Threatened Medicinal Plants in the Indian Himalayan Region - Sustainability Challenges and Conservation Strategies

The book provides an in-depth analysis of the major issues related to the conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Indian Himalayan region. The book is a comprehensive resource and sustainability of challenges and conservation strategies that highlights the critical role of medicinal plants in traditional healthcare systems and identifies the significant threats that these plants face due to various anthropogenic and natural factors. The book covers ten major themes that are critical to understanding the sustainability conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Indian Himalayan region. It provides an essential resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the sustainability conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Himalayan area. The book provides an overview of the major issues related to medicinal plant sustainability conservation and suggests strategies for the sustainable management of these plants. The authors have provideda comprehensive and insightful analysis of the sustainability conservation status of medicinal plants in the region, highlighting the urgent need for concerted efforts to conserve these valuable resources.

List of contents

Threatened medicinal plants: Population assessment.- Threatened medicinal plants: Threat assessment.- Impact of tourism on diversity of threatened medicinal plants.- Impact of climate change on threatened medicinal plants.- Impact of excessive livestock grazing on the threatened medicinal plants.- Market and illegal trade of threatened medicinal plants.- Dependency and role of local communities in medicinal plant conservation.- Sustainability conservation strategies of threatened medicinal plants.- Sustainability challenges in threatened medicinal plant conservation.- Sustainable management of threatened medicinal plants.- Sustainability policy and planning for conservation of medicinal plants.

Product details

• Assisted by: Naveen Chandra (Editor), Naveen Chandra et al (Editor), Amit Kumar (Editor), Arun Pratap Mishra (Editor), Chaitanya Baliram Pande (Editor), Gajendra Singh (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2025
• EAN: 9783031736865
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3173686-5
• No. of pages: 309
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 21 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 602 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 309 p. 64 illus., 59 illus. in color.
• Series: World Sustainability Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Umweltschutz, Organische Chemie, Ökologie, Biosphäre, Sustainability, Pflanzenbiologie, Conservation, Natural Products, Conservation Biology, Plant Ecology, Medicinal Plants, Sustainability Development, Threatened Medicinal Plants, Indian Himalayan Region