Community forestry refers to forest management that has ecological sustainability and local
community benefits as central goals, with some degree of responsibility and authority for …

Five anthropogenic drivers–land use change, wood extraction, hunting, atmospheric
change, climate change–will largely determine the future of tropical forests. The geographic …

Mapping and monitoring of land use land cover (LULC) changes in the Himalayas is vital for
sustainable development, planning and management. Based on remote sensing (RS) and …

Land cover and its change analysis across the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is
realized as an urgent need to support diverse issues of environmental conservation. This …

In recent decades the rate and geographic extent of land‐use and land‐cover change has
increased throughout the world's humid tropical forests. The pan‐tropical geography of …

The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of
Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent …

Community forestry in Nepal vests rights of access, use, exclusion, and management of
national forestland to local user groups. There is strong potential for community forests to …

This study analyzed spatial and temporal changes in land use/land cover in a typical
mountain watershed covering an area of 153km2 in central Nepal by comparing classified …

Land-use change has important implications for sustainable livelihood of local communities
where traditional crop–livestock mixed farming is sustained with local inputs. Knowledge of …

This paper reviews the evolution of forest policies and forestry institutions in Nepal and
tracks the accompanying trends of change in the country's forest cover over the last century …