Sustainability Crisis

Sustainability Crisis
ISBN-10
8184300735
ISBN-13
9788184300734
Category
Self-Help
Pages
299
Language
English
Published
2009-01-01
Publisher
Prabhat Prakashan
Author
D N Tewari

Description

A healthy and stable environment is vital for survival of civilization. Forests are fundamental to the earth’s ‘ecological infrastructure, hence the year 2011 has been designated as the International year of Forests by the United Nations General Assembly. A world without forests is unthinkable, but they are facing the challenges of deforestation, competing land uses, and market policy and governance failures. But there are opportunities for greening the sector by establishment of Sustainable Forest Management (S.F.M.) criteria and indicators, the growth of protected areas, the concept of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and growing acceptance of Payments for Environmental Services (PES). The book suggests, increased investments in natural forests and plantations for providing jobs and livelihoods to the millions people, more serious policy attention, legal and governance changes to tip the balance towards sustainable forestry for achieving global food security, improved economy and environmental sustainability.

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