Urban forestry

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• Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 04:58:30 +0200
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10th Oct 1994

Dear Researchers

sub : URBAN FORESTRY

At Bangalore, India, study on Urban forestry has been taken up
by the Indian Institute of Science.  The varied vegetation in
different environs will be studied.  The different categories
of environs for study are residential areas, industrial areas,
institutions and parks.  These environs are further classified
into new and old establishments to study the various species
prevalent in the locality.  The residential areas will further
be categorised into new and old extentions.  In these
extentions, the area will be subdivided into lower and higher
socio-ecconomic strata and the varied species in these different
categories will be analysed.  

	In India, temples are regarded as sacred land.  The vegetation
in temples are maintained as sacred grooves and the vegetation
is unique in diffferent temples according to the diety.  Hence a
study of trees in temples have also been taken up. 
In this survey, we are engaging undergraduate Botany students after a
training program during their vacations.This study will give an
 insight of the biodiversity in the Bangalore urban area.
Further, it is intended to study the carbon sequestration of
urban trees. The study of the change in urban forest cover due
to urbanization will be undertaken based on maps by remote sensing images.

	I have come across references, where similar work has been done
in Kenya, Hong kong, Helsinki, Indonesia and others.
I request researchers in the same field to share their findings
and view, which will help me in our research.

In anticipation,
With Thanks,

Dr.P. Sudha,
Centre for Ecological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560 012

p.s: Kindly mail your reply/ suggestions to my e mail address and I shall
post to the network my query along with replies later.

e_mail address: psudha@ces.iisc.ernet.in

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