Forest Cover and Its Management: A Study in Indian Perspective | Chapter 2 | Novel Perspectives of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences Vol. 9

This item conducts a statewise analysis of the extent of jungle cover in India for the past two decades to devote effort to something the level of implementation of various jungle conservation procedures. India has diverse kinds of woods which offer an colossal potential for crucial ecosystem aids, rural financial growth and sustainable incident. However, these ecosystems are endangered by deforestation. Moreover, as India has emphasized on the Joint Forest Management (JFM) as a radioactivity of forest procedures after 1988, this article still studies the importance and the current position of fund allocation of JFM schemes as a potential partnership model expected to aid better implementation of policies. Our reasoning reveals that Indian states have substantial jungle cover, some of that has been lost on account of various reasons over ancient times years in some domains. In order to combat such woodland cover loss, there is immediate need to enforce steps to sustainably safeguard forest ecosystems. Along with the governments, the miscellaneous stakeholders need expected involved in such preservation efforts. The JFM concede possibility be encouraged more so that in addition to better fund allocation skilled should be efficient use of aforementioned funds.

Author(s) Details:

Pia Ghoshal,
Post Graduate Department of Economics, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), 30 Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata 700016, West Bengal, India.

Aniruddha Banerji,
Post Graduate Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), 30 Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata 700016, West Bengal, India.

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