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
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