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Social forestry is the management and protection of forests and afforestation of barren and deforested lands with the purpose of helping environmental, social and rural development. The term social forestry was first used in 1976 by The National Commission on Agriculture , when the government of India aimed to reduce pressure on forests by ...
Indian Journal of Forestry: journal home: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh 1978–present English 4 issues per year Irish Forestry: journal home: Society of Irish Foresters 1943–present English 1 volume per year Journal of Forest and Environmental Science: journal home: Institute of Forest Science - Kangwon National University: 1980–present
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, is a key piece of forest legislation passed in India on 18 December 2006. It has also been called the Forest Rights Act, the Tribal Rights Act, the Tribal Bill, and the Tribal Land Act. The law concerns the rights of forest-dwelling communities ...
Forest Survey of India (FSI), founded in June 1981 and headquartered at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, is the Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organisation which conducts forest surveys, studies and researches to periodically monitor the changing situations of land and forest resources and present the data for national planning, conservation and sustainable ...
1981, Social Economic and Ecological Impact of Social Forestry in Kolar, Vandana Shiva, H.C. Sharatchandra, J. Banyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; 1986, Chipko: India's Civilisational Response to the Forest Crisis, J. Bandopadhyay and Vandana Shiva, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. Pub. by INTACH
The Indian Forester is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in forestry. It is one of the oldest forestry journals still in existence in the world. [ 1 ] It was established in 1875 and is published by the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education .
The 2009 Indian national forest policy document emphasizes the need to combine India's effort at forest conservation with sustainable forest management. [33] India defines forest management as one where the economic needs of local communities are not ignored, rather forests are sustained while meeting nation's economic needs and local issues ...
The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) [1] [2] [3] is an autonomous organisation [4] [5] or governmental agency under the MoEFCC, Government of India. Headquartered in Dehradun , its functions are to conduct forestry research; transfer the technologies developed to the states of India and other user agencies; and to ...