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Social Forestry in Environmentally Degraded Regions of India: Case-study of the Mayurakshi Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Nandini Chatterjee
Nandini Chatterjee
Affiliation:
Research Associate, (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research), Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India.
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Social Forestry (SF) schemes have been implemented in India since the 1980s to combat deforestation, increase the supply of fuel-wood and fodder, and provide minor forest products for the rural populaton. The relevance of such Schemes in the Mayurakshi River Basin is basically due to its environmentally degraded state. Latterly the Basin has been brought under the Mayurakshi River Valley Project, but unless measures are undertaken to mitigate problems of soil erosion, the efficiency of the Project will be hampered.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 20 - 30
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1995

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