scholarly journals Investigation of Reproductive Birds in Hara Biosphere Reserve, Threats and Management Strategies

The Biosphere ◽  
10.5772/33603 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elnaz Neinavaz ◽  
Elham Khalilzadeh ◽  
Besat Emami ◽  
Yasaman Dilmaghani
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Hara Biosphere Reserve

A framework for the Integrated Assessment of SDG trade-offs in the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Marcinko ◽  
Robert Nicholls ◽  
Tim Daw ◽  
Sugata Hazra ◽  
Craig Hutton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Sundarbans

<p>The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their corresponding targets are significantly interconnected, with many interactions, synergies and trade-offs between individual goals across multiple temporal and spatial scales.  We propose a framework for the Integrated Assessment Modelling (IAM) of a complex deltaic socio-ecological system in order to analyse such SDG interactions. We focus on the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve (SBR), India within the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. It is densely populated with 4.4 million people (2011), high levels of poverty and a strong dependence on rural livelihoods. It is only 50 km from the growing megacity of Kolkata (about 15 million people in 2020). The area also includes the Indian portion of the world’s largest mangrove forest – the Sundarbans – hosting the iconic Bengal Tiger. Like all deltaic systems, this area is subject to multiple drivers of environmental change operating across different scales. The IAM framework is designed to investigate current and future trends in socio-environmental change and explore associated policy impacts, considering a broad range of sub-thematic SDG indicators. Integration is achieved through the soft coupling of multiple sub-models, knowledge and data of relevant environmental and socio-economic processes.  The following elements are explicitly considered: (1) agriculture; (2) aquaculture; (3) mangroves; (4) fisheries; and (5) multidimensional poverty. Key questions that can be addressed include the implications of changing monsoon patterns, trade-offs between agriculture and aquaculture, or the future of the Sundarbans mangroves under sea-level rise and different management strategies, including trade-offs with land use to the north.  The novel high-resolution analysis of SDG interactions allowed by the IAM will provide stakeholders and policy makers the opportunity to prioritize and explore the SDG targets that are most relevant to the SBR and provide a foundation for further integrated analysis.</p>

Optimised management strategies for the Biosphere reserve Lobau, Austria - based on a multi criteria decision support system

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 25-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hein ◽  
Alfred P. Blaschke ◽  
Gertrud Haidvogl ◽  
Severin Hohensinner ◽  
Verena Kucera-Hirzinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Biosphere Reserve

Adaptive management in transboundary protected areas: The Bialowieza National Park and Biosphere Reserve as a case study

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
Key Species ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Transboundary Protected Areas ◽  
Future Outcomes

Transboundary protected areas (PAs) currently represent nearly 10% of the world's network of PAs. The protection of their biological wealth poses special challenges because of the need for cooperation among sovereign states. Adaptive management strategies offer hope for a more accurate assessment of ecological conditions within PAs, and have the potential for furthering one of the major objectives of these PAs, namely enhancing environmental cooperation between countries across whose boundaries the protected area complex is situated. This paper examines the implications of adaptive management for transboundary PAs by using the Polish/Belarusian Bialowieza PAs as a case study. Managers of PAs have conventionally aimed at accurate predictions and short-term system equilibrium through ‘top-down’ policies of control and exclusion. In the case of PAs, these objectives have meant limiting use and employing models of linear growth. Adaptive management strategies rely instead on long-term experience, assessment of experimental interventions, and collection of greater amounts of information to assess future outcomes. They aim at the satisfaction of objectives that may include equilibrium changes. These features of adaptive management imply attention over time to the interactions between different key species, greater involvement of local populations in the collection of information about the resources, and experimenting with different levels of use to infer the most suitable protection strategies.

scholarly journals Rhododendron diversity along the Kusong-Panch Pokhari transect in Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve, the eastern Himalaya: a conservation perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11192
Author(s):  
Prem K. Chettri ◽  
Bijoy Chhetri ◽  
Hemant K. Badola
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Eastern Himalaya ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Sikkim Himalaya ◽  
Native Flora ◽  
Virgin Forest ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Environmental Management Strategies ◽  
The Status

Sikkim Himalaya, India is part of one of the richest global biodiversity hotspots, exhibiting a significant amount of native flora including Rhododendron (Ericaceae) species, which are particularly well represented with 37 species, 11 subspecies, seven varieties and two natural hybrids occurring along the rolling mountains between 1,500m to 6,000m.  Most of the habitats of rhododendrons in Sikkim Himalaya have not only been threatened by climate change but also by emerging eco-tourism and economic activities vis-à-vis trekking corridors.  In recent decades, it has been observed that the climate-governed phenology of rhododendrons of eastern Himalaya is shifting; further the urbanization, tourism influx, and clearances for the footpaths have adversely impacted the diversity of many forest areas.  To better understand the effects of trekking corridors on Rhododendron species for the tourist destinations, we performed a pilot survey along the Kusong-Panch Pokhari transect in relatively virgin forest of the northern part of Sikkim to assess the status of both Rhododendron diversity and potential environmental management strategies that can be employed within the transect as a new tourist destination in the Sikkim Himalaya.  Along with this transect, we recorded 23 Rhododendron species, with five eastern Himalayan endemics.  Our results indicate that the diversity of rhododendrons seem good along the Kusong-Panch Pokhari transect and we further recommend it could be a new potential eco-tourism destination as an alternative income generating source for the local people, provided that appropriate conservation management strategies are in place. 

Analysis of heavy metals concentration in water and sediment in the Hara biosphere reserve, southern Iran

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Nowrouzi ◽  
Borhan Mansouri ◽  
Sahar Nabizadeh ◽  
Alireza Pourkhabbaz
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Southern Iran ◽  
Water And Sediment ◽  
Hara Biosphere Reserve
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