Overview
- Comprehensive account of land degradation and its restoration through agroforestry
- Competent contributors across the globe working in the most relevant agroforestry regions
- Brings together recent trends, challenges and developments in agroforestry research
- Emphasize on environmental services rendered by agroforestry
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Tropical Agroforestry: Arid and Semiarid Regions
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Tropical Agroforestry: Humid and Subhumid Regions
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jagdish Chander Dagar, Former Assistant Director General and Emeritus Scientist at ICAR, has long been actively involved in the areas of agroforestry, natural resources management, biosaline agriculture, rehabilitation of degraded lands, ethnobotany, plant ecology, environmental sciences, biodiversity, climate change and sustainable agriculture, as can be seen in his more than 300 research papers, published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has been conferred with several awards and honours and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and several other professional societies. He has also been a consultant to the UN, CIMMYT, and Haryana Forest Department. Dr Dagar is also Chief Editor of the Journal Soil Salinity & Water Quality.
S. R. Gupta, former Professor of Botany, Dean of Life Sciences, and Emeritus Fellow of the UGC, is a nationally and internationally recognised ecologist who has taught at the Department of Botany and at the Institute of Environmental Studies at Kurukshetra University, India. She has made significant contributions to better understanding the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of grasslands, forest ecosystems, soil biodiversity, ecological rehabilitation of salt-affected soils, carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems, and the sustainability of conservation agricultural systems. The author of 98 research papers published in national and international journals, she is also a Fellow of the National Institute of Ecology and is affiliated with the Institute of Environmental Studies.
Demel Teketay Fanta received his MSc in Plant Taxonomy from Reading University (UK) and PhD in Forest Vegetation Ecology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is currently serving as a Professor of Forest Sciences and founding Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resources at Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN). He has published over 250 scientific articles and technical reports, including more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in national and international scientific journals. He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA), Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS), and a Member of the Botswana Academy of Science (BAS).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes
Book Subtitle: Recent Advances and Emerging Challenges - Vol.1
Editors: Jagdish Chander Dagar, Sharda Rani Gupta, Demel Teketay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4136-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4135-3Published: 06 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4138-4Published: 07 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4136-0Published: 05 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 554
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry, Plant Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Plant Physiology, Conservation Biology/Ecology