Forests are critical for sustainable development, environment and also for livelihood. They provide a wealth of goods and services that are essential for people’s lives, cash income and green economy. Maintaining and enhancing our planet’s forest resources is essential if we are to succeed in the global efforts to alleviate poverty, address water scarcity and biodiversity loss, and mitigate climate change. Culturally and historically, the intrinsic value of forests, and the spiritual and sacred use of forests have great importance to local communities and our cultural identity. This book on Sustainable Forestry: Emerging Challenges, written by experienced academicians, scientists and other researchers shows the present ongoing initiatives in the country to address sustainable forestry and its management. An estimated 230 million people in India rely on forests for their livelihoods to some degree, including some 60 million indigenous people and other forest-dwelling communities. While more than two billion people – the developing world’s population use fodder, biomass fuels, mainly firewood, to cook food and large number of non-timber forest products for their day-to-day needs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A K Kandya
Prof. Anand Kumar Kandya is a renowned teacher in the department of Botany at Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, SAGAR, M.P. He did his M.Sc. Botany (Forest ecology) in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1974 from the same university. He worked in the Institute of world Forestry, Hamburg, Germany in 1976-1978 at the Institute of Silviculture, freiburg, Germany in 1983 in the Department of Forestry, Ehime University, matsuyama, japan in 1985-1986 (JSPS) and as a visiting Professor at the university of applied Sciences, Eberswale, Germany in 2001. he was awarded a fellowship by INSA in 2005 and visited Tropical Botanical green Houses at Germany. He has been Chairman and Resource Person in several International symposia organized by IUFRO. He was gifted with an HPCL (High Performance Liquid Chromatographic System,) of the worth of DM 40,000 by GTZ (German Association for technical Cooperation) in 1985 in recognition of his productive collaboration with the German scientists. Prof. Kandya has co-authored a book Handling of Forestry Seeds in India. Recently he has published Professor G.P. Mishra felicitation volume entitled Advancing Frontiers of ecological Researchers in India. He also has to his credit 70 research/review articles published in national and international journals and as chapters of books.
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