Natural Resource Management: Ecological Perspectives

290 Pages·2019·6.43 MB·English

by  Rajinder Peshin

Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
Rajinder Peshin
Ashok K. Dhawan Editors
Natural
Resource
Management:
Ecological
Perspectives
Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
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Rajinder Peshin • Ashok K. Dhawan
Editors
Natural Resource
Management: Ecological
Perspectives
Editors
Rajinder Peshin Ashok K.Dhawan
Division of Agricultural Extension The Indian Ecological Society
Education, Faculty of Agriculture Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural
Sciences and Technology of Jammu
Chatha Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
ISSN 2567-9805 ISSN 2567-9821 (electronic)
Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
ISBN 978-3-319-99767-4 ISBN 978-3-319-99768-1 (eBook)
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Preface
Modern input-intensive agriculture has increased the productivity of food and fibre
crops, ensured food security for the 7.6 billion world population and provided food
at affordable prices. The benefits of agricultural modernization overweigh the harms
if we apply the consequential approach of utilitarian theory. However, modern
agriculture has also led to certain undesired consequences, namely depletion of
groundwater, soil erosion, pesticide resistance in pests, emergence of new insect
pest and diseases, chronic health effects of pesticides, loss of soil fertility, environ-
mental pollution and loss of biodiversity. Concern over global climate change, the
energy crisis, pesticide-intensive pest management and new interest in the potential
of biofuels have ushered in a new era of challenges and opportunities for agriculture
and natural resource management.
To overcome harms of modern input-intensive agriculture and concerns of cli-
mate change, the emphasis is on ecologically sustainable agriculture to wisely man-
age natural resources. Both public and private sector organizations contribute to
the development of agriculture. Development and transfer of proprietary technolo-
gies, namely hybrids, transgenic, agrochemicals and farm machinery as private
goods by the private sector, has a predominant role. Private-sector research in germ-
plasm improvements for food and non-food crops has been significant. Private-
sector involvement in natural resource management research, however, has been
very l imited, constrained by high risk and non-exclusiveness of the research results.
Public-sector research and extension are essential for natural resource management
and development and diffusion of production management technologies. Sustainable
use of natural resources requires environmental accountings to assess the damage to
land and water resources, loss of biodiversity, pesticides inflicted damages to human
health and beneficial organisms.
To address the issues of natural resource management from an intra and
interdisciplinary perspective, an international conference was organized by the
Indian Ecological Society in 2016 in which authorities from the disciplines of
agriculture (entomology, plant pathology, crop production and improvement,
extension education, resource economics), medical sciences, aquaculture, water
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management and engineering, private industry (pesticide, seed, forest products)
and non-governmental organizations (World Wide Fund for Nature, Centers for
International Projects Trust) presented papers. In this book, we have included
selected keynote lectures to provide a holistic perspective of natural resource
management issues. The book covers chapters on water management, the
Himalayan environment, biodiversity, role of microbes in agriculture, impact of
climate change on human health and crop pests, chronic health effects of pesticides,
pesticide resistance, exploiting chemical ecology for pest management, integrated
pest management, integrated farming systems, and the drivers of adoption of eco-
logically sustainable technologies.
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences Rajinder Peshin
and Technology of Jammu
Chatha Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Drs. Dinesh K. Marothia, Randeep Guleria, Keshav R. Kranthi,
Kamal Vatta, Masud H. Wani, Surinder K. Gupta, Chanda Siddoo-Atwal, Bushan
L. Jalali, Ambalal N. Sabalpara, Dharam P. Abrol and Kewal K. Sharma for their
keynote lectures in the Indian Ecological Society International Conference 2016,
on Natural Recourse Management: Ecological Perspectives, organized at the
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu,
India, on Feb. 18–20, 2016. I thank our authors for agreeing to publish their interest-
ing and valuable work presented in the conference in the form of book and Springer
for agreeing to publish this volume.
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences Rajinder Peshin
and Technology of Jammu
Chatha Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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tal concepts and recent advances in integrated pest management (IPM). Their ambi-
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