Sustainable Land Resource Management in Himalayan Region : Land Degradation, Water Management, Soil Fertility and Organic Farming
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acronyms and abbreviations. I. Synthesis of land resource management: deliberations: 1. Sustainable land resource management in Himalayan region: the dialogue deliberations/J.N. Raina, I.P. Sharma, R. Bawa. II. Land resources in Himalayan region: 2. Management of land resources in Himalayas/S.S. Negi. 3. Need for sustainable landuse planning in Himachal Pradesh/S.K. Ghabru. 4. Status of landuse in Northwestern Himalayas/Pratap Bhattacharya. 5. Technological options for optimum landuse in Hilly regions/Ravinder Sharma. 6. Status of soil and land resources in Northwest Himalayan region/Suraj Bhan. III. Land degradation: 7. Land degradation in Himalayan region: causes and control/I.P. Sharma. 8. Strategies for rehabilitation of minespoil wastelands in Uttaranchal: agroforestry interventions/K.S. Dadhwal. 9. Harnessing agroforestry potential for mitigating climate change/K.S. Verma. IV. Forests and landuse: 10. Adapting to climate change in Himalayan forest based landuse system/Hemant Kumar Gupta. 11. Participatory Panchayat microplanning for landuse planning/Sukhdev Vishwapremi. 12. Changing landuse pattern in cold deserts : subsistence to cash crop economy/Rajan Bawa. V. Water management: 13. Sustainable management of land resources for crop production in rainfed areas/Pradeep K. Sharma. 14. Hill watershed management: a panacea for sustainable mountain area development/B.S. Marh, D.D. Sharma and P.D. Bhardwaj. 15. Effective water management for sustainable landuse in Himalayas/B.C. Thakur, R.S. Spehia and J.N. Raina. 16. Harvesting rainwater for sustainable landuse in Shiwalik Himalayas/R.K. Aggarwal. 17. Rehabilitating of torrent affected areas in Shiwalik: the bioengineering approach/A.K. Tiwari. VI. Soil fertility and organic farming: 18. Maintenance of soil fertility for sustainable landuse in Himalayan regions/T.S. Verma and S.P. Sharma. 19. Integrated nutrient management for sustainable landuse/J.N. Riana and D. Tripathi. 20. Organic farming in Himalayan region/D. Tripathi, Gopal Krishan and J.N. Raina.
