Ajay Kumar Mahapatra

Abstract

The Kyoto protocol has made carbon a tradable commodity which signifies the value of forest carbon budgets and the need for understanding factors influencing them. For measuring future consequences of changes in land usage, current level of carbon emission and future pattern needs scientific evaluation, if forest based climate mitigation strategy is to be developed. Developing more consistent, accurate estimates of forest carbon stocks and quantification of pools and fluxes related to the forest carbon cycle are important in this context. The advantage of improved estimation of forest phytomass, soil organic carbon, by way of spatial interpretation of stock through remote sensing for modeling the carbon flux of Indian forests on account of land use and vegetation cover changes is explained in this article.

Keywords

Carbon Sequestration, Forest Cover, Carbon Accounting Models, GHG Emission

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Ajay Kumar Mahapatra

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Use of computers in forestry is at present mainly limited to scientific research. The scope for computer programme application in forestry management is however quite promising which requires development of user friendly customised software. Forest products harvesting and marketing demand analysis of silvicultural and market information for which systematic database need to be built up. Forest managers can periodically review and synthesis such databases to plan for finance, logistics and more importantly to economise the expenditure. A computer programme, 'Kendumod' was developed to analyse the costs and profit of Tendu trading in Orissa. it used the time series data to forecast the future costs and profit from Tendu leaf trading.

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D. D. Tewari , Ajay Kumar Mahapatra

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Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) generate sizeable magnitudes of income and employment in different parts of the world for the tribal and poor people. The evidence is based on the review of past studies across different continents. The study presents a collective evidence for the role of NTFPs in the economy of poor and downtrodden. NTFPs should be used as instrument for engendering economic development in low and underdeveloped sectors of the world.

Keywords

NTFPs, Income, Employment, Continent, Tribal, Trade, Marketing

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