Invasive alien plants: impacts on development and options for management.

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Prevention and related measures for invasive alien plants in India: policy framework and other initiatives.

This chapter focuses on the history and current status of the regulatory mechanisms and other initiatives in India that relate to preventive and related measures for invasive alien plants. The emphasis is on prevention because this is the most cost-effective means of reducing the threats of these invasive alien species. Naturally, much of this is embedded in or stems from the country's general regulatory framework development and actions. Lastly, the chapter outlines the need for a national strategy on IAS. However, as the national regulatory framework has, by necessity, needed to harmonize with some binding international agreements and conventions that contain provisions on regulation, a brief overview of these is given first.