A5052962047- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Phytochemical Studies and Bioactivities
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Natural product bioactivities and synthesis
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Pharmacological Effects of Medicinal Plants
University of Southern Queensland
2019-2022
Practical Action
2015
Abstract Background Modern therapeutic medicine is historically based on indigenous therapies and ethnopharmacological uses, which have become recognized tools in the search for new sources of pharmaceuticals. Globalization herbal along with uncontrolled exploitative practices lack concerted conservation efforts, pushed many Nepal's medicinal plants to verge extinction. Sustainable utilization management plants, traditional knowledge, therefore necessary. Methods After establishing verbal...
Ecosystems provide a wide range of goods, services or ecosystem (ES) to society. Estimating the impact land use and cover (LULC) changes on ES values (ESV) is an important tool support decision making. This study used remote sensing GIS tools analyze LULC change transitions from 2001 2016 assess its ESV in tropical forested landscape southern plains Nepal. The total for year estimated at USD 1264 million year−1. As forests are dominant class have high value per hectare, they highest...
Indigenous plant use-systems have evolved under, and constantly adapted to human non-human impacts. In the last decades however, increasing socioeconomic cultural transformations, including land-use change, outmigration, globalized markets, introduction of new species, climate change led a decreasing availability indigenous resources, are ultimately leading reduction local use-knowledge. Participant observations, discussions, walks-in-the-woods, semi-structured interviews informal meetings...
Forest-based ecosystem services (ES) play a vital role in improving people’s livelihoods, the environment, and economy. Prior studies have focused on technical aspects of economic valuation such as biophysical quantification through modeling mapping, or monetary valuation, while little attention has been paid to social dimensions. Taking case two dominant community-based forest management systems (community forestry—CF collaborative forestry—CFM) Chure region Nepal, we investigate how local...
Paris polyphylla Sm. is an important perennial medicinal plant of the Himalayas that increasingly being used in traditional medicines and pharmaceutical industries. To meet this accelerating demand, people are harvesting it at unsustainable rates trading across Nepal through both legal illegal means. It therefore imperative to understand socio-ecological interactions regarding current distribution, use, trade, conservation P. polyphylla, order guide its sustainable production future. In...
The aggressiveness of invasive alien plant species has been amidst the changing climate, which necessitated further research in this area. impact Panchase area Nepal was assessed through forest resource assessment and other methodologies such as, household survey, group discussion, direct field observation, participatory cluster mapping, quadrat sampling, laboratory analysis, GIS mapping. A total nine major species, Ageratum houstonianum Ageratina adenophora were found spread throughout...
We reviewed 76 climate change adaptation projects that were operational between 2010 and 2020. The review was followed by office field visits for verification. visit helped crosscheck the findings, observations carried out December 2020 April 2021 asked 24 key informants collected supplementary information appraisal indicator development. Of CCA studied, most (n = 48, 32%) community-based initiatives, while least 12, 8%) ecosystem-based interventions. main environment-centered...
SUMMARY Forest certification raised a significant amount of interest around the world and it is now increasingly hailed as an incentive to improve community forest management poverty reduction since associated with local economic, social environmental impacts. We analyzed impacts found after Kalobhir Lahare user groups respectively Dolakha Bajhang districts Nepal assessed implications for livelihood management. The subject were sorted out studied following stakeholders key informants...
Forest ecosystem services (ES) valuation research has increased exponentially in recent years, and scholars accept that such could be useful reshaping governments’ policies. Despite scholarly efforts, the outcomes have had limited application actual policies plans. This study explores reasons why ES recommendations are not reflected policy processes proposes a framework which, when appropriately applied, would lead to adoption of findings. Literature review, semi-structured expert interviews...
Sugandhawal ( Valeriana jatamansi Jones) is a sub-tropical and temperate traditional medicinal plant, folkloric in Nepal for epilepsy, cholera neurosis used as analgesic, antispasmodic, antiseptic, carminative, diuretic, expectorant sedative. It serves promising source household economy, primary healthcare herbal market remedies, but it being harvested traded without considering its sustainability. Thus, the study of distribution, production, use, trade conservation prerequisite to...