Implications of fuel and food needs for deforestation : an energy study in a hill village panchayat of Eastern Nepal

ThesisThesis, 1981Thesis, University of Sussex, 1981Argues that the primary cause of deforestation in the surveyed region is the pressure to extend agricultural land into the forest areas in order to avoid food deficit, while cutting trees for fuelwood is merely an exacerbating influence. As a consequence of the decrease of the volume of growing trees the annual increment of wood becomes increasingly insufficient to meet fuelwood consumption