Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes : Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges - Vol.1 /: Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges - Vol.1. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jagdish Chander Dagar, Sharda Rani Gupta, Demel Teketay.
• Editors: Dagar, Jagdish Chander; Gupta, Sharda Rani; Teketay, Demel
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Agroforestry for Rehabilitation of Degraded Landscapes: Achieving Livelihood and Environmental Security.- Chapter 3. Agroforestry to Enhance Livelihood Security in Africa: Research Trends and Emerging Challenges.- Chapter 4. Potential of Agroforestry to Enhance Livelihood Security in Africa.- Chapter 5. Agroforestry Systems for Arid Ecologies in India.- Chapter 6. Land Use Management by Small Holders' Households as a Promising Way for Synergies Between the Rio Conventions: Case Study in Semi-arid Areas of Cameroon.- Chapter 7. Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services of Agroforestry Systems in the West African Sahel: A Review.- Chapter 8. Agroforestry Systems for Improving Nutrient Recycling and Soil Fertility on Degraded Lands.- Chapter 9. Sustainability of Faidherbia albida-based Agroforestry in Crop Production and Maintaining Soil Health.- Chapter 10. Characterization of Faidherbia albida and Prosopis africana Trees Wood Anatomy and Response to Climate Variability Using Dendrochronology in the Sahelian Agroforestry Parklands.- Chapter 11. Potential of Gliricidia-based Agroforestry Systems for Resource Limited Agro-ecosystems.- Chapter 12. Lac-based Agroforestry System for Degraded Land.- Chapter 13. The Role of Insects in Enhancing Ecosystem Services of Tree-based Systems on Degraded Lands.- Chapter 14. Socio-economic and Policy Issues in Relation to Adoption of Agroforestry in Africa.- Chapter 15. Agroforestry Options for Degraded Landscapes in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 16. Community-based Peat Swamp Restoration through Agroforestry in Indonesia.- Chapter 17. Agroforestry to Sustain Island and Coastal Agriculture in Scenario of Climate Change: Indian Perspective.- Chapter 18. Incentivizing Hill Farmers for Promoting Agroforestry as an Alternative to Shifting Cultivation in North-East India.- Chapter 19. Promoting Bamboo-based Agroforestry for Enhancing Ecosystem Services from Degraded Lands.- Chapter 20. The Contribution of Agroforestry to Restoration and Conservation: Biodiversity Islands in Degraded Landscapes.- Chapter 21. Soil Micro-arthropods as Indicators of Soil Health of Tropical Homegardens in Kerala, India.- Chapter 22. Biomass Production Potentials under Temperate Agroforestry Systems as Influenced by Selected Sustainability Indicators: A Case Study Approach with Supportive Evidence.- Chapter 23. Management Practices vis-a-vis Agroforestry for the Improvement of Rangelands of Jammu and Kashmir in Northwestern Himalaya.- Chapter 24. The influence of Over-mature, Degraded Nothofagus Forests with Strong Anthropic Disturbance on the Quality of an Andisol, and Its Gradual Recovery with Silvopasture in Southwestern South America.- Chapter 25. Assessment of Trees Outside Forests (TOF) with emphasis on agroforestry systems.- Chapter 26. Agroforestry Interventions for Rehabilitating Salt-affected and Waterlogged Marginal Landscapes.- Chapter 27. Silvopasture Options for Enhanced Biological Productivity of Degraded Pasture/Grazing Lands: An Overview.- Chapter 28. Potential of Agroforestry for Rehabilitation of Degraded Ravine Lands.- Chapter 29. Halophytes for Utilizing and Restoring Coastal Saline Soils of India: Emphasis on Agroforestry Mode.- Chapter 30. Urban and Peri-urban Agroforestry: Utilization of Waste Water and Degraded Landscapes for Environmental and Livelihood Security.- Chapter 31. Agroforestry Approach for Rehabilitation of Mine Spoils.- Chapter 32. Tree Plantations for Improving Soil Fertility and Carbon Sequestration on Mine Spoils.- Chapter 33. Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems for Rehabilitating Degraded Lands of India.- Chapter 34. Agroforestry Developments for Degraded Landscapes: A Synthesis.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (554 pages)
• Subjects: Life sciences; Forestry; Plant ecology; Landscape ecology; Plant physiology; Conservation biology; Ecology ; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Plant ecology; Plant physiology; Conservation of the environment; Technology & Engineering -- Agriculture -- Forestry; Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811541360
• Related ISBNs: 9789811541353
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