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This book unveils forestry science and its policy and management
that connect past and present understanding of forests. The
aggregated knowledge is presented to cover the approaches adopted
in studying forest structure, its growth, functioning, and
degradation, especially in the context of the surrounding
environment. The application of advance computation,
instrumentation, and modelling has been elaborated in various
chapters. Forest ecosystems are rapidly changing due to forest
fires, deforestation, urbanization, climate change, and other
natural and anthropogenic drivers. Understanding the dynamics of
forest ecosystems requires contemporary methods and measures,
utilizing modern tools and big data for developing effective
conservation plans. The book also covers discussion on
policies for sustainable forestry, agroforestry, environmental
governance, socio-ecology, nature-based solutions, and management
implication. It is suitable for a wide range of readers
working in the field of scientific forestry, policy making, and
forest management. In addition, it is a useful material for
postgraduate and research students of forestry sciences.
This edited book is focused on SDG 15. This volume covers aspects
of species and ecosystem modeling in understanding the complexity
of ecological systems, restoration, protected area management, and
species conservation. The book follows a systematic and
situation-sensitive approach to discuss ecosystem and species
modeling tools, approaches, science, case studies, opportunities,
and gaps for enhancing conservation efforts, ensuring ecosystem
resilience, and addressing sustainability issues. The book
emphasizes on science, innovations, case studies, and strategic
relevance as main pillars of using ecosystem and species modeling
tools and implementing the outcomes and results. In addition, clear
conceptual frameworks, elaborated methodologies, and their
applications are included to support policy planning and
interventions to reduce and reverse human encroachment in
human-dominated natural ecosystems, their degradation, and loss of
important species and ecosystem services. Essential information
with a special focus on advances and opportunities in advancing the
implementation of results and outputs of the modeling tools,
challenges and constraints for addressing loss of ecosystem
services, designing and implementing sustainable landscape
restoration, environmental risk assessment, and finally
understanding policy implications and concerns for mainstreaming
modeling results in conservation planning and decision-making is
included in the book. Further topics include ultimate translational
value of modeling tools and efforts across transitional ecosystems
and species habitat to provide better evidence to influence the
nature-based solutions (NbS) and ecosystem health assessment using
Red List of Ecosystems (RLE). The emerging roles of integrative
socio-ecological as well as techno-cultural factors in promoting
the relevance of ecosystem and species modeling is one of the key
features of this book. This edited volume is of interest and useful
to researchers, students, scholars, policy makers, forest managers,
consultants, and policy makers in the fields of protected area
management, forest department, conservation, modeling, climate
change, and sustainability science, and also authors engaged in
IPBES, IPCC, and several other assessments.
Over the past few decades, the frequency and severity of natural
and human-induced disasters have increased across Asia. These
disasters lead to substantial loss of life, livelihoods and
community assets, which not only threatens the pace of
socio-economic development, but also undo hard-earned gains.
Extreme events and disasters such as floods, droughts, heat, fire,
cyclones and tidal surges are known to be exacerbated by
environmental changes including climate change, land-use changes
and natural resource degradation. Increasing climate variability
and multi-dimensional vulnerabilities have severely affected the
social, ecological and economic capacities of the people in the
region who are, economically speaking, those with the least
capacity to adapt. Climatic and other environmental hazards and
anthropogenic risks, coupled with weak and wavering capacities,
severely impact the ecosystems and Nature's Contributions to People
(NCP) and, thereby, to human well-being. Long-term resilience
building through disaster risk reduction and integrated adaptive
climate planning, therefore, has become a key priority for
scientists and policymakers alike. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is
a cost-effective approach that utilizes ecosystem and biodiversity
services for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation,
while also providing a range of co-benefits like sustainable
livelihoods and food, water and energy security. This book
discusses the concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) - both as a
science and as art - and elaborates on how it can be applied to
develop healthy and resilient ecosystems locally, nationally,
regionally and globally. The book covers illustrative methods and
tools adopted for applying NbS in different countries. The authors
discuss NbS applications and challenges, research trends and future
insights that have wider regional and global relevance. The aspects
covered include: landscape restoration, ecosystem-based adaptation,
ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction, ecological restoration,
ecosystem-based protected areas management, green infrastructure
development, nature-friendly infrastructure development in various
ecosystem types, agro-climatic zones and watersheds. The book
offers insights into understanding the sustainable development
goals (SDGs) at the grass roots level and can help indigenous and
local communities harness ecosystem services to help achieve them.
It offers a unique, essential resource for researchers, students,
corporations, administrators and policymakers working in the fields
of the environment, geography, development, policy planning, the
natural sciences, life sciences, agriculture, health, climate
change and disaster studies.
This edited book provides a comprehensive and a reliable source of
information on all major areas of diatom research. It addresses
research advances in the key areas of diatom biology, morphology,
systematics, phylogeny and ecology along with their
interdisciplinary applications. Diatoms are the world's most
diverse group of algae populating the freshwater and marine
ecosystems of the world. They are unicellular, photosynthetic,
eukaryotes having ornate silicified cell walls. Diatoms contribute
around 25% of annual global carbon fixation, which is more than all
of the terrestrial rainforests combined. Diatoms underpin major
aquatic food webs and drive global biogeochemical cycles and have
several ecological and interdisciplinary applications. This book
targets a wide range of audience including researchers,
academicians, teachers and students of varied disciplines such as
biology, environmental sciences, ecology, evolution, nanotechnology
and other related disciplines. It is useful read for beginners as
well as advanced researchers.
This edited book discusses Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) from
conception to implementation in building resilience and urban
sustainability. The book emphasizes on infrastructures,
institutions, and perceptions as three main pillars of implementing
and managing successful BGI, with a special focus on Asia. The book
highlights concepts as well as field-based experiences from
different parts of Asia by experts, with a special focus on
advances and opportunities in advancing BGI, challenges and
constraints, followed by case studies on BGI mainstreaming. It
addresses sustainable water management, multiscale environmental
design, environmental risk assessment, and finally understanding
policy implications and concerns for BGI mainstreaming in growing
urban sprawls of the region. There has been growing global momentum
and recognition of Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) as a
multifunctional Nature-based Solution (NbS) with multiple
co-benefits. There is strong evidence from many urban centres of
Europe, USA, China, and South Africa demonstrating that
mainstreaming BGI can help in addressing growing vulnerability of
urban areas by ensuring safety, resilience, and sustainability for
urban residents in the warming world. This book is a timely
contribution for researchers, students, scholars, urban planners,
consultants, and policy makers in the fields of environment,
resilience, urban planning, climate adaptation, and sustainability
science. Â
This edited book discusses Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) from
conception to implementation in building resilience and urban
sustainability. The book emphasizes on infrastructures,
institutions, and perceptions as three main pillars of implementing
and managing successful BGI, with a special focus on Asia. The book
highlights concepts as well as field-based experiences from
different parts of Asia by experts, with a special focus on
advances and opportunities in advancing BGI, challenges and
constraints, followed by case studies on BGI mainstreaming. It
addresses sustainable water management, multiscale environmental
design, environmental risk assessment, and finally understanding
policy implications and concerns for BGI mainstreaming in growing
urban sprawls of the region. There has been growing global momentum
and recognition of Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) as a
multifunctional Nature-based Solution (NbS) with multiple
co-benefits. There is strong evidence from many urban centres of
Europe, USA, China, and South Africa demonstrating that
mainstreaming BGI can help in addressing growing vulnerability of
urban areas by ensuring safety, resilience, and sustainability for
urban residents in the warming world. This book is a timely
contribution for researchers, students, scholars, urban planners,
consultants, and policy makers in the fields of environment,
resilience, urban planning, climate adaptation, and sustainability
science.
This book unveils forestry science and its policy and management
that connect past and present understanding of forests. The
aggregated knowledge is presented to cover the approaches adopted
in studying forest structure, its growth, functioning, and
degradation, especially in the context of the surrounding
environment. The application of advance computation,
instrumentation, and modelling has been elaborated in various
chapters. Forest ecosystems are rapidly changing due to forest
fires, deforestation, urbanization, climate change, and other
natural and anthropogenic drivers. Understanding the dynamics of
forest ecosystems requires contemporary methods and measures,
utilizing modern tools and big data for developing effective
conservation plans. The book also covers discussion on policies for
sustainable forestry, agroforestry, environmental governance,
socio-ecology, nature-based solutions, and management implication.
It is suitable for a wide range of readers working in the field of
scientific forestry, policy making, and forest management. In
addition, it is a useful material for postgraduate and research
students of forestry sciences.
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