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Himalaya on the Threshold of Change

Author : Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030141802
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Himalaya on the Threshold of Change written by Vishwambhar Prasad Sati and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of the changes that have been taking place in the Himalayas. It describes in detail all the aspects of change, both natural and cultural, along with their implications, and suggests policy measures to help mitigate them. The book is divided into two major sections – on natural changes and cultural changes – and 11 chapters: an introduction, six addressing changes that concern natural aspects, and four exploring cultural changes and presenting the book’s conclusions. The content is based on a study conducted using a participatory observation/empirical method. Time series data from secondary sources is also included, helping to analyze the various changes. The findings are presented in the form of color graphs, models, maps, photographs, and tables. The book offers a valuable resource for policymakers, and will prove equally useful for all other stakeholders, e.g. researchers, students and development agents.

The Himalaya, Aspects of Change

Author : J. S. Lall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Himalaya, Aspects of Change written by J. S. Lall and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

Author : Philippus Wester
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319922882
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment written by Philippus Wester and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s well-being. The compiled content is based on the collective knowledge of over 300 leading researchers, experts and policymakers, brought together by the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme (HIMAP) under the coordination of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). This assessment was conducted between 2013 and 2017 as the first of a series of monitoring and assessment reports, under the guidance of the HIMAP Steering Committee: Eklabya Sharma (ICIMOD), Atiq Raman (Bangladesh), Yuba Raj Khatiwada (Nepal), Linxiu Zhang (China), Surendra Pratap Singh (India), Tandong Yao (China) and David Molden (ICIMOD and Chair of the HIMAP SC). This First HKH Assessment Report consists of 16 chapters, which comprehensively assess the current state of knowledge of the HKH region, increase the understanding of various drivers of change and their impacts, address critical data gaps and develop a set of evidence-based and actionable policy solutions and recommendations. These are linked to nine mountain priorities for the mountains and people of the HKH consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals. This book is a must-read for policy makers, academics and students interested in this important region and an essentially important resource for contributors to global assessments such as the IPCC reports.

Climate Change in the Himalayas

Author : G. B. Pant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319616544
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change in the Himalayas written by G. B. Pant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the issues associated with climate change in the Himalayas. The purpose of choosing the Himalayas as a focus is because it is a particularly fragile mountain system, highly sensitive to climate change impacts, and it contains one of the largest human populations affected by climate change. The book provides extensive data and information regarding the climate history of the Himalayas, and the current effects of climate change on Himalayan weather systems, and on human and animal populations in the region. The book begins with an overview of global climate change with discussions of data trends and international initiatives, then segues into a history of climate changes and weather trends in the Himalayas. Weather systems of the Himalayas, both past and current, are analyzed and detailed through climate models, seasonal observations of weather fronts, and overviews of various climate scenarios. The book then discusses climate change impacts and signat ures specific to the Central Himalayan region, where the largest effects of impacts are observed. Readers will discover analysis presented on water resources, meteorological changes, biodiversity, agriculture and human health along with perspectives of management and policy. This book will appeal to researchers studying climate science, climatology, environmental scientists and policymakers.

Dynamics of Climate Change and Water Resources of Northwestern Himalaya

Author : Rajesh Joshi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319137433
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Climate Change and Water Resources of Northwestern Himalaya written by Rajesh Joshi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Himalayan ranges as a source of fresh water supply and a perennial store house of ice, snow and permafrost as well as a vast repository of rich biodiversity, in the light of climate change. Special attention is given to the dynamics of snow and glaciers in the northwestern Himalayas, assessment of climate change patterns, and the consequences of changes and flow regime in order to understand the behaviour of climate change in the northwestern Himalayas. The outcome of melting glaciers are pro-glacial lakes. Their increasing size and potential danger of outbursts requires systematic study, particularly where there is the risk of impact on life and property. Furthermore, the changing trend of the hydrological cycle on a regional or local scale is another area of research which calls for the attention of geoscientists. To date there is a scarcity of reliable data meaning that a concerted effort is still required by all parties.

Climate Change Adaptation, Risk Management and Sustainable Practices in the Himalaya

Author : Sanjeev Sharma
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031246594
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation, Risk Management and Sustainable Practices in the Himalaya written by Sanjeev Sharma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes ecological and socio-economic risks due to climate change in the Himalayan mountain ecosystems, communities, and proposes adaptation strategies and sustainability practices. In order to better understand the potential actions required to improve natural resource conservation and the development of mountain people's livelihoods. The authors discuss the current status of local knowledge system on various environmental aspects of conservation and sustainable use of mountain resources in the Himalaya. The book addresses the institutional capacities, gaps, and priority areas of capacity building to strengthen policies and governance in regard to climate change, landuse management, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable management in the Himalayan region. The aim of this book is to enhance coordination building among policymakers, planners, mountain communities to foster collaboration between different stakeholders by understanding local perceptions of climate change as well as variability issues, and establishing adaptation strategies to cope with these impacts. The chapters incorporate theoretical and applied aspects, and may serve as baseline information for the sustainability of mountain ecosystems through the contribution of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise from the Himalayan region. The book will be useful for students, teachers, and researchers working in different areas pertaining to mountain ecosystems, as well as policymakers and planners working on issues related to the sustainability of the mountain ecosystem.

The Changing Himalayas

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789291151141
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Himalayas written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Climate Change, Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya

Author : RB Singh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319289772
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change, Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya by : RB Singh

Download or read book Climate Change, Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya written by RB Singh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides information essential for anyone interested in climate and environmental change of the Himalayan region, including land and resource managers, environmental planners, conservationists, environmentalists, geographers, climatologists, ecologists, and students. The book is unique in its coverage of the current understanding of the science of climate change in the Himalayan mountain system and of the major impacts on physical systems and ecosystems. The book gives an overview of the physical science basis of climate change and explains drivers and processes of glacier and vegetation dynamics. The book covers relevant aspects of accelerated climate change observed in the Himalayan mountain system, and highlights the regional differentiation of climatic changes and associated environmental modifications. The focus is on climate variability and change, and how physical systems and ecosystems respond to climate change impacts. Consequences include impacts on physical systems such as glacier shrinkage, glacial lake outburst floods, altered hydrological characteristics, permafrost warming and thawing, and mass movements on slopes. Climate change is also a powerful stressor on ecosystems and induces range shifts of plant and animal species and alterations in terms of phenology, biomass, plant cover, plant group dominance and species composition. Thus, ecosystem structure and functioning will be strongly affected. The book has an introductory chapter followed by a section on climate change, a section on impacts on glaciers and hydrology, and a section on vegetation dynamics. Each section has several chapters presenting key concepts, major drivers and key processes of environmental change in the Himalayan region from different perspectives. Climate change impacts in the Himalaya have not been studied in much detail, and respective findings were not presented so far in a comprehensive overview. This book summarizes the current knowledge of interactions between climate change and the dynamics of glaciers, hydrology, and vegetation.

Climate Variability and Change in the Himalayas

Author : Mirjam Macchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789291152261
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Climate Variability and Change in the Himalayas written by Mirjam Macchi and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Changing Himalayas

Author : Mats Eriksson.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789291151110
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Himalayas written by Mats Eriksson. and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Water, Cryosphere, and Climate Change in the Himalayas

Author : Ajay Kumar Taloor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030679316
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (793 download)

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Book Synopsis Water, Cryosphere, and Climate Change in the Himalayas by : Ajay Kumar Taloor

Download or read book Water, Cryosphere, and Climate Change in the Himalayas written by Ajay Kumar Taloor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book summarizes numerous research studies on remote sensing and GIS of natural resource management for the Himalaya region done by Indian Institutions and Universities over the last decade. It gives an overview of hydrometeorological studies on Himalayan water resources and addresses concerns in the development of water resources in this region, which is dealing with an increased pressure in population, industrialization and economic development. While the source of some of the major rivers of India are found in the Himalayas, the glaciers and water bodies in the region are continuously shrinking leading to a depletion of water and deterioration of water quality. This is affecting a population of up to 2.5 billion people. The ecosystems have been under threat due to deforestation, loss of biodiversity, expansion of agriculture and settlement, overexploitation of natural resources, habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, mining, construction of roads and large dams, and unplanned tourism. Spaceborne remote sensing with its ability to provide synoptic and repetitive coverage has emerged as a powerful tool for assessment and monitoring of the Himalayan resources and phenomena. This work serves as a resource to students, researchers, scientists, professionals, and policy makers both in India and on a global level.

Climate Change and Himalaya: Natural Hazards and Mountain Resources

Author : J. Sundaresan
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
ISBN 13 : 938623730X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change and Himalaya: Natural Hazards and Mountain Resources by : J. Sundaresan

Download or read book Climate Change and Himalaya: Natural Hazards and Mountain Resources written by J. Sundaresan and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book “Climate Change and Himalaya- Natural hazards and mountain resources” presents the resources of Himalaya along with the potential natural hazards. It consists twenty two chapters from researchers working in different institutions with multi disciplinary approach. More than seven hundred glaciers were monitored and discussed in one of the chapter of this book. This book will be highly useful to researchers, policy makers, students and is an essential document to libraries of universities, colleges, research institutions and personnel collections.

Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters

Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040090532
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters written by Jelle J.P. Wouters and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. The collective endeavour of the book is expressed in what the editors characterize as the clime studies of the Himalayan multispecies worlds. Synonymous with place embodied with weather patterns and environmental history, clime is understood as both a recipient of and a contributor to climate change over time. Supported by empirical and historical findings, the chapters showcase climate change as clime change that concurrently entails multispecies encounters, multifaceted cultural processes, and ecologically specific environmental changes in the more-than-human worlds of the Himalayas. As the case studies complement, enrich, and converse with natural scientific understandings of Himalayan climate change, this book offers students, academics, and the interested public fresh approaches to the interdisciplinary field of climate studies and policy debates on climate change and sustainable development.

Himalayan Perceptions: Environmental Change and the Well-being of Mountain Peoples [ENHANCED] (Hardcover)

Author : Jack D. Ives
Publisher : Himalayan Journal of Scienc
ISBN 13 : 9994696653
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Himalayan Perceptions: Environmental Change and the Well-being of Mountain Peoples [ENHANCED] (Hardcover) written by Jack D. Ives and published by Himalayan Journal of Scienc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Himalaya

Author : John Keay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632869454
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Himalaya written by John Keay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."--The Washington Post A groundbreaking new look at Himalaya and how climate change is re-casting one of the world's most unique geophysical, historical, environmental, and social regions. More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Himalaya embraces all of Tibet, plus six of the world's eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. It contains around 50,000 glaciers and the most extensive permafrost outside the polar region. 35% of the global population depends on Himalaya's freshwater for crop-irrigation, protein, and, increasingly, hydro-power. Over an area nearly as big as Europe, the population is scattered, often nomadic and always sparse. Many languages are spoken, some are written, and few are related. Religious allegiances are equally diverse. The region is also politically fragmented, its borders belonging to multiple nations with no unity in how to address the risks posed by Himalaya's environment, including a volatile, near-tropical latitude in which temperatures climb from sub-zero at night to 80°F by day. Himalaya has drawn an illustrious succession of admirers, from explorers, surveyors, and sportsmen, to botanists and zoologists, ethnologists and geologists, missionaries and mountaineers. It now sits seismically unstable, as tectonic plates continue to shift and the region remains gridlocked in a global debate surrounding climate change. Himalaya is historian John Keay's striking case for this spectacular but endangered corner of the planet as one if its most essential wonders. Without an other-worldly ethos and respect for its confounding, utterly fascinating features, John argues, Himalaya will soon cease to exist.

Climate Change in the Himalayas

Author : Amit Kumar
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0443194165
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change in the Himalayas written by Amit Kumar and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-08-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues affecting species survival in the rich forests of the Himalayan region. This book characterizes current biodiversity statuses, related ecosystem services, and provides new evidence and solutions for climate change effects on Himalayan animals and plants. Written by regional and international experts on climate change, ecosystems and the Himalayas, this book analyzes current species threats, loss of habitats, and carbon effects. It identifies critical areas requiring special attention and provides workable solutions for protection and ecosystem services. As many plant and animal species continue to be classified as extinct due to climate change, urbanization, and failing ecosystems, analyses and techniques in this book offer resolutions for sustaining current risks and curbing future risks. These can also be applied to other biodiverse, at-risk regions of the world. - Offers nature-based solutions, along with policy and governance measures, such as the application of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement - Provides mitigation and adaptation processes for current and future climate change impacts - Includes a focus on soil sustainability

Natural and Cultural Diversity in the Himalaya

Author : Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031393635
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Natural and Cultural Diversity in the Himalaya written by Vishwambhar Prasad Sati and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Himalaya is the new folded mountain system – the tallest and the youngest in the world. It has a rich diversity – natural and cultural, and diversity in all walks of life. Most of its uniqueness is unknown because of its remoteness. Even, the native people are not aware of them. This book aims to describe the uniqueness of the Central Himalaya in terms of its natural and cultural diversity in detail. Supported by original figures and primary data, this book is empirically tested. It is mainly based on observation and participation and the use of a qualitative approach. Although lots of work has been carried out on the various aspects of the Himalayan region yet, a detailed description of the natural and cultural diversity is yet to be done. This book steps forward to elaborate on some of the unique natural and cultural features of the Central Himalaya, which are worthy to be known about. It contains a total of 10 chapters. Four chapters are devoted to natural diversity and four chapters comprise cultural diversity. Besides, the introduction and conclusions are the first and the last chapters of the book, respectively. The book is the first of its kind and will be useful to all stakeholders – students of all standards, research scholars, academicians, policymakers, native people, tourists, and the general public.