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Deforestation Around Urban Centres in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

B. Bowonder,
S. S. R. Prasad and
N. V. M. Unni
B. Bowonder
Affiliation:
Chairman, Centre for Energy, Environment & Technology, Administrative Staff College of India, Bella Vista, Hyderabad 500 049, India
S. S. R. Prasad
Affiliation:
Project Associate, Centre for Energy, Environment & Technology, Administrative Staff College of India, Bella Vista, Hyderabad 500 049, India
N. V. M. Unni
Affiliation:
Head, Ecology and Forest Division, National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad 500 037, India
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Whereas it used to be supposed rather widely that fuel-wood was used mainly in rural areas, large-scale migration of rural people to urban areas, and the consequent mushrooming growth of squatter settlements in urban areas (cf. Fig. 4), have increased the consumption of fuel-wood in those areas. The shortage of fuel-wood coupled with the increase in demand, has caused steep rises in the price of fuel-wood in urban areas. Although a large number of studies on deforestation have appeared, the actual forces behind deforestation have been very poorly understood in most of the developing countries (Hadley & Lanly, 1983), while information of where fuel-wood is actually consumed is not widely available. If deforestation is really to be arrested, comprehensive studies on the demand and supply of fuel-wood will have to be generated and concomitant action ensured.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987, pp. 23 - 28
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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