Chandra Prakash Kala

Employment

• Indian Institute of Forest Management Faculty Member
  2008 - 2025
• National Medicinal Plants Board, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India Senior Consultant
  2006 - 2008
• Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development Research Associate
  2001 - 2006
• Wildlife Institute of India Research Biologist
  1993 - 2000

Education

• Forest Research Institute Dehradun Ph.D./ Ecology and Conservation of Alpine Meadows in the Valley of Flowers National Park, Garhwal Himalaya
  1995 - 1998
• Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University Master of Science in Botany
  1990 - 1992

Projects & Funding

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Publications (124)

• Agroforestry in a changing climate: Challenges, opportunities and solutions
  Ecological Frontiers 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecofro.2024.11.003
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• Community Participation, Technical Solutions, and Adaptive Management: Keys to Successful Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) Plantation Initiatives in Maharashtra
  Journal of Resources and Ecology 2025 DOI: 10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2025.03.009
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• Long-term ecological monitoring in India: A synthesis
  Biological Conservation 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111344
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• Promoting agroforestry in India: Policy analysis for felling and transit of woods grown in private lands.
  Small-scale Forestry 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-024-09574-2
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• Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of forest fires: A call for multilateral cooperation and management interventions.
  Natural Hazards Research 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nhres.2023.04.003
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• Traditional food knowledge of local people and its sustainability in mountains of Uttarakhand State of India
  Journal of Social and Economic Development 2023 DOI: 10.1007/S40847-022-00222-Z
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• Harvesting patterns, risk of harvesting and sustainability of medicinal and aromatic plants in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh in India
  Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmap.2021.100367
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• Patterns in plant species diversity along the altitudinal gradient in Dhauladhar mountain range of the North-West Himalaya in India
  Trees, Forests and People 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100196
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• Ethnic food knowledge of highland pastoral communities in the Himalayas and prospects for its sustainability
  International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgfs.2021.100309
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• Traditional System of Medicine and Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India
  Studies on Ethno-Medicine 2021 DOI: 10.31901/24566772.2021/15.3-4.635
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