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Agroforestry For Increased Production And Livelihood Security

By: Sushil Kumar Gupta,Pankaj Panwar,Rajesh Kaushal

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Agroforestry For Increased Production And Livelihood Security

By: Sushil Kumar Gupta,Pankaj Panwar,Rajesh Kaushal

The book entitled “Agroforestry for Increased Production and Livelihood Security” would help in understanding the issues and options for small and marginal land holders and ensuring their livelihood through agroforestry. The contributors of the manuscripts have vast working experience in different aspects of agroforestry and from different agro-ecological situations. This compilation would be a ready reference and perfect guide to all those in the profession of teaching agroforestry, environmentalists, policy planners, students and the farmers in general. This book can be used as supplementary reading material in graduate and post graduate courses of forestry, agroforestry and allied biological sciences. This voluminous compilation is likely to boost the cause of development and promotion of usage of agroforestry and encouraging the farmers to take up agroforestry as a sound land use to earn their livelihood.

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New India Publishing Agency

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9385516760

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Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India

Moving the Mountains

By: Pankaj Jain

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Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India

Moving the Mountains

By: Pankaj Jain

Scholars have long noticed a discrepancy in the way non-Western and Western peoples conceptualize the scientific and religious worlds. Non-Western traditions and communities, such as of India, are better positioned to provide an alternative to the Western dualistic thinking of separating science and religion. The Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization (HESCO) was founded by Dr. Anil Joshi in the 1970s as a new movement looking at the economic and development needs of rural villages in the Indian Himalayas, and encouraging them to use local resources in order to open up new avenues to self-reliance. This throughly-revised text argues that the concept of dharma, the law that supports the regulatory order of the universe in Indian culture, can be applied as an overarching term for HESCO’s socio-economic work. This book presents the social-environmental work in contemporary India by Dr. Anil Joshi in the Himalayas and by Baba Seechewal in Punjab, combining the ideas of traditional and scientific ecological knowledge systems. Based on these two examples, the book presents the holistic model transcending the dichotomies of nature vs. culture and science vs. religion, especially as practiced and utilized in the non-Western society such as India. Using the example of HESCO, the book highlights that the very categories of religion and science are problematic when applied to non-Western traditions, but that Western technologies can be radically transformed through integration with regional legacies to enable the flourishing of a multiplicity of knowledge-traditions and the societies that depend upon them. It will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Religion, Environmental Studies, Himalayan Studies, and Development Studies.

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1317690095

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Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Sustenance and Sustainability

By: Pankaj Jain

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Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Sustenance and Sustainability

By: Pankaj Jain

In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this nature worship in India, its natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. This has led several scholars to raise questions about the role religious communities can play in environmentalism. Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above questions with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities. Presenting the texts of Bishnois, their environmental history, and their contemporary activism; investigating the Swadhyaya movement from an ecological perspective; and exploring the Bhil communities and their Sacred Groves, this book applies a non-Western hermeneutical model to interpret the religious traditions of Indic communities. With a foreword by Roger S Gottlieb.

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1317151607

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Micromorphology of Soils and Paleosols of India

By: Pankaj Srivastava,Dilip K. Pal

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Micromorphology of Soils and Paleosols of India

By: Pankaj Srivastava,Dilip K. Pal

This monograph covers uniqueness of micromorphology in resolving many important but enigmatic pedological issues such as clay illuviation, formation of pedogenic and non-pedogenic CaCO3, modification of plasmic fabric, contemporary and relict pedogenic processes, polygenesis of soils in Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of the tropical Indian environments. Chapters in this title also include identification of paleosols, diagenetic overprinting of the pedofeatures in lithified paleosols, and alluvial cyclicity of the fluvial successions. The techniques mentioned in this title are of tremendous value in pedological and geological research for precise and unambiguous definitions of soil taxa to build the national soil information and refine the stratigraphy of the terrestrial sediments. The information is for the benefit the students and researchers of pedology and geomorphology who often come across extreme difficulties in relating to examples applying the principles of soil formation from textbooks devoted almost exclusively to soils of the temperate climates. The format of this publication is arranged for a process-oriented text and figures on micromorphology of the tropical soils and paleosols as a reference for pedologists, earth scientists, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, and also for land resource managers who are engaged in enhancing the productivity of such tropical soils in India and elsewhere.

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Springer Nature

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9819965608

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9789819965601

Climate Change and Environmental Issues

By: Narayan Singh,Amit Kumar Thakur,P L Sharma,Pankaj Sharma

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Climate Change and Environmental Issues

By: Narayan Singh,Amit Kumar Thakur,P L Sharma,Pankaj Sharma

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Climate is changing across our planet, largely, as a result of human activities. The indicators of climate change include physical responses such as changes in the surface temperature, atmospheric water vapour, severe climatic events, melting of glaciers, and a rise in sea level. Mountain ecosystems being exceptionally fragile are prone to both natural and anthropogenic drivers of change, which ranges from volcanic and seismic events and flooding to global climate change and of vegetation and soils, resulting from inappropriate agricultural and forestry practices and extractive industries. Environmental issues directly affect agricultural productivity, famine and pandemics, health, economy, and ecology. In this light, environmental protection, the practice of protecting the environment on individual, community, organizational, or governmental level, assumes a significant role. This book provides a holistic coverage of the basics of climate change, changes in biodiversity, phytosociological changes, and thus proposes a comprehensive set of solutions to resolve various issues related to environment and climate change. This book would be beneficial for researchers, policy makers, academicians, environmentalists, and university students.

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The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

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8179935906

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Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management

By: Pankaj Panwar,Gopal Shukla,Jahangeer A. Bhat,Sumit Chakravarty

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Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management

By: Pankaj Panwar,Gopal Shukla,Jahangeer A. Bhat,Sumit Chakravarty

This edited book covers all aspects of forest deforestation and degradation in detail and their link to land degradation. Poor natural resource management is often a contributory factor in the depletion of resources particularly like degradation of land which hinders the goals to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN). Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 15.3 states: “By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought, and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world.” To achieve the set goals a comprehensive multidirectional approach is required involving policymakers, field functionaries, researchers, and above all educators. The book compiles the field experiences and wisdom of some of the best researchers and authors working in the field of land degradations for quite a long time. The objective of the book is to disseminate the status of land degradation, the importance of achieving land degradation and share success stories of reclaiming Land degradation, and suggests means and ways of achieving land degradation neutrality. This book act as a repository of knowledge on Land degradation neutrality for students, researchers and practitioners, and policy planners.

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981195478X

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9789811954788

Handbook Of Practical Forestry

By: Pankaj Panwar,S. D. Bhardwaj,S.D.

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Handbook Of Practical Forestry

By: Pankaj Panwar,S. D. Bhardwaj,S.D.

Forest cover in most of the tropical countries is declining at an alarming rate. FAO in 1997 reported that with the exception of India, where there has been a small improvement, all tropical countries have lost forest cover during the period 1990-1995 (Schmidt, 2000). Though forest cover of India has increased to 20.55% of total geographical area (FSI, 2001), still there is a huge gap for achieving the target of 33% as laid down in National Forest Policy-1988. According to a rough estimate, out of total geographical area of 329 m ha of our country, more than 50 per cent of the area is under varying degree and form of soil erosion. About 5334 million tonnes of soil (16.35 t/ ha/ yr) is being eroded annually, of which 29% is permanently lost into the sea. About 5.37 to 8.40 million tonnes of soil nutrients are lost through water erosion (Anonymous,2003).

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Book's by Pankaj Panwar

Agroforestry For Increased Production And Livelihood Security

Agroforestry For Increased Production And Livelihood Security

Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India

Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India

Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities

Micromorphology of Soils and Paleosols of India

Micromorphology of Soils and Paleosols of India

Climate Change and Environmental Issues

Climate Change and Environmental Issues

Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management

Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management

Handbook Of Practical Forestry

Handbook Of Practical Forestry

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