Description:
Understanding Soils of Mountainous Landscapes: Sustainable Use of Soil Ecosystem Services and Management focuses on the patterns and processes of mountainous soils, including threats due to the fragile nature of mountain ecosystems, and the conservation and management of soil ecosystem services and restoration processes. The book covers a balanced approach to land and resource management, ensuring that environmentally and socio-culturally sound interventions are developed and applied in the complex geophysical, ecological, and social landscapes of the world's mountain systems. The book provides holistic understanding of mountain soils to help environmental and soil scientists gain insight and develop new problem-solving approaches.
With obvious up- and downstream linkages (e.g., a large proportion of urban canters globally depend on water that originates in the mountains) as well as globalization (e.g., continental-scale impacts of air pollution and climate change on glaciers), the long-range success of conservation measures in mountain regions requires that the following discrete but interconnected interventions be pursued concurrently: (1) the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services, (2) empowerment of mountain communities (including family farming), and (3) elaboration of more thoughtful, context-specific policy environments for sustainable mountain development.
Brief description: Rahul Bhadouria is working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctorate from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 2017. The area of his doctoral research was performance evaluation of tree seedling growth under dry tropical environment. He has published more than 19 papers, 18 book chapters, and 2 books in the internationally reputed journals/publishers. His current research areas are 'Management of Soil C Dynamics to Mitigate Climate Change', 'A perspective on tree seedling survival and growth attributes in tropical dry forests under the realm of Climate Change' and 'Plant community assembly, functional diversity and soil attributes along the forest-savanna-grassland continuum in India'.