Papers by Amit Kumar Bundela
Anthropocene Science, Apr 13, 2023
Anthropocene Science, Apr 12, 2023
Environmental Research, 2023
Climate change and environmental sustainability, 2021
Agronomy
Meeting food and nutritional security needs for a growing population is a global sustainability c... more Meeting food and nutritional security needs for a growing population is a global sustainability challenge due to the heavy reliance on a few cultivated crops for dietary requirements across the world. To ensure local food security, it is imperative to diversify dietary options with locally available, neglected, and underutilized crops (NUCs) with nutritional and biocultural significance. In this context, the present study aims to explore the role of NUCs for nutritional, ethnomedicinal, and agricultural relevance in two districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, i.e., Mirzapur and Sonebhadra. Extensive field surveys were conducted in the study sites, and a total of 445 local respondents were interviewed based on structured questionnaires for calculating ethnobotanical indices, i.e., relative frequency of citation (RFC), frequency of citation (FC), use report (UR), and cultural importance index (CI) of NUCs. The study identified 116 NUCs belonging to 55 families and 103 genera. All reported...
Journal of Environmental Management
Ecological Engineering, 2022
Learning How to Learn Using Multimedia, 2021
Online education is not new to the twenty-first century, especially to higher education. It is kn... more Online education is not new to the twenty-first century, especially to higher education. It is known since early 2000 and continues. Traditional education is offered in all government institutions in India. However, in March 2020, Education turned 360° immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic, which allegedly originated in Wuhan city of China in late December 2019. Since then, all the Educational Institutions including schools, colleges, universities, coaching centers insisted to shut down for an unknown time by the government to maintain social distancing and mitigating COVID-19 spread. Due to this, the traditional system was bound to shift to Online Education (OE). In this chapter, challenges that occurred due to the immediate shift to the online education system are discussed. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 2021
Abstract Agriculture is central to overall development of humankind and plays a decisive role in ... more Abstract Agriculture is central to overall development of humankind and plays a decisive role in the timely realization of several UN-Sustainable Development Goals. Nevertheless, agriculture is the largest nonpoint source of pollution primarily due to rampant use of agrochemicals, and contributes ~34% of the annual greenhouse gases emission globally. Agricultural practices are also one of the major drivers of global biodiversity loss, and exerts a heavy footprint on water amounting to 70% of the world's freshwater withdrawal annually. As per projections of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, agricultural production has to be doubled by the year 2050 to feed a global population of ~9.7 billion. However, this intensification must be done in an ecological way (not at the cost of planetary resilience) while designing novel strategies to reinforce agriculture's crucial role in achieving Global Goals. Hence, the notion of ‘planet friendly agriculture’ wherein food production has to be achieved within the planetary boundaries is getting global priority as a transitional as well as transformative solution for improving the wellbeing of people while safeguarding life-supporting systems of a heavily polluted, overexploited and resource crunched planet. This graphical review aimed to portray various planet friendly farming practices based on resource conservation and replenishment to strengthen food and nutrition security of the current and future generation while reducing pollution, greenhouse gases emission, biodiversity loss, and water footprint, even under changing climatic conditions.
Balneo Research Journal, 2017
Aquatic ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to environmental change and many are, at present, ... more Aquatic ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to environmental change and many are, at present, severely degraded. The availability of good quality water is an indispensable feature for preventing disease and improving quality of life. The physicochemical properties will also help in the identification of sources of pollution, for conducting further investigations on the ecobiological impacts and also for initiating necessary steps for remedial actions in case of polluted water bodies. Therefore, the nature and health of any aquatic community are an expression of quality of the water. The present study has been undertaken to evaluate physico-chemical parameters (pH, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, free carbon dioxide, sulphate content, chloride content and phosphate content) in 5 water bodies in and around Ranchi-Patratu Dam, Kanke dam, Dhruwa dam, Ranchi Lake, Line-tank Lake.
Anthropocene Science, 2022
Reversing ecosystem degradation and halting global biodiversity loss due to climate change and ot... more Reversing ecosystem degradation and halting global biodiversity loss due to climate change and other anthropogenic drivers are essential for socioeconomic development and human wellbeing, as well as for advancing global sustainability. The latest initiative in this direction is the 'Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework', which establishes a blueprint for global coordinated action towards development of national and regional strategies targeting conservation and sustainable utilization of biodiversity. By supporting the notion of 'ecological civilization', it emphasises the need for transformative strategies to conserve, monitor and sustainably manage ecosystems by 2030. Arguably the articulation of fit-for-purpose goals and targets is a key precondition for achieving this vision by enhancing cooperation and influencing the development of implementation strategies and regulatory instruments at national and local levels. The present Policy Analysis critically reviews the key features of the draft Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and suggests recommendations to further strengthen it.
Anthropocene Science
If we get this right-if we win the battle against plastic pollution-it will not only be a tangibl... more If we get this right-if we win the battle against plastic pollution-it will not only be a tangible victory for people and planet, but a clear example of how the United Nations is relevant to the lives of citizens around the world".-María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of The U. N. General Assembly, March 2, 2022. While there is an ongoing debate regarding the naming of this present epoch as the 'Anthropocene' (Luciano 2022), it is undoubtedly proven that anthropogenic interventions are continuing to alter the functioning of our critical life supporting systems and ultimately the resilience of our planet Earth itself. The industrial revolution coupled with rapid progress in urbanization, transportation, as well as in the agricultural sector have transformed our green planet as a toxic, chemical one (Cribb 2017; Lim 2021; Liu et al 2021). Anthropogenic activities are responsible for the dumping of more than 250 billion tons of chemical substances a year and thereby threatening the wellbeing of both people and planet (Cribb 2017; Woolston 2020). This indiscriminate chemical loading in our biosphere is posing an exposure risk of chemical toxicants to 4.2 billion people worldwide (Liu et al. 2021). The poisoning of our planet Earth through rampant, injudicious and unscientific usage of chemical entities is considered as one of the ten major survival risks confronting humanity (
Agronomy, 2020
The world population is projected to become 10 billion by the end of this century. This growing p... more The world population is projected to become 10 billion by the end of this century. This growing population exerts tremendous pressure on our finite food resources. Unfortunately, the lion-share of the global calorie intake is reliant upon a handful of plant species like rice, wheat, maize, soybean and potato. Therefore, it is the need of the hour to expand our dietary reliance to nutritionally rich but neglected, underutilized and yet-to-be-used wild plants. Many wild plants are also having ethnomedicinal and biocultural significance. Owing to their ecosystem plasticity, they are adapted to diverse habitats including marginal, degraded and other disturbed soil systems. Due to these resilient attributes, they can be considered for large-scale cultivation. However, proper biotechnological interventions are important for (i) removing the negative traits (e.g., low yield, slow growth, antinutritional factors, etc.), (ii) improving the positive traits (e.g., nutritional quality, stress t...
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