Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: Issues and Challenges
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Author: | P K Mishra and J K Verma |
ISBN 13: | 9789388982047 |
Binding: | Hardbound |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2019 |
Subject: | Agriculture |
About the Book
Contents: Preface v
List of Contributors ix
1. Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management 1
2. Sustainable Management Practices in Agriculture: A Case of Organic Farming in India5
3. Sustainable Food and Livelihood Security: A Case of an Agricultural Intervention in Bangladesh21
4. Productivity and Efficiency of Asian Agriculture 27
5. Climate Change and Sustainable Food Security 37
6. Efficiency of Agricultural Practices in Una District, Himachal Pradesh 47
7. Resource Use Efficiency and Comparative Costs: A Case of Farming System in Karnataka 59
8. Sustainable Agricultural Development in Punjab 69
9. Prospect of Sustainable Agriculture in Punjab 75
10. Role of Education in Sustainable Agricultural Marketing Practices in Indian Horticulture 89
11. Sustainability of Agri-tourism in Punjab: Problems and Prospects 113
12. Natural Resource Management for Environmental Sustainability 123
13. Remote Sensing and GIS in Natural Resource Management: A Case of Forest Cover in Punjab 135
14. Sustainable Development Goals and Wetland Sustainability: A Case of Harike Wetland in Punjab 145
15. Sustainable Development: A Harmonious Link between the Pillars of Environment and Development 151
Index 169
The present book is enriched with fifteen chapters contributed by the authorities in their respective fields and who have made significant contributions to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. This book is a timely exercise which provide an overview of the sustainable agricultural practice and natural resource management, and also give an analytical account of the problems and prospects associated with it.
This book will be highly useful for researchers, teachers, students, extension workers, master trainers, progressive farmers as well as common people having concern with sustainable agriculture and natural resource management.