Rajan Kotru
Biographic Data
| ID | 2001930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajan Kotru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotru |
| SIGNATURE | KOTRU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9731-9648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Biodiversity Conservation and Management in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region
Maintaining the health of biodiversity and ecosystem services is becoming an increasingly important concern for the global community. The biodiversity-rich Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region provides a myriad of ecosystem services but is experiencing rapid biodiversity loss and habitat degradation under the influence of climate change and other drivers of change. Biodiversity and ecosystem services often transcend geopolitical boundaries, and biod…
Diversity and use of wild and non-cultivated edible plants in the Western Himalaya
BACKGROUND: Local people in the Himalayan region use a wide range of wild and non-cultivated edible plants (WNEPs) for food, spice, medicinal, and cultural purposes. However, their availability, use, status and contribution to livelihood security are poorly documented, and they have been generally overlooked in recent agro-biodiversity conservation and management programmes. The study aimed to investigate WNEP diversity and current status in a pa…
Advancing Regional and Transboundary Cooperation in the Conflict-Prone Hindu Kush–Himalaya
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) supports regional and transboundary cooperation to meet challenges of climate change, disaster risks, and sustainable development in the Hindu Kush–Himalaya (HKH). Action to sustain the HKH has the potential to directly improve the lives of more than one fourth of the world's population. However, facilitating cooperation and policy coherence among the countries sharing HKH reso…
A Framework for the Assessment of Cultural Ecosystem Services of Sacred Natural Sites in the Hindu Kush Himalayas; Based on fieldwork in the Kailash Sacred Landscape regions of India and Nepal - Icimo…
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are the non-material benefits that humans obtain from the natural environment. They include, for example, getting a sense of community roots and/or religious meaning from natural sites; deriving aesthetic pleasure and satisfaction from natural landscapes; using natural sites/landscapes as a source for recreation and education, and so on. CES are one of the four primary kinds of benefits that humans derives from e…
Forest Condition Monitoring Using Very-High-Resolution Satellite Imagery in a Remote Mountain Watershed in Nepal
Satellite imagery has proven extremely useful for repetitive timeline-based data collection, because it offers a synoptic view and enables fast processing of large quantities of data. The changes in tree crown number and land cover in a very remote watershed (area 1305 ha) in Nepal were analyzed using a QuickBird image from 2006 and an IKONOS image from 2011. A geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) was carried out using the region-growi…
Gender Equality Challenges to the Redd+ Initiative in Nepal
Despite widespread gender issues in natural resource management and rural livelihoods strategies, there has been little study of how new development strategies, such as Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD ), consider gender issues. Gender consideration in REDD is especially important in mountainous countries like Nepal, where the majority of the rural population, especially women and socioeconomically disadvantaged h…
Diversity and use of wild and non-cultivated edible plants in the Western Himalaya
BACKGROUND: Local people in the Himalayan region use a wide range of wild and non-cultivated edible plants (WNEPs) for food, spice, medicinal, and cultural purposes. However, their availability, use, status and contribution to livelihood security are poorly documented, and they have been generally overlooked in recent agro-biodiversity conservation and management programmes. The study aimed to investigate WNEP diversity and current status in a pa…
Gender Equality Challenges to the Redd+ Initiative in Nepal
Despite widespread gender issues in natural resource management and rural livelihoods strategies, there has been little study of how new development strategies, such as Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD ), consider gender issues. Gender consideration in REDD is especially important in mountainous countries like Nepal, where the majority of the rural population, especially women and socioeconomically disadvantaged h…
Forest Condition Monitoring Using Very-High-Resolution Satellite Imagery in a Remote Mountain Watershed in Nepal
Satellite imagery has proven extremely useful for repetitive timeline-based data collection, because it offers a synoptic view and enables fast processing of large quantities of data. The changes in tree crown number and land cover in a very remote watershed (area 1305 ha) in Nepal were analyzed using a QuickBird image from 2006 and an IKONOS image from 2011. A geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) was carried out using the region-growi…
A Framework for the Assessment of Cultural Ecosystem Services of Sacred Natural Sites in the Hindu Kush Himalayas; Based on fieldwork in the Kailash Sacred Landscape regions of India and Nepal - Icimo…
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are the non-material benefits that humans obtain from the natural environment. They include, for example, getting a sense of community roots and/or religious meaning from natural sites; deriving aesthetic pleasure and satisfaction from natural landscapes; using natural sites/landscapes as a source for recreation and education, and so on. CES are one of the four primary kinds of benefits that humans derives from e…
Advancing Regional and Transboundary Cooperation in the Conflict-Prone Hindu Kush–Himalaya
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) supports regional and transboundary cooperation to meet challenges of climate change, disaster risks, and sustainable development in the Hindu Kush–Himalaya (HKH). Action to sustain the HKH has the potential to directly improve the lives of more than one fourth of the world's population. However, facilitating cooperation and policy coherence among the countries sharing HKH reso…
Diversity and use of wild and non-cultivated edible plants in the Western Himalaya
BACKGROUND: Local people in the Himalayan region use a wide range of wild and non-cultivated edible plants (WNEPs) for food, spice, medicinal, and cultural purposes. However, their availability, use, status and contribution to livelihood security are poorly documented, and they have been generally overlooked in recent agro-biodiversity conservation and management programmes. The study aimed to investigate WNEP diversity and current status in a pa…
Biodiversity Conservation and Management in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region
Maintaining the health of biodiversity and ecosystem services is becoming an increasingly important concern for the global community. The biodiversity-rich Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region provides a myriad of ecosystem services but is experiencing rapid biodiversity loss and habitat degradation under the influence of climate change and other drivers of change. Biodiversity and ecosystem services often transcend geopolitical boundaries, and biod…
Geography (6 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Biodiversity (2 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 works) · Ecosystem (2 works)