Maurya et al. (2025) Geospatial information services for climate-resilient natural resource management in the Indian Himalayan Region

Identification

• Journal: Elsevier eBooks
• Year: 2025
• Date: 2025-11-28
• Authors: Vipul Maurya, Ashish Mani, Parag Madhukar Dhakate
• DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-443-29216-3.00011-4

Research Groups

• Department of Forestry, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Amity School of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development (ASNRD), Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Uttarakhand Forest Department, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Short Summary

This paper advocates for the application of geospatial information services, including GIS and remote sensing, to enhance climate-resilient natural resource management in the Indian Himalayan Region.

Objective

• To advocate for and demonstrate the utility of geospatial information services (GIS and remote sensing) as a scientific and cost-effective approach for climate-resilient natural resource management in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR).

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), ranging from large-scale regional analysis to small-scale watershed basins.
• Temporal Scale: Not explicitly defined for a specific study period; focuses on ongoing and future application of natural resource management tools.

Methodology and Data

• Models used: Various Geographic Information System (GIS) platforms.
• Data sources: Digital elevation model (DEM) data, multispectral satellite imagery.

Main Results

• The paper asserts that remote sensing and GIS-based approaches provide scientific, cost-effective, and precise methods for natural resource management, particularly for assessing watershed basins and characterizing diverse landscapes, as demonstrated by numerous prior studies.
• It highlights that manual assessment of environmental and landscape factors is error-prone and labor-intensive, especially across varying scales.

Contributions

• This chapter synthesizes the importance and application of geospatial information services (GIS and remote sensing) as a scientific, cost-effective, and precise tool for climate-resilient natural resource management, specifically contextualizing its utility within the environmentally sensitive Indian Himalayan Region.

Funding

• Not mentioned in the provided text.

Citation

@article{Maurya2025Geospatial,
  author = {Maurya, Vipul and Mani, Ashish and Dhakate, Parag Madhukar},
  title = {Geospatial information services for climate-resilient natural resource management in the Indian Himalayan Region},
  journal = {Elsevier eBooks},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1016/b978-0-443-29216-3.00011-4},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-29216-3.00011-4}
}