Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts

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.

Table of Contents:
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 22. Soil health status in coffee-based agroforestry systems in Western Ghats of Karnataka, India V. Maheswarappa, R. Vasudeva, Ramakrishna Hegde, Guddappa M. Devagiri, K.S. Channabasappa and Anil Kumar Khaple 23. Trees on farm lands: an underexploited source to achieve nutritional security in India Supriya K. Salimath, Manasa P.A. Clara, K.M. Nanaya, Ramakrishna Hegde and V. Maheswarappa 24. The role of communities in sustainable land and forest management Manoj Kumar, Sweta Nisha Phukon, Hukum Singh Part IV. Conflicts on forest resources and way to mitigation 25. Forests’ management for sustainable livelihoods in the Himalaya: a review of existing literature Vishwambhar Prasad Sati 26. Assessing habitat suitability of leopards (Panthera pardus) in unprotected scrublands of Bera, Rajasthan, India Varun Dutta Gupta, G. Areendran, Krishna Raj, Swagata Ghosh, Shyamal Dutta and Mehebub Sahana 27. Effects of Sonajhuri (Acacia auriculiformis) plantation on soil health in Purulia district, West Bengal, India Manoj Kumar Mahato, Narayan Chandra Jana 28. Trees and forest conservation-cum-afforestation to cope with climate uncertainties Anand Verdhen 29. Deforestation and its impact on sediment flux and channel morphodynamics of the Brahmani river basin, India Aznarul Islam, Balai Chandra Das, Sadik Mahammad, Palash Ghosh, Suman Deb Barman and Biplab Sarkar 30. Geospatial environmental modeling of forest declining trend in Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot region Meelan Chamling, Biswajit Bera and Sudipa Sarkar 31. Assessment of ecosystem services values in response to land use/land cover change in tropical forest Soumen Bisui, Sambhunath Roy, Debashish Sengupta, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit