Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development of North East India

ISBN-13: 9783659695711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 316 str.

Rai Prabhat Kumar

Opis

North East India is an integral part of an Indo- Burma hot spot region and popularly known as paradise unexplored. Present book Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development of NE India discuss and review the works performed on multifaceted environmental issues like biodiversity of North East (NE) India with special reference to forestry/agroforestry, sacred groves/forests, shifting cultivation, impact of shifting cultivation on air quality, Bamboo flowering and its impact on soil, Agroforestry implications in sustainable development, Role of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development with special reference to ethnomedicinal plants used for primary health care system of diverse tribes in North East India. Further, the book addresses the issue and multifaceted mechanism related with plant invasion with description of a case study from NE India. Also, the NE India is a primate paradise and author reviews the Western Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) with the description of research in Assam and Mizoram of NE India. Moreover, the book describes the sustainable phytotechnologies like phytoremediation of water and air.

O autorze

Dr. Prabhat Kumar Rai, Senior Assistant Professor in D/O Environmenttal Science did his entire education from Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.), Varanasi, India. Dr. Rai published about EIGHTY SIX research papers in leading journals of Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis and International/national edited books. Also, he has five books to credit.