Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development of North East India
- Editore:
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- EAN:
9783659695711
- ISBN:
3659695718
- Pagine:
- 316
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development of North East India
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 Indiä 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.
