Amna Butt

• M.Phil leading to PhD- Environmental Sciences
• Research Associate at Fatima Jinnah Women University

Policymakers and city planners actively seek to direct urbanization to uphold the quality of life. Urban green gold plays a crucial role in this process as it impacts the wellbeing of local populations and the long-term sustainability of the cities in a multitude of ways. However, it is challenging to factor in the impact of the built environment o...

Ecological processes such as landslide disaster are primarily impacted by both geological and land use activities happening at different spatiotemporal scale. They specifically impact the socioeconomic development in the sub-Himalayan region of Pakistan. Ecological risk assessment and restrictive zonation mapping are therefore prerequisites for mit...

Climate change is currently a dangerous phenomenon that has deleterious economic, social and environmental impacts. Climatic fluctuations directly affect the hydrology of an area, which in turn plays a significant role in economy of any country. In Pakistan, River Indus serves as a major fresh water resource, the flow of this river is fed by glacia...

Ecological reforestation and refurbishment activities in regards to deforestation are enormous environmental concern across globe, particularly in Pakistan, where forest resources are deteriorating at threshold level for last decades. In order to determine the status of forested land, accurate information on Land Use/ Land Cover (LULC) classes is p...

Coastal areas are the biologically active zones of Earth that play a significant role in ecological and socioeconomic welfare of any society. Inopportunely, like most of the Earth's resources they are subjected to a lot of natural as well as anthropogenic pressures that render them less productive and more vulnerable. Consequently, there is a need...

Climate change is currently a dangerous phenomenon that has deleterious economic, social and environmental impacts. Climatic fluctuations directly affect the hydrology of an area, which in turn plays a significant role in economy of any country. In Pakistan, River Indus serves as a major fresh water resource, the flow of this river is fed by glacia...

Establishment of Protected Areas has long history and in recent years their development has accelerated across whole world to cope with the problem of biodiversity loss. Pakistan has also shown serious concern towards sustainable use of biological resources and cultural heritage by establishing legislation, policies and institutions. However implem...

Identification of previously existing traffic accident hotspots is the first step to ensure future road safety. The study focused on providing GIS based geo-statistical surveillance for the road traffic Accidents (RTA) in Rawalpindi for five years (2009-2013) to determine the high risk areas or hotspots. For this purpose, spatial autocorrelation (M...

The distribution of herbaceous plant species and effect of edaphic factors on species distribution was studied to build a correlation between the herbaceous species and environmental parameter through multivariate techniques. Three zones were formed on the basis of forest (Pinus gerardiana) density. Herbaceous vegetation was sampled, identified and...

The current study was intended to explore and document the local medicinal plants that are being utilized by local dwellers of district Bahawalnagar, Punjab, Pakistan. For this reason ethno-medicinal survey was conducted and information was gathered by hakims (herbalists) and local inhabitants through unstructured interview, open ended questionnair...

One of the detailed and useful ways to develop land use classification maps is use of geospatial techniques such as remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS). It vastly improves the selection of areas designated as agricultural, industrial and/or urban sector of a region. In Islamabad city and its surroundings, change in land use has b...

Biosurfactants are surface-active compounds synthesized by a wide array of microorganisms. They are “amphipathic” molecules having both hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains. These are capable of lowering the surface tension and the interfacial tension of the growth medium. Biosurfactants have different chemical structures; lipopeptides, glycolipids,...

Forests play a critical role in the provision of the ecological interconnectedness, and essential ecosystem services. Deforestation is a serious environmental problem throughout the world including Pakistan where a striking depletion of forest reserves has been an ecological concern for quite some time. Remote sensing techniques have been used to m...

Rapid urbanization is leading cause of plant extinction throughout the world as increase in plant use is directly proportional to increase in urbanization. According to the world analysis estimates, the number of threatened plant species throughout the world has reached above 80,000 and is increasing day by day. This is quite an alarming situation...

Medicinal usage of plants is one of the superior characteristic on which mankind is dependent upon since ages. Plants are being used for the treatment of various diseases of humans and animals. The Changa Manga Forest is designated as National Park located in Kasur, District. It consists of vast biological panorama, constituting many plants of the...

Biofilms are microorganism communities that get attached to a surface. It is evident through various research that cells grown in a biofilm express distinct properties from that of planktonic cells. One such property which is of high significance is an increased resistance to antimicrobial/ antibiotic agents. Bacterial biofilms are a cause of chron...

During the past, need of efficient Emergency First Response (EFR) for Rawalpindi, along with all the major cities of Pakistan has increased tremendously. Therefore, there is a need to develop an effective management strategy to improve the first response services. Present study focused on the identification of past and current service locations for...

One of the features of medical geography that has made it so useful in health research is statistical spatial analysis, which enables the quantification and qualification of health events. The main objective of this research was to study the spatial distribution patterns of malaria in Rawalpindi district using spatial statistical techniques to iden...

Evaluation of watersheds and development of a management strategy require accurate measurement of the past and present land cover/land use parameters as changes observed in these parameters determine the hydrological and ecological processes taking place in a watershed. This study applied supervised classification-maximum likelihood algorithm in ER...

Plants which endowed medicinal values are held at the highest rank in folk medicinal systems throughout the world. The locally suggested remedies and the ethno-botanical knowledge for this purpose, whether it’s traditional or modernized, have its roots into the belief in folk medicinal knowledge of the particular region. This study was conducted...

Natural calamities destabilize the financial status of the affected nation/country. It destroys the persisting infrastructure causing the destruction of accommodation, common facilities and the health care system. The 2010 Pakistan floods have killed over 1,700 people and directly destroyed the lives of over 20 million people. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wa...

Changes observed in land cover/use parameters determine the hydrological and ecological processes taking place in a watershed. Hence, the present study was focused on analysis of the change detection in Rawal watershed, Islamabad using satellite data for the years 1992 and 2012 respectively. Land cover change was detected by applying a supervised c...

About half of the world's population is at risk from the vector borne diseases including dengue and malaria. World Health Organization (WHO) has ranked Dengue fever as the most important mosquito borne viral disease in the world. The main objective of this research work is to study the spatial distribution patterns of dengue disease in Rawalpindi u...