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Diversity and Abundance of Medicinal Plants Among Different Forest-Use Types of the Pakistani Himalaya
DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS AMONG DIFFERENT FOREST-USE TYPES OF THE PAKISTANI HIMALAYA Muhammad Adnan (Born in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Academic Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen Supervisor Prof. Dr. Dirk Hölscher Göttingen, November 2011 Reviewers Prof. Dr. Dirk Hölscher Prof. Dr. Christian Ammer Examiners Prof. Dr. Dirk Hölscher Prof. Dr. Christian Ammer Prof. Dr. Erwin Bergmeier ii SUMMARY Medicinal plants collected in the Himalayan forests are receiving increasing attention at the international level for a number of reasons and they play an important role in securing rural livelihoods. However, these forests have been heavily transformed over the years by logging, grazing and agriculture. This thesis examines the extent to which the diversity and abundance of medicinal plants are affected between forest-use types as a result of such transformations. In northwestern Pakistan we studied old-growth forest, degraded forests (forests degraded by logging, derived woodland, agroforest and degraded sites) and restored forests (re-growth forests and reforestation sites). An approximate map was initially established covering an area of 90 km2 of the studied forest-use types and fifteen and five plots were allocated to five and two forest-use types respectively at altitudes ranging from 2,200 m to 2,400 m asl. The abundance and diversity of medicinal plants were then assessed therein. Of the fifty-nine medicinal plant species (herbs and ferns) studied, old-growth forest contained the highest number thereof with fifty-five species, followed by re-growth forest with forty-nine species and finally, forest degraded by logging with only forty species. -
Willingness to Pay for Margalla Hills National Park: Evidence from the Travel Cost Method
The Lahore Journal of Economics 11 : 2 (Winter 2006) pp. 43-70 Willingness to Pay for Margalla Hills National Park: Evidence from the Travel Cost Method Himayatullah Khan* Abstract This study, which is among the first in Pakistan to value recreational benefits, estimates the benefits of the Margalla Hills National Park near Islamabad. The study examines how much park visitors are willing to pay to visit the park. Annual benefits from the park are considerable—the total annual consumer surplus or economic benefit obtained from recreation in the park is approximately Rs. 23 million (US $ 0.4 million). Various factors influence the value visitors obtain from the park — these include travel cost, household income, and the quality of the park. Improvements in the quality of the park are estimated to increase recreational benefits by 39%. The study recommends that a park entrance fee of Rs. 20 per person be introduced, which could be utilized for park management. This would generate nearly Rs. 11 million in revenues annually, a sizable amount of money that represents about 4% of the annual budget allocated to the environment sector in Pakistan. JEL Classification: Keywords: Environmental valuation, willingness to pay, total recreational value, consumer surplus, environmental resources, national parks, Pakistan. * The author is Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar and currently on deputation to Department of Development Studies, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad. This paper is based on Himayatullah (2003). The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). -
Survey of Human-Leopard (Panthera Pardus) Conflict in Yubiaa National Park, Pakistan
Journal of Bioresource Management Volume 7 Issue 2 Article 5 Survey of human-leopard (Panthera Pardus) conflict in yubiaA National Park, Pakistan Muhammad Nabeel Awan Government College University Lahore, [email protected] Atif Yaqub Government College University Lahore, [email protected] Muhammad Kamran Quaid-e-Azam university Islamabad, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/jbm Part of the Animal Sciences Commons, and the Biology Commons Recommended Citation Nabeel Awan, M., Yaqub, A., & Kamran, M. (2020). Survey of human-leopard (Panthera Pardus) conflict in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan, Journal of Bioresource Management, 7 (2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.35691/JBM.0202.0130 ISSN: 2309-3854 online (Received: May 4, 2020; Accepted: ; Published: Jun 1, 2020) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Bioresource Management by an authorized editor of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Survey of human-leopard (Panthera Pardus) conflict in yubiaA National Park, Pakistan © Copyrights of all the papers published in Journal of Bioresource Management are with its publisher, Center for Bioresource Research (CBR) Islamabad, Pakistan. This permits anyone to copy, redistribute, remix, transmit and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes provided the original work and source is appropriately cited. Journal of Bioresource Management does not grant you any other rights in relation to this website or the material on this website. In other words, all other rights are reserved. For the avoidance of doubt, you must not adapt, edit, change, transform, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, rebroadcast or show or play in public this website or the material on this website (in any form or media) without appropriately and conspicuously citing the original work and source or Journal of Bioresource Management’s prior written permission. -
Influence of Urban Sprawl on Microclimate of Abbottabad
land Article Influence of Urban Sprawl on Microclimate of Abbottabad, Pakistan Liaqat Ali Waseem 1 , Malik Abid Hussain Khokhar 2,* , Syed Ali Asad Naqvi 1 , Dostdar Hussain 3 , Zahoor Hussain Javed 1 and Hisham Bin Hafeez Awan 2 1 Department of Geography, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab 38000, Pakistan; [email protected] (L.A.W.); [email protected] (S.A.A.N.); [email protected] (Z.H.J.) 2 NUST Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (NIPCONS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; [email protected] 3 Department of Computer Sciences, Karakoram International University, Gilgit 15100, Pakistan; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +92-342-4779562 Abstract: Urban centers are expanding rapidly due to quickly-increasing population which results in microclimate change due to lack of urban planning. Factors like degradation of green areas, trees, and vegetation are defining a new regime of urban environment giving rise to a lack of drinking water and lowering water tables. Consequently, unplanned urban sprawl with all its varied facets is having adverse impacts on the environment. Rapid variations in some of its climatic factors in the immediate vicinity are alarming and need to redress at war footings. This paper is an endeavor to present a hypothesis that urban sprawl plays a vital role in impacting and the influencing the microclimate of the city or the area. In this research, geospatial approaches were adopted to identify urban sprawl. Rise in land surface temperature (LST) for the last 25 years (from 1990 to 2016) has been highlighted using Landsat (5 TM, 7 ETM+ and 8 TIRS) satellite images. -
According to the Syllabus of University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir
LLB FIVE YEARS DEGREE PROGRAMME NOTES According to the Syllabus of University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Muzaffarabad and Other Public, Private Sector Universities of Pakistan Prepared By Advocate Muhammad Adnan Masood Joja Sardar Javed Zahoor Khan (Advocate) CITI Law College Rawalakot 05824-442207, 444222, 0332-4573251, 051-4852737 Near CMH Rawalakot AJK Web:-www.clc.edu.pk Citi Law College, Near CMH, Rawalakot Ph: 05824-442207, 051-4852737 www.clc.edu.pk Page | 1 Citi Law College, Near CMH, Rawalakot Ph: 05824-442207, 051-4852737 www.clc.edu.pk Page | 2 Citi Law College, Near CMH, Rawalakot Ph: 05824-442207, 051-4852737 www.clc.edu.pk Page | 3 Citi Law College, Near CMH, Rawalakot Ph: 05824-442207, 051-4852737 www.clc.edu.pk Page | 4 Citi Law College, Near CMH, Rawalakot Ph: 05824-442207, 051-4852737 www.clc.edu.pk Page | 5 FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH Citi Law College, Near CMH, Rawalakot Ph: 05824-442207, 051-4852737 www.clc.edu.pk Page | 6 Parts of Speech NOUNS A noun is the word that refers to a person, thing or abstract idea. A noun can tell you who or what. There are several different types of noun: - There are common nouns such as dog, car, chair etc. Nouns that refer to things which can be counted (can be singular or plural) are countable nouns. Nouns that refer to some groups of countable nouns, substances, feelings and types of activity (can only be singular) are uncountable nouns. Nouns that refer to a group of people or things are collective nouns. Nouns that refer to people, organizations or places are proper nouns, only proper nouns are capitalized. -
Abbottabad City Development Plan – Draft Final Report
KP-SISUG Abbottabad City Development Plan – Draft Final Report Pakistan: Provincial Strategy for Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Growth in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ABBOTTABAD CITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN DRAFT FINAL REPORT March 2019 KP-SISUG Abbottabad City Development Plan – Draft Final Report CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 01 January 2019) Currency unit – Pakistan Rupee (PKR) PKR1.00 = $0.0072 $1.00 = PKRs 138.85 ABBREVIATIONS ADA - Abbottabad Development Authority ADB - Asian Development Bank ADP - annual development program AP - action plan BOQ - bills of quantities BTE - Board of Technical Education CAD - computerized aided design CBT - competency based training CDIA - Cities Development Initiative for Asia CDP - city development plan CES - community entrepreneurial skills CIU - city implementation unit CMST - community management skills training CNC - computer numerical control CNG - compressed natural gas CPEC - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor CRVA - climate resilience and vulnerability assessment DAO - District Accounts Office DDAC - District Development Advisory Committee DFID - Department for International Development (UK) DFR - draft final report DM - disaster management DRR - disaster risk reduction EA - executing agency EFI - electronic fuel injection EIA - environmental impact assessment EMP - environmental management plan EPA - Environmental Protection Agency [of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] i KP-SISUG Abbottabad City Development Plan – Draft Final Report ESMS - environmental and social management system FATA - Federally Administered Tribal Area -
Phytotherapy Among the Rural Women of District Abbotabad
Pak. J. Bot., 45(SI): 253-261, January 2013. PHYTOTHERAPY AMONG THE RURAL WOMEN OF DISTRICT ABBOTABAD GHULAM MUJTABA SHAH*, ZAFAR JAMAL AND MANZOOR HUSSAIN Department of Botany Govt. Postgraduate College Abbottabad *Corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected] Abstract The present communication highlights the scope of ethnomedicinal plants for women’s health care in Abbottabad district, Northern Pakistan. Participatory Action Research (PAR) and field visits were planned to elicit information on the uses of various medicinal plants by women. Field trips were undertaken covering different rural and tribal populated areas of the district to document ethnomedicinal plants used by women for the treatment of various diseases. The women chieftains were accorded a significant role in discussions since they possess more cognizances about the utility of local herbal products in curing various diseases. The study revealed that 67 plant species belonging to 65 genera and 47 families are used in women’s folk medicinal system. The medicinal plants are mostly used to cure amenorrhoea, skin allergies, and leucorrhoea, as abortifacient, post delivery pain, dandruff, eczema, tonic after delivery and for breast milk secretion. All these herbal medicines belong to 65.67% herbaceous ground flora, 8.95% shrubs, 22.38% trees and 2,98% climbers. Resins, exudates, leaves, shoots, fruits, seeds, bark, tubers and roots are the plants components which are utilized as medicinal ingredients. Plant components are used fresh, dried or both. Further research in needed to isolate the compounds responsible for the observed biological activity. Introduction been done in this field by many researchers (Chaudhri, 1959; Farooq, 1990; Haq & Hussain, 1993; Hussain & Plants have been used in various traditional medicinal Khaliq, 1996; Shinwari & khan, 1999; Gilani et al., 2001; systems for the treatment of human ailments. -
2015 " 35Th PAKISTAN CONGRESS of ZOOLOGY (INTERNATIONAL) CENTRE OF
PROCEEDINGS OF PAKISTAN CONGRESS OF ZOOLOGY Volume 35, 2015 All the papers in this Proceedings were refereed by experts in respective disciplines THIRTY FOURTH PAKISTAN CONGRESS OF ZOOLOGY held under auspices of THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PAKISTAN at CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN MARINE BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI, KARACHI MARCH 1 – 4, 2015 CONTENTS Acknowledgements i Programme ii Members of the Congress xi Citations Life Time Achievement Award 2015 Late Prof. Dr. Shahzad A. Mufti ............................................xv Dr. Quddusi B. Kazmi .........................................................xvii Dr. Muhammad Ramzan Mirza.............................................xix Abdul Aziz Khan...................................................................xx Zoologist of the year award 2015............................................... xxii Prof. Dr. A.R. Shakoori Gold Medal 2015 ............................... xxiii Prof. Dr. Mirza Azhar Beg Gold Medal 2015 ........................... xxiv Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad Gold Medal 2015 ........................................xxv Prof. Dr. Nasima M. Tirmizi Memorial Gold Medal 2015..........xxvi Gold Medals for M.Sc. and Ph.D. positions 2015 ................... xxviii Certificate of Appreciation .........................................................xxx Research papers SAMI, A.J. JABBAR, B., AHMAD, N., NAZIR, M.T. AND SHAKOORI, A.R. in silico analysis of structure-function relationship of a neutral lipase from Tribolium castaneum .......................... 1 KHAN, I., HUSSAIN, A., KHAN, A. AND -
48 MW JAGRAN-II HYDROPOWER PROJECT May 5, 2017
; 48 MW JAGRAN-II HYDROPOWER PROJECT :AUGUST 2016 May 5, 2017 SPONSOR: Power Development Organization (PDO) Azad Jammu & Kashmir TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................. i-xxvii CHAPTER 1 “INTRODUCTION” ........................................................................................... 1 1.1 What is the Project? ............................................................................................. 2 1.2 Project Proponent ................................................................................................ 3 1.3 Hydropower Potential of AJ&K .......................................................................... 3 1.4 Hydropower Development in AJ&K .................................................................. 4 1.5 Justification of the proposed project ................................................................ 4 1.6 Why Environmental Impact Assessment for J2HPP? ........................................ 5 1.7 Scope of EIA ......................................................................................................... 5 1.8 Organization of the Report ................................................................................. 5 1.9 Who will implement the Project? ....................................................................... 6 1.10 Is there an opportunity to comment on the Project? ..................................... 6 CHAPTER 2 “ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT - LEGAL REQUIREMENT” ......................... -
Site Office Ratti Gali Opposite Usmania Masjid Murree, Nathia Gali Road 0301 8593311 UAN:111-111-106
0301 8593311 UAN:111-111-106 Site Office Ratti Gali Opposite Usmania Masjid Murree, Nathia Gali Road DAM Address Come home to the fine embodiment of comfort and style, affordably priced to help you make your dream home a reality. Iman Heights invites you to experience the perfect balance of a residential community that meets your needs and budget, with the promise of a high quality lifestyle that you've always aspired for. Location & Surrounding Usmania Masjid Murree Nathia Gali Road Murree & the Galiyat The Murree Hills and the Gallies, 55 km from Islamabad, at an altitude of 8,200 ft. are the most popular summer resorts in Pakistan. Murree, known as the Queen of IMAN HEIGHTS Hills, is the most developed of these hill stations and has cool climate in summer and crispy cold in winter. Beyond Murree, the hill resorts of Ayubia, Khaira Gali, Bhurban, Patriata, Donga Gali and Nathia Gali offer cool respite from the torrid heat of plains. It offers a breathtaking view of high forested ridges and deep intersecting valleys with terraced slopes. In Patriata the Gondola cable cars, first of its kind in Pakistan, give an all round panoramic view of the valley. Mall Road Murree Murree's Mall Road is famous small stretch of road having number of shops and restaurant. It's popular among tourist around the country and all over the world. Mall Road is the busiest part of Murree where visitors love walking while doing shopping and buying from handicrafts to dry fruits and from shawls to shoes. Patriata Chair Lift Patriata is a great created mountain resort having tall trees with beautiful green hills. -
Result Gazette
BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE & SECONDARY EDUCATION ABBOTTABAD Result Gazette SSC Supplementary Examination 2019 Result.pk Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Abbottabad Khyber Pakhtunkhwa BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE & SECONDARY EDUCATION ABBOTTABAD PROCLAMATION / INTRODUCTION 1. The Supplementary Examination of Secondary School Certificate was held in Aug/Sep 2019 and the Result Gazette is being announced today on 07 November 2019. 2. This result is issued, errors and omissions accepted as a notice only. An entry appearing in it does not in itself confer any right or privilege independently to the grant of a certificate which will be issued under the regulation in due course of time. 3. The result of the regular candidates who have appeared from recognized institutions has been sent to the Principals of the institutions concerned. 4. Private Candidates can collect their DMC’s from the respective centers wherefrom they have appeared. 5. The disciplinary Committee has decided all the UFM Cases and the result of the candidates have been declared against their Roll Numbers. Moreover appeals can be lodged against the decision of the Disciplinary Committee to the Chairman within 15 days after the declaration of the result by depositing Rs. 1000/- in the ABL Branch under the jurisdiction of BISE, Abbottabad. 6. A candidate who is not satisfied with his result, may avail the facility of re-totaling in any/all papers within 15 days after the declaration of result by depositing of Rs. 600/- per paper in the ABL Branch under the jurisdiction of BISE, Abbottabad. 7. Candidates of Class of 10th who have to reappear in one or more papers/subjects are required to clear the papers/subjects in three consecutive attempts, i.e. -
Impact of Transport Network Changes on Tourism in Protected Areas: a Case Study of Ayubia National Park, Pakistan
Journal of Transportation Technologies, 2020, 10, 325-350 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jtts ISSN Online: 2160-0481 ISSN Print: 2160-0473 Impact of Transport Network Changes on Tourism in Protected Areas: A Case Study of Ayubia National Park, Pakistan Muhammad Shaker*, Muhammad Adnan, Elke Hermans, Ansar Yasar, Geert Wets UHasselt - Universiteit Hasselt, Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Diepenbeek, Belgium How to cite this paper: Shaker, M., Ad- Abstract nan, M., Hermans, E., Yasar, A. and Wets, G. (2020) Impact of Transport Network The inflow caused by tourists in peak seasons exerts an uncontrollable pres- Changes on Tourism in Protected Areas: A sure on the existing infrastructure. The Ayubia National Park in Pakistan Case Study of Ayubia National Park, Pa- faces traffic delays and capacity restraints on the connecting roads in peak kistan. Journal of Transportation Technol- ogies, 10, 325-350. season. The study focuses on the formulation of critical strategies by deploy- https://doi.org/10.4236/jtts.2020.104021 ing amendments in the transport network. The methodology contains three parts: 1) a questionnaire was designed to inquire about several variables from Received: August 29, 2020 Accepted: September 25, 2020 the visitors; 2) the second part was traffic count data collection and analysis. Published: September 28, 2020 Based on the response collected, the impact of multiple strategies on the net- work was analyzed using TransCad; 3) in the third part, the results obtained Copyright © 2020 by author(s) and were shared with experts to gain their valuable opinions. It was observed that Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative the time of the day based access restriction to heavy vehicles could lead to Commons Attribution International dropping the Volume to capacity ratio from 1.7 to 1.2.