Sustainable Land Management in India: Opportunities and Challenges

Gaurav Mishra · Krishna Giri · Sanjay Singh · Manoj Kumar

Oct 2024 · Springer Nature

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This edited book addresses various aspects of sustainable land management, including existing policy norms and indigenous knowledge. It focuses on how sustainable land management can combat desertification, increase livelihood opportunities, mitigate poverty and hunger, and conserve biodiversity. The book explores different sustainable land management practices and policy frameworks in India aimed at achieving land degradation neutrality. Sustainable land management (SLM) encompasses Nature-based Solutions for restoring degraded landscapes, mitigating and adapting to climate change, ensuring water and food security, alleviating poverty, promoting economic growth, and conserving biodiversity.

This book is suitable for academicians, researchers, and policymakers involved in developing roadmaps and policies to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

About the author

Gaurav Mishra

Gaurav Mishra, is working as a Scientist in the Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Land Management at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun (Uttarakhand), India. He has over 10 years of research experience in soil quality assessment, soil carbon dynamics, and carbon modeling at the regional level. He has more than 70 scientific, technical, and educational publications and has presented papers at national/international conferences. Dr. Mishra is serving as the Editorial Board member of Anthropocene Science Journal.

Krishna Giri

Krishna Giri is working as a Scientist at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, India, and did M. Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar in the year 2010 and 2013, respectively. He has published about 50 research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals of National and International repute and also contributed papers to National and International seminars, symposiums, and workshops. Besides, he has contributed 13 book chapters on the topical issues of soil microbiology.

Sanjay Singh,

Sanjay Singh has completed his Ph. D. from Garhwal University, Srinagar in Botany discipline. He is working as a scientist in Center of Excellence, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education. He has over 11 years of experience in the field of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecology. He has worked extensively in the biodiversity rich tribal areas of Central India. He has more than 40 scientific, technical, and educational publications and has presented papers at national/international conferences.

Manoj Kumar

Manoj Kumar is working as scientist at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, India. He is working in the field of forestry, environment and climate change, with wider applications of Remote Sensing and GIS. He is having working experience of more than 15 years and has successfully implemented more than 20 research projects funded by national and international agencies.

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