Dr. Chandra Prakash Kala

Indian Institute of Forest Management, India

Email: cpkala@iifm.ac.in, cpkala@yahoo.co.uk

Qualifications

1998 Ph.D., Forest Research Institute, Forestry

1992 M.Sc., H.N.B. Garhwal University, Botany

Publications (Selected)

1. Kala, C. P. (2024). Promoting Agroforestry in India: Policy Analysis for Felling and Transit of Woods Grown in Private Lands. Small-scale Forestry, 23(3), 515-536.
2. Kala, C. P., & Nautiyal, S. (2023). Traditional food knowledge of local people and its sustainability in mountains of Uttarakhand State of India. Journal of social and economic development, 25(1), 32-51.
3. Sharma, N., & Kala, C. P. (2022). Patterns in plant species diversity along the altitudinal gradient in Dhauladhar mountain range of the North-West Himalaya in India. Trees, Forests and People, 7, 100196.
4. Sharma, N., & Kala, C. P. (2018). Patterns in distribution, population density and uses of medicinal plants along the altitudinal gradient in Dhauladhar mountain range of Indian Himalayas. Current Science, 2323-2328.
5. Kala, C. P. (2015). Forest structure and anthropogenic pressures in the Pachmarhi biosphere reserve of India. Journal of Forestry Research, 26, 867-874.
6. Kala, C. P. (2015). Herbal treatment for snakebites in Uttarakhand state of India.
7. Basannagari, B., & Kala, C. P. (2013). Climate change and apple farming in Indian Himalayas: A study of local perceptions and responses. Plos one, 8(10), e77976.
8. Kala, C. P. (2013). Traditional ecological knowledge on characteristics, conservation and management of soil in tribal communities of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, India. Journal of soil science and plant nutrition, 13(1), 187-199.
9. Kala, C. P., & Ratajc, P. (2012). High altitude biodiversity of the Alps and the Himalayas: ethnobotany, plant distribution and conservation perspective. Biodiversity and Conservation, 21, 1115-1126.
10. Kala, C. P., & Maikhuri, R. K. (2011). Mitigating people-park conflicts on resource use through ecotourism: A case of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Indian Himalaya. Journal of Mountain Science, 8(1), 87-95.
11. Semwal, D. P., Saradhi, P. P., Kala, C. P., & Sajwan, B. S. (2010). Medicinal plants used by local Vaidyas in Ukhimath block, Uttarakhand.
12. Phondani, P. C., Maikhuri, R. K., & Kala, C. P. (2010). Ethnoveterinary uses of medicinal plants among traditional herbal healers in Alaknanda catchment of Uttarakhand, India. African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines, 7(3).

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