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This volume commemorates the Golden Jubilee Year of the establishment of Kirorimal College. This prestigious institution was honoured by the gracious presence of the First President of India, Dr. Rajindra Prasad who laid the foundation of the college building. This commemorative volume focuses attention on the growing awareness about plant ecology and environment biology. The different contributions present an up-to-date, detailed and balanced overview of the current knowledge within specific topics. Man has interacted with nature in various ways since the dawn of civilization. Primitive societies ensured that a proper balance was maintained. The situation has changed by the various developmental activities of man. We are losing our natural resources, biodiversity, genetic diversity, and are unable to manage nature. The consequences are becoming apparent in the form of drought, floods, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, climate change, melting of snow, rising of water levels in coastal areas, desertification, etc. These concern ecologists/ environmentalists and should receive adequate attention by students who study ecology. In this volume, emphasis has been laid on areas such as Climate Change, Environmental Laws, Biodiversity Act, Intellectual Property Rights, Mineral Industry and Environment, Remote Sensing, GIS and the environment, Diversity and Distribution of wild relatives of crop plants, Sustainable agriculture, Management of Protected Areas, Wetland ecosystems, and Coastal Erosion. The volume is meant to serve as useful reference book for graduate and post-graduate students.

I.M. Kapahi

Convenor, Golden Jubilee Celebration Committee Bhim Sen Singh

(Principal)

Kirorimal College

1. Introduction Prithipalsingh

2. Climate Change: A Global Environmental Challenge Subodh Sharma, Amit Garg and Sumana Bhattacharya

3. Climate Change and its Impacts on Tropical Forest Ecosystem P. Shajeesh Jan and Jose Kallarackal

4. Status, Impacts and measures to combat desertification- Indian Scenario R.C. Pal, V. Jeeva, Sudhir Kumar and A.S. Raturi

5. Environmental Laws in India: An Appraisal Piyush Kumar Sharma

6. The Biodiversity Act of India: An Appraisal Pratibha Brahmi and Anuradha Aggarwal

7. Biodiversity and Intellectual Property Rights Payal Mago

8. Mineral Industry, Environment and Development G. S. Roonwal

9. Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS Chetna Anand

10. Characterization of Forest Resource Units of the Bhagirathi River Basin in Garhwal Himalaya using Remote Sensing and GIS Seema M. Parihar and P. K. Parihar

11. Analysis of Vegetation Pattern and Influences of some Abiotic Factors using Remote Sensing and GIS S. John Britto, B. Balaguru, N. Nagamurgan,
S. Soosairaj and D. Natarajan

12. The Changing Face of Delhi Neelam Malkani

13. Impacts of Converting Tropical Forests into Plantations Deepak Jolly George and Jose Kallarackal

14. Allelopathy and its Role in Sustainable Agriculture D.R. Batish, H.P. Singh and R.K. Kohli

15. Wild Relatives of Crop Plants in the Indian Region: Diversity, Distribution and Phytogeography E. Roshini Nayar

16. Management of Muli bamboo (Melocanna baccifera) flowering in Tripura Khushwant Singh

17. Managing Protected Areas: Towards Sustainability P.S. Ramakrishnan

18. An overview of Wetland ecosystems in India with special emphasis on Conservation and Management of Wetlands of Gangetic plains of U.P. M.K. Khalid and K. K. Mohapatra

19. Coastal Erosion V. M. Meher-Homji

20. Biomass stocks and productivity potential in the disturbed open canopy forests of Satpura plateau P. K. Pande