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Coles Eco-Restoration Strategies in Alpine and Subalpine Regions: A Case Study of Gangotri-Govind Landscape in the Himalaya at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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This book describes the development of a landscape-level degradation vulnerability assessment framework and its application to eco-restoration in the Gangotri-Govind landscape of the northwestern Indian Himalaya. Using multi-criteria decision analysis, it presents a successful eco-restoration strategy developed for this ecologically delicate landscape. The book identifies uncontrolled tourism, overgrazing, illegal resource use, environmental fragility, and low socioeconomic conditions as key drivers of alpine and sub-alpine degradation. It also introduces a novel degradation vulnerability index model for assessing the degradation status of alpine and sub-alpine pastures (bugyals) across the landscape. The degradation assessment framework and its respective eco-restoration practices presented in this book provide an integrated approach for identifying restoration priorities and supporting landscape-scale ecosystem recovery strategies. Although developed for high-altitude degraded alpine pastures in the Indian Himalayan Region, the model and restoration strategies are readily transferable to similar alpine and sub-alpine mountain ecosystems around the world.
This book describes the development of a landscape-level degradation vulnerability assessment framework and its application to eco-restoration in the Gangotri-Govind landscape of the northwestern Indian Himalaya. Using multi-criteria decision analysis, it presents a successful eco-restoration strategy developed for this ecologically delicate landscape. The book identifies uncontrolled tourism, overgrazing, illegal resource use, environmental fragility, and low socioeconomic conditions as key drivers of alpine and sub-alpine degradation. It also introduces a novel degradation vulnerability index model for assessing the degradation status of alpine and sub-alpine pastures (bugyals) across the landscape. The degradation assessment framework and its respective eco-restoration practices presented in this book provide an integrated approach for identifying restoration priorities and supporting landscape-scale ecosystem recovery strategies. Although developed for high-altitude degraded alpine pastures in the Indian Himalayan Region, the model and restoration strategies are readily transferable to similar alpine and sub-alpine mountain ecosystems around the world.
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