Ensuring Sustainability in Forestry: Certification of Forests details the concepts and approaches required to meet the desired international standards of forest certification. It brings together important issues related to forest certification, which need to be applied and utilized in the context of forests in India in the present scenario. It also focuses on economic factors, greening of certification processes, and the interface between technical and business knowledge. Drawing on a wealth of information provided by valuable studies across the globe, this volume discusses forest certification and its impact on conservation and development of biodiversity. It is a comprehensive and detailed guide for forest managers, owners, and consultants; government foresters; and forest product traders. It includes an introduction to the concept of certification and its origin and spread in India. It offers a comparison of various schemes of certification. It has focus on emerging issues and challenges of certification and its future. There is coverage of marketing and economics aspects of forest certification. It offers an examination of the relationship between certification and climate change and environmental conservation. It also includes a development of a certification strategy for India.

Today when the world is facing serious energy crisis and climate change problems, the issue of nuclear energy and power has regained much importance particularly in countries with rapidly growing energy demands like India and China, and where alternatives sources are scarce or expensive like in Japan and South Korea. The book, divided into seven chapters, focuses on various positive and negative aspects of nuclear energy and power. The chapters elaborate on issues like an in depth analysis of contemporary nuclear power production, nuclear safety and existing systems of safeguard, including the roles and responsibilities of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the performance of nuclear reactors worldwide, the transport, storage and disposal of radioactive materials and wastes, environmental health and other effects of nuclear energy and power technologies.