 Agriculture
5.3 Climate Change Affecting Forest Ecosystems
5.4 The Migration of Tree Species
5.5 The Replacement of Native Species by Exotic Species
5.6 The Economic Loss in the Forest Products Industry
5.7 Policy Strategies and Future Roadmap against Forest Vulnerability to Climate Change
5.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 Impact of Continuous Cover Forestry on Forest Systems
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Continuous Cover Forestry
6.3 Forest Management under Continuous Cover Forestry
6.4 Challenges and Future Outlook of Continuous Cover Forestry
6.5 Conclusions
Funding
References
Chapter 7 Forest Landscape Restoration for Environmental Management
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Forest Landscape Restoration
7.3 Types of FLR
7.3.1 Forest Land
7.3.2 Agricultural Land
7.4 Benefits of FLR on the Environment/Ecosystem
7.4.1 Healthy, Resilient and Productive Ecosystems
7.4.2 Improved Sustainable Provision of Ecosystem Services
7.4.3 Biodiversity Conservation
7.4.4 Global and Local Climate Resilience
7.5 FLR Partnerships
7.6 Techniques and Tools in FLR
7.7 Implementation of FLR
7.7.1 Visioning
7.7.2 Conceptualizing
7.7.3 Acting
7.7.4 Sustaining
7.8 Forest Landscape Assessment
7.9 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8 Ecological Restoration of Degraded Land through Afforestation Activities
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Concept of Ecological Restoration
8.3 Global Scenario of Land Degradation
8.4 Perspective of Land Degradation
8.5 Land Degradation under Changing Climate
8.6 Afforestation for Climate Change Mitigation
8.7 Afforestation for Problematic Soil and Land Management
8.7.1 Saline-Alkaline Soils
8.7.2 Afforestation in Waterlogged/Marshy Land
8.7.3 Afforestation in Mined-Out Areas
8.7.4 Afforestation in Coastal and Sandy Areas
8.8 Policy Initiative in Land Degradation and Afforestation
8.9 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9 Sustaino-Resilient Agroforestry for Climate Resilience, Food Security and Land Degradation Neutrality
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Is Agroforestry a Sustaino-Resilient Model?
9.2.1 Components of AF
9.2.1.1 Perennials
9.2.1.2 Crops
9.2.1.3 Livestock
9.2.2 Sustaino-Resilient Agroforestry Practices
9.2.2.1 Integrated Agroforestry Systems
9.2.2.2 Organic-Agroforestry
9.2.2.3 Natural Farming–Assisted Agroforestry
9.2.2.4 Perma-Agroforestry
9.2.2.5 Precision-Agroforestry
9.2.2.6 Horticulture Intervention in Agroforestry
9.2.2.7 Bamboo-Based Agroforestry
9.2.2.8 Medicinal Perennials Intervention in Agroforestry
9.2.2.9 Industrialized Agroforestry
9.2.3 Improved vs. Traditional Agroforestry Practices
9.3 Agroforestry for Climate Resilience
9.3.1 World Context
9.3.2 Indian Context
9.4 Agroforestry for Food Security
9.4.1 World Context
9.4.2 Indian Context
9.5 Agroforestry for Land Degradation Neutrality
9.5.1 World Context
9.5.2 Indian Context
9.6 The Way Forward
9.7 Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Chapter 10 Land and Environmental Management through Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) System
10.1 Introduction
10.2 AFOLU and Climate Change
10.2.1 Trend of GHGs Emission from Agriculture
10.2.2 Trend of GHGs Emission from Forestry and Other Land Use System
10.3 Role of AFOLU in Land and Environment Management
10.3.1 Agriculture Sector
10.3.2 Forestry and Other Land Use
10.4 Co-Benefit from AFOLU
10.5 Challenges
10.6 Opportunities: the Way Forward and Future Perspective
10.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 11 Eco-Restoration of Degraded Forest Ecosystems for Sustainable Development
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Forest Cover and Degradation
11.3 Indicators of Forest Degradation
11.4 Criteria for Assessment of Forest Degradation
11.5 Forest Ecosystem Restoration
11.6 The Restoration Indicators
11.6.1 Social and Economic Context
11.6.2 Ecological Context
11.6.3 Silvicultural Context
11.7 Restoration through SFM and Afforestation
11.8 Forest Resilience
11.9 Forest Recovery
11.10 Policy and Future Roadmap
11.11 Conclusion
References
Chapter 12 Forest for Sustainable Development
12.1 Introduction
12.2 World Forest: An Overview
12.3 Forest under Changing Climate
12.4 Forest for Ecosystem Services
12.5 Forest for Soil Management
12.6 Forest for Food and Nutritional Security
12.7 Sustainable Development: A Wake-Up Call
12.8 A Journey from Forest to Sustainable Forest Management
12.9 Policy and Future Roadmap
12.10 Conclusions
References
Chapter 13 Unfolding Environmental Repercussions of Land Degradation in the Lone Municipal Council of Andaman, India, Using Geospatial Technologies: A Case Study
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Study Area at a Glance
13.2.1 Meteorology
13.2.2 Physiography
13.2.3 Geology
13.2.4 Soil
13.3 Materials and Methodology
13.3.1 Materials
13.3.2 Methodology
13.3.2.1 LULC
13.3.2.2 Surface Runoff
13.3.2.3 Soil Erosion
13.3.2.4 Landslide Hazard Zonation
13.3.2.5 Carbon Storage and Sequestration
13.3.2.6 LST
13.4 Results and Discussion
13.4.1 LULC
13.4.2 Quantification of Surface Runoff
13.4.3 Quantification of Soil Erosion
13.4.4 Demarcation of Shallow Landslide Hazard Zonation
13.4.5 Quantification of Carbon Sequestration
13.4.6 Quantification of Land Surface Temperature
13.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 14 Acacia nilotica: A Promising Species for Soil Sustainability
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Habitat, Distribution and Ecology
14.3 Acacia nilotica–Based Agroforestry
14.4 Acacia nilotica and Soil Sustainability
14.5 Acacia and its Role in Soil Carbon Sequestration
14.6 Acacia nilotica: A Promising N2 Fixing Tree
14.7 Acacia: A Promising Tool for Land Restoration
14.8 Acacia and Its Other Sustainability Roles
14.9 Policy and Future Roadmap
14.10 Conclusions
References
Chapter 15 Farmland Evaluation to Stimulate the Rational Land Use and Soil Quality Enhancement: The Ukrainian Case
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Moratorium on the Sale of Agricultural Land and Its Social, Ecological, and Economic Consequences in Ukraine
15.3 An Overview of Agriculture in Ukraine
15.4 Evolution of Monetary Valuation of Agricultural Land in Ukraine and Modern Challenges
15.5 Conceptual Provisions for the Assessment of Land Resources from the Standpoint of their Multifaceted Nature
15.6 Development of a Methodology for the Normative Monetary Land Valuation to Stimulate Rational Land Use
15.7 Conclusion
References
About the Editors
Index
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