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Assessing the impact of global initiatives on current and future land restoration scenarios in India
(Academic Press Inc., 2023) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Bundela, Amit Kumar; Verma, Vivek; Dubey, Pradeep Kumar; Abhilash, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil
Land degradation across the world has resulted in an unprecedented decline of ecosystem services, affecting the livelihood of 3.2 billion people globally. Sustainable land management is essential to protect our finite land resources from over-exploitation and degradation. Therefore, the present article was aimed to analyze the impacts of various national and international policies on current and future land restoration scenarios in India. A spatially explicit model (CLUMondo) was employed to predict scenarios, i.e., the �business as usual� (BU) and �sustainable restoration� (SR) by 2030. Though the results showed an increasing trend in land degradation, i.e., from 44.28 to 49.74 Mha during the period of 2005�15, a slight decrease was observed in 2019 (49.24 Mha), suggesting a net increase of 11.21% during the 2005�19 period. However, an increase in forest cover by 5.08% under existing policy targets overtook the degradation rate by restoration initiatives. The net decline in degraded land area by 1% with an increased forest cover by 1.83% observed during the 2015�19 periods reflected the positive impact of various national and global policies on existing restoration ventures in India. Our modeled results (weighted AUC = 0.87) also suggested an increase in forest cover by 6.9% and 9.9% under BU and SR scenarios, respectively. Under the BU scenario, degraded land will be restored up to 12.1 Mha; however, 6.27 Mha of these lands will be converted to cropland for food production. Importantly, a decrease in grasslands by 35.1% under the BU scenario warrants the urgency to maintain the integrity of such ecological systems. However, the SR scenario showed an increase in grasslands by 8.9%, with an overall restoration of degraded land up to 18.31 Mha. Moreover, a reduced cropland expansion rate of 1% suggested an effective land management response. While our results may have some uncertainties due to the model limitations, they can still be used for framing suitable land management policies to facilitate sustainable land restoration programs in India. � 2022 Elsevier Inc.
Bioenergy crop production potential and carbon mitigation from marginal and degraded lands of India
(Elsevier Ltd, 2022) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Dubey, Pradeep Kumar; Chaturvedi, Rajiv Kumar; Abhilash, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil
Bioenergy production from marginal and degraded lands is getting worldwide attention due to its potential for renewable energy, land restoration, soil carbon sequestration and also for meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, majority of the literature reported the bioenergy production prospect based on a single bioenergy crop production system. Therefore, the present article utilizes a multi-criteria analysis to identify India's potential marginal and degraded lands (Pml) and their suitability for bioenergy crop production based on a polyculture zonation technique (PZT) with the projections for bioenergy and carbon mitigation potentials. Ten multipurpose bioenergy crops have been studied, out of which seven hardwood tree species were further selected based on ecological and climate suitability. Results suggested that India accounted for 45.13 million ha (Mha) of Pml, and it could produce 96.82 Mt y?1 of biomass and 6.16 Mt y?1 of biofuel, considering half utilization of the plantation areas. Such productions represent 2.22 EJ y?1 (equivalent to 618 TW h y?1) of bioenergy potential. Around 64 Mt C y?1 can also be sequestered by these plantations and additionally help in meeting carbon sequestration over 2800 MtCO2 by 2030, corresponding to India's nationally determined contribution. According to the spatial validation results via centroid coinciding approach, 14 randomly generated points out of 24 coincided on the centroids of randomly identified land parcels, which were further validated through the ortho-imagery from Google Earth. Our study results can be used for framing suitable strategies for exploring bioenergy production from similar agroecological conditions and also for attaining India's national and international commitments related to land restoration and renewable energy production. � 2022 Elsevier Ltd
Carbon sequestration and harnessing biomaterials from terrestrial plantations for mitigating climate change impacts
(Elsevier, 2022) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Tripathi, Vishal; Dubey, Pradeep Kumar; Abhilash, P.C.
Global warming and associated climatic changes due to rapidly increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission majorly by various anthropogenic activities led to negative impacts on various natural resources including the land and forest systems. Biomass production has been continuously suggested to address these issues, as it not only assists in environmental cleanup but also sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) under both aboveground and belowground domains. Being a versatile source of renewable energy, biomass uses are very much diversified such as bioenergy, biocomposites, biopolymers, bioplastics, and other biomaterials thereby providing strength to build cohesive bioeconomy for sustainable development. Therefore, the present chapter deals with the abovementioned account for the same in order to address several targets of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs). Moreover, it also focuses on potential practices to enhance the production of quality biomass feedstock from degraded and neglected natural resources such as the marginal and degraded lands and forest systems for human well-being and nature's vitality. � 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Emergy-based sustainability analysis of bioenergy production from marginal and degraded lands of India
(Elsevier B.V., 2022) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Sahiba, Sheikh Arshiya; Chen, Bin; Abhilash, P.C.
Analysing the sustainability of cultivating biomass and biofuel plant species on marginal and degraded lands is essential for assessing the socio-economic and environmental perspectives. Various approaches have been suggested for the sustainability analyses, such as life cycle assessment, footprint analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis, and emergy analysis. Among these approaches, the emergy analysis is one of the most direct methods to assess the system's sustainability. The present article was aimed to perform the emergy analysis to quantify the ecological impacts, bioenergy potential, socio-economic efficiency, and the sustainability of the bioenergy production systems. The emergy-based sustainability analysis was conducted for the Soyabean-, Pongamia-, Jatropha-based biodiesel and Tectona-based biomass production systems from the Indian marginal and degraded lands. Results depicted that under a set of system boundaries for each plant species, total emergy output (U) of 1000 kg biodiesel (biomass in case of Tectona) was calculated to be 0.99E+16 for Soyabean-; 1.01E+16 for Pongamia-; 1.33E+16 for Jatropha- and 0.72E+16 sej for Tectona-based bioenergy production options. Emergy of fuels dominated the economic inflows (F) (32.53%) under the Soyabean-based option making it the second system to represent a greater environmental load ratio (ELR) of 17.98. Furthermore, the emergy of water resources was dominated under F in other studied bioenergy options, i.e., 38.08% of F in Pongamia-, 44.54% in Jatropha-, and 66.52% in Tectona-based systems. The emergy sustainability indices (ESI) of 0.06, 1.04, 0.34, and 0.02 were found for Soyabean-, Pongamia-, Jatropha-, Tectona-based bioenergy production systems, respectively. Sensitivity analysis further suggested that a decrease of 3.5% in F resulted in a 10.02% increase of ESI for the Pongamia-based option. Pongamia-based options depicted an ESI > 1, which could be considered to have a sustainable contribution to the economy for medium periods. The estimated ESIs were fundamentally low because the systems were dependent mainly on the F. � 2022
Managing Soil Resources for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability
(Springer Nature, 2021) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Rakshit, Amitava; Dubey, Pradeep K.; Abhilash, P.C.; Singh, S.K.; Patra, Ashok K.; Pathak, Himanshu
Rapidly increasing global human population has led to the intensive land use change, and the over exploitation of soil resources resulting in the diminished soil health, ecosystem services, and human well-being. Depriving nutrients from the soil systems due unsustainable practices has further led to low productivity and quality of the crop yields. As a result, it led to the scarcity of the food with limiting nutrients reflecting various nutrient deficiencies and human health disorders. Therefore, it is the need of the hour to restore the health of our soil resources for improving the food and nutrition secuirty of present as well as future generations. In this backdrop, the present chapter is aimed to discuss the drivers of soil degradation, highlight the impact of soil degradation on human health and suggests various adaptive practices to maintain the soil health while improving the quality of crop yield for environmental sustainability and human health. � The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021.
Need of transdisciplinary research for accelerating land restoration during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Abhilash, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil
The United Nations has declared 2021�2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to gear up the restoration of degraded ecosystems worldwide and thereby facilitating the timely realization of the UN-SDGs and post-2020 biodiversity targets. The UN Decade will also further the targets of the Bonn Challenge and several other ongoing restoration initiatives. While restoration is often viewed as a branch of applied ecology, transdisciplinarity is essential for implementing restoration on the ground successfully. The present article is therefore aimed to propose a transdisciplinary framework consisting of three defined phases -such as (1) the problem identification phase, (2) its analysis, and (3) finally the integration and application of transdisciplinary approaches for effective land restoration. This integrated framework would help in drawing strategic measures by crossing various disciplinary boundaries to accelerate land restoration efforts globally while deriving co-benefits during restoration for maintaining the continuity of the restoration drive. We conclude that the implementation of the proposed framework along with due consideration of the regional and location-specific attributes, management strategies as well as the successful involvement of various stakeholders will lead to a successful restoration Decade. � 2021 Society for Ecological Restoration.
Saline Soil Reclamation Index as an efficient tool for assessing restoration progress of saline land
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Tripathi, Vishal; Chaturvedi, Rajiv Kumar; Dubey, Dinesh Kumar; Patel, Girish; Abhilash, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil
Restoration of degraded land is imperative for addressing climate change, deriving additional benefits such as biomass and biofuel for supporting a biobased economy and also for meeting various targets of the Bonn Challenge and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs). In this context, the present research aimed to evaluate the performance of mixed biomass plantations on the saline land of western India over a period of 4 years. The impact of plantations on soil quality over the study period (2015�2018) was analysed by the Saline Soil Reclamation Index (SSRI), developed through principal component analysis. The study found a strong correlation between plant growth attributes and soil quality (p <.01). Soil porosity, texture, pH balance, electrical conductivity (EC), available potassium (AK) and available nitrogen (AN) levels are found to be the key indicators regulating the plant growth. The EC, AK and AN levels were seen to change significantly during the initial stage (2014) from 25 dS m?1, 10 mg kg?1 and 23 mg kg?1 to 1 dS m?1, 24 mg kg?1 and 39 mg kg?1, respectively, towards the end of the study period (2018). Among the various test plants, six species (Albizia lebbeck, Casuarina equisetifolia, Cordia dichotoma, Pithecellobium dulce, Pongamia pinnata, Terminalia arjuna) were found with high SSRI (>0.50); while the rest displayed moderate SSRI (0.30�0.49), except for Azadirachta indica, which shown low SSRI (<0.30). The trees having high SSRI are most suitable for the reclamation of saline soil and therefore, SSRI can be used as a tool for assessing the progress of saline land restoration. � 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Tectona grandis L.f. mediated restoration of marginal lands in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, North India
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2023) Edrisi, Sheikh Adil; Singh, Ajeet; Dubey, Pradeep Kumar; Abhilash, Purushothaman C.
Tectona grandis L.f. has considerable potential to restore marginal and degraded lands as it offers multiple co-benefits during the restoration venture. It provides good quality wood for multipurpose use, including biomass for bioenergy and noninvasive traits. For this, aboveground biomass (AGB) was assessed along with testing the critical soil properties (soil physicochemical and biological properties) across different plantation sites during a 4-year study period (2015�2018). The study suggested that the soil properties like bulk density, moisture content, pH, organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium have shown significant mean improvement in all planted sites collectively. These were improved by ?0.21 g cm?3, 0.68%, ?0.68, 0.27%, 13.69 mg kg?1, 11.77 mg kg?1, 95.20 mg kg?1, respectively, in an arid area (Mirzapur, i.e., M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, and M6 sites, representing a warm and tropical dry climate) from the unplanted control (CM1) during 2015�2018. Moreover, the microbial biomass carbon and dehydrogenase activity were significantly improved by 56.71 mg kg?1 and 6.92 ?g TPF g?1�hr?1, respectively, from CM1. Similar results were also observed in the semiarid areas of Varanasi, representing a humid subtropical climatic pattern (i.e., V4 and V5 sites) compared to the unplanted control in the (CV1). Furthermore, the AGB was found between 12.56 and 229.13 kg tree?1, representing 5 and 30 years of plantation, respectively, in 2018. Reference sites (V1, V2, and V3) were also considered that reflect a planted control, which helped assess the comparison between variable sites and the sites under restoration. Therefore, the study further suggested that this tree species has the tremendous potential to restore marginal and degraded lands in the arid and semiarid areas of North India with a significant biomass supply as an additional benefit. � 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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