Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts presents modern remote sensing and GIS techniques for Sustainable Livelihood. It provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the discourse surrounding forest resources and society, illustrating the relationship between forest resources and the livelihood of local people. The book is organized into four parts consisting of 31 chapters. Each chapter then reviews current understanding, present research, and future implications. Utilizing case studies and novel advances in geospatial technologies, Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts provides a timely synthesis of a rapidly growing field and stimulates ideas for future work, especially considering sustainable development goals.In addition, the book presents the effective contribution of the forestry sector to populations' livelihoods through improved collection of forestry statistics that foster the understanding and integration of the forestry sector in poverty reduction processes and the national economy to enhance its integration in national planning. It is a valuable resource for researchers and students in environmental science, especially those interested in forestry, geography, and remote sensing. - Demonstrates tools and techniques for measurement, monitoring, mapping, and modeling of forest resources - Explores state-of-the-art techniques using open source software, statistical programming, and GIS, focusing on recent trends in data mining and machine learning - Addresses a wide range of issues with both environmental and societal implications - Provides a global review of the multiple roles of forest resources utilizing case studies to illustrate management strategies and techniques
Klappentext
Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts presents modern remote sensing and GIS techniques for Sustainable Livelihood. It provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the discourse surrounding forest resources and society, illustrating the relationship between forest resources and the livelihood of local people. The book is organized into four parts consisting of 31 chapters. Each chapter then reviews current understanding, present research, and future implications. Utilizing case studies and novel advances in geospatial technologies, Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts provides a timely synthesis of a rapidly growing field and stimulates ideas for future work, especially considering sustainable development goals.
In addition, the book presents the effective contribution of the forestry sector to populations' livelihoods through improved collection of forestry statistics that foster the understanding and integration of the forestry sector in poverty reduction processes and the national economy to enhance its integration in national planning. It is a valuable resource for researchers and students in environmental science, especially those interested in forestry, geography, and remote sensing.
. Demonstrates tools and techniques for measurement, monitoring, mapping, and modeling of forest resources
. Explores state-of-the-art techniques using open source software, statistical programming, and GIS, focusing on recent trends in data mining and machine learning
. Addresses a wide range of issues with both environmental and societal implications
. Provides a global review of the multiple roles of forest resources utilizing case studies to illustrate management strategies and techniques
Inhalt
Part I
Geospatial-based forest resources mapping, monitoring, and modeling
1 Recent development and future challenges of geospatial approaches for enhancing forest inventories
Gouri Sankar Bhunia and Pravat Kumar Shit
2 Development of a WebGIS platform to generate biodiversity data using citizen science approach
Sujoy Mudi, Sambhunath Roy, Pulakesh Das and S.K. Vazeed Pasha
3 Analyzing seasonal variation in the vegetation cover using NDVI and rainfall in the dry deciduous forest region of eastern India
Shyamal Dutta, Sufia Rehman, Soumen Chatterjee and Haroon Sajjad
4 Forest health assessment using advanced geospatial technology in Buxa reserve forest, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, India
Asish Saha, Manoranjan Ghosh, Subodh Chandra Pal
5 An appraisal of forest degradation and future scenario in the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh state (India)
Soumen Bramha, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, S.R. Kamlesh and Pravat Kumar Shit
6 Vegetation biomass and carbon stock assessment using geospatial approach
Anil Kumar Khaple, Guddappa M. Devagiri, Naveen Veerabhadraswamy, Sanjay Babu, Shashi Bhushan Mishra and Vilaskumar Patil
7 Organic carbon stock in the forest soils of Himalayas and other areas in India
S.K. Gangopadhyay, T. Bhattacharyya, Tapan Kumar Mishra and S.K. Banerjee
8 Estimating aboveground stand carbon by combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite data: a case study from Turkey
Sedat Keles , Alkan Günlü and Ïlker Ercanli
9 Tree biomass and carbon stocks of different landscape elements in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India
V. Maheswarappa, R. Vasudeva, Ramakrishna Hegde, Guddappa M. Devagiri, Javaregowda, K.S. Channabasappa and Supriya Salimath
10 Application of geospatial technology and plant diversity indices to assess the temporal change of forest covers across the Ajodhya Hills of West Bengal, India
Debasis Ghosh, Manas Karmakar, Monali Banerjee and Mrinal Mandal
11 Above-ground biomass and carbon content in select bamboo species across humid and semiarid zones of Karnataka, India
Sruthi Subbanna and Syam Viswanath
12 Accuracy assessment of forest mapping in MODIS land cover dataset using fuzzy set theory
Maryam Naghdizadegan Jahromi, Mojtaba Naghdyzadegan Jahromi, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Shahrkh Zand-Parsa and Sajad Jamshidi
13 Quantifying forest cover changes in Koraput district, India using remote sensing and GIS
Ch. Jyotiprava Dash, Partha Pratim Adhikary, M. Madhu and P.K. Mishra
14 Using Bayesian kriging and satellite images to estimate above-ground biomass of Zagros mountainous forests
Somayeh Izadi, Hormoz Sohrabi
15 Estimation of forest ecosystem quality using GIS tool in Panchet forest division, West Bengal, India
Mrinmay Mandal and Nilanjana Das Chattarjee
Part II
Non-timber forest products for livelihoods and poverty alleviation
16 Do the collection and uses of NTFPs affect household well-being? Evidence from forest villages in eastern Himalaya
Manoranjan Ghosh, Asish Saha, Subodh Chandra Pal and Somnath Ghosal
17 Non-timber forest produces (NTFPs) and livelihood security of people in West Bengal
Debabrata Das, Pampi Ghosh and Atmaja Avirupa Das
18 NTFPs for socioeconomic security of rural households along the forest ecotone of Paschim Medinipur forest division, India
Partha Pratim Adhikary, Pravat Kumar Shit and Gouri Sankar Bhunia
19 Extraction of timber and nontimber forest produce of Southwest Bengal: ecology versus economy
Bindia Gupta, Punarbasu Chaudhuri and Tapan Kumar Mishra
Part III
Agroforestry and socio-economic issues for forest management
20 Soil and water conservation benefits of agroforestry
R. Kaushal, D. Mandal, Pankaj Panwar, Rajkumar, Pawan Kumar and J.M.S. Tomar
21 Agroforestry and soil health: a mitigation process using AM fungal culture in West Bengal
Pampi Ghosh, Debabrata Das and Atmaja Avirupa Das
<…