Ever since the dawn of human civilization, biodiversity has been the backbone of human food, health and livelihood providing systems. The importance of biodiversity is economic, environmental, scientific and medical. The Global Convention on biodiversity (CBD) was adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. The CBD officially came into force in December 1993 and by January [...]
The present study deals with the environmental changes and biodiversity loss in general and land use/cover change, landslides and biodiversity in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in particular. It basically deals with the interactions of four basic phenomena, i.e., land use/cover changes, landslides, and biodiversity and biosphere reserve. Biodiversity is at the core of study while land use/cover changes and landslides [...]
It has been mentioned earlier that there have been significant changes in various elements of environment, i.e., biotic and abiotic in the last century, which are usually attributed to anthropogenic activities. Some of the changes such as biodiversity loss, land use/cover changes and forest loss have been largely due to human activities. However, the underlying causes for climatic changes are [...]