This special volume dedicated for the International Year of Forests-2011, contains articles/research papers on wide ranging and emerging areas of forestry and forest ecology contributed by leading researchers from various institutes, Universities and NGOs working in the Indian Himalayan region IHR. Topics covered in this edited volume include climate change impacts on forest structure and functioning ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, carbon markets and ...
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 ...