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Book Synopsis Karakorum Himalaya by : Nigel J. R. Allan
Download or read book Karakorum Himalaya written by Nigel J. R. Allan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is intended to bring to the reader's attention the rich literature that exists on the Karakorum Himalaya and adjacent territory, an area that has been the "Crossroads of Asia" throughout history. The compiler, a professor of geography at UC Davis and a research affiliate of the Center for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, has published on agriculture, ethnic minorities, refugees, the environment, and political economy of the Himalayan region.
Author :Geological Society of London Publisher :Geological Society of London ISBN 13 :9781862390614 Total Pages :508 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (96 download)
Book Synopsis Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis and the Western Himalaya by : Geological Society of London
Download or read book Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis and the Western Himalaya written by Geological Society of London and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2000 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography on the Hydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram Region by : Gordon James Young
Download or read book Bibliography on the Hydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram Region written by Gordon James Young and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 399 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.
Download or read book Scientitic Reports written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geology of the Upper Shaksgam Valley by : Ardito Desio
Download or read book Geology of the Upper Shaksgam Valley written by Ardito Desio and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WESTERN HIMALAYA by : V. L. Chopra
Download or read book CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WESTERN HIMALAYA written by V. L. Chopra and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its thirteen chapters, this book deals with biophysical, biological, hydrological, meteorological and socio-economic aspects of western Himalayan region of India. It emphasizes on the need for strengthening institutional and research capacities that are critical to delivering meaningful and sustainable outcomes & impacts in return for the investments made. It also makes recommendations for the policy, planning and administrative interventions & reforms necessary for efficient and equitable delivery of benefits to the intended beneficiaries and for conservation of the valuable natural resources of the region. Each chapter has been prepared by a recognized expert in the identified area and the treatment bears the required mark of quality & authenticity.
Book Synopsis Dynamics of Climate Change and Water Resources of Northwestern Himalaya by : Rajesh Joshi
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 204 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.
Book Synopsis Space Informatics for Sustainable Development by : S. Murai
Download or read book Space Informatics for Sustainable Development written by S. Murai and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text deals with the subject of remote sensing, and the use of technology to aid environmental maintenance. Topics covered include a microcomputer based grassland local administration support system, and the monitoring of Himalayan cryosphere using satellite imagery.
Book Synopsis Tectonic Controls and Signatures in Sedimentary Successions by : Lynne E. Frostick
Download or read book Tectonic Controls and Signatures in Sedimentary Successions written by Lynne E. Frostick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stratigraphers and sedimentologists who are presently describing and interpreting the infill of sedimentary basins are generally agreed that it is difficult to disentangle the signatures of tectonic processes from those of climate and eustatic sea level change in the resultant rock succession. Until better criteria are developed to distinguish between the roles played by the major variables, it is still most useful to document and interpret basin-fill architectures where we know, from independent evidence, that one of the main controls is likely to have been a major contributor. This book contains a collection of papers describing situations where the tectonic setting is fairly well established, and it can be assumed that at least the tectonic factor has contributed to the resultant signatures.
Book Synopsis Himalayan Perceptions by : Jack Ives
Download or read book Himalayan Perceptions written by Jack Ives and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constantly being promoted by the news media. Himalayan Perceptions identifies the confusion of misunderstanding, vested interests, changing perceptions, and institutional unwillingness to base development policy on sound scientific knowledge. It analyzes the large amount of new research published since 1989 and totally refutes the entire construct. It examines recent social and economic developments in the region and identifies warfare, guerrilla activities, and widespread oppression of poor ethnic minorities as the primary cause for the instability that pervades the entire region. It is argued that the development controversy is further confounded by exaggerated reporting, even falsification, by news media, environmental publications, and agency reports alike.
Download or read book Karakorum written by Shirō Shirahata and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1990 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Himalayan Perceptions: Environmental Change and the Well-being of Mountain Peoples [ENHANCED] (Hardcover) by : Jack D. Ives
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:
Book Synopsis Himalaya to the Sea by : John F. Shroder Jr.
Download or read book Himalaya to the Sea written by John F. Shroder Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the evolution of landforms in the Western Himalaya, providing an essential guide for predictive, protective and remedial measures to mitigate the natural hazards which plague the region and constrain development.
Book Synopsis High Mountain Pastoralism in Northern Pakistan by : Eckart Ehlers
Download or read book High Mountain Pastoralism in Northern Pakistan written by Eckart Ehlers and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The strength of the book lies in this differentiated analysis which is based on extensive empirical research. Several chapters challenge conventional modernization theories, and the authors' intimate connection to their data makes for an unusually stimulating and pleasurable read. The reader gains a vivid picture of the variability, the diversity and the flexibility of how people adapt to social and political developments." Erdkunde gibt "einen hervorragenden kulturgeographischen Uberblick uber die gegenwartige Situation und speziell den Wandel in den pastoralen und agropastoralen Bevolkerungen der verschiedenen Talschaften im nordlichen Pakistan. Es sollte in keiner geographischen und ethnologischen Bibliothek fehlen." Anthropos "The studies in this well produced volume provide the reader with some very valuable information on the transformations that are taking place in this part of High Asia and Pakistan. Although each deals with micro-regional specificities, taken together, they enable the reader to grasp and compare the similarities and differences between these regions. [a] High Mountain Pastoralism is a major contribution to the field of studies on high altitude societies, and is a must for all those interested not only in Asia, but also in the Andes and other comparable environments." Internationales Asienforum Aus dem Inhalt: Eckart Ehlers / Hermann Kreutzmann: High mountain ecology and economy: potential and constraints Georg Stober / Hiltrud Herbers: Animal husbandry in domestic economies: organization, legal aspects and present changes of mixed mountain agriculture in Yasin Reinhard Fischer: Coming down from the mountain pastures: decline of high pasturing and changing patterns of pastoralism in Punial Eckart Ehlers: Pastoralism in the Bagrot: Spatial organization and economic diversity Hermann Kreutzmann: Livestock economy in Hunza: societal transformation and pastoral practices Matthias Schmidt: Pastoral systems in Shigar/Baltistan: communal herding management and pasturage rights Jurgen Clemens / Marcus Nusser: Pastoral management strategies in transition: indicators from the Nanga Parbat region (NW-Himalaya) Hilturd Herbers: Why are mountain farmers vegetarians? Nutritional and non-nutritional dimensions of animal husbandry in High Asia.
Book Synopsis Ethnobiology of Mountain Communities in Asia by : Arshad Mehmood Abbasi
Download or read book Ethnobiology of Mountain Communities in Asia written by Arshad Mehmood Abbasi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for human population, particularly in the rural areas and mountain regions across the globe. Asia is home to the world's highest mountain regions including the Himalayas, Karakorum and Hindukush. These regions are renowned around the globe because of their unique beauty, climate, and biocultural diversity. Because of geoclimatic conditions, the mountains of Asia are medicinal and food plant diversity hot spots. The indigenous communities residing in the valleys of these mountains have their own culture and traditions, and have a long history of interaction with the surrounding plant diversity. Local inhabitants of these mountains areas possess significant traditional knowledge of plant species used as food, medicine, and for cultural purposes. So far, many workers have reported traditional uses of plant species from different regions of Asia including some mountain areas; however, there is not one inclusive document on the ethnobotany of mountains in Asia. This book provides a comprehensive overview on ethno-ecological knowledge and cross cultural variation in the application of plant species among various communities residing in the mountains of Asia; cross cultural variation in traditional uses of plant species by the mountain communities; high value medicinal and food plant species; and threats and conservation status of plant species and traditional knowledge. This book should be useful to researchers of biodiversity and conservation, ethnobiologists, ethnoecologists, naturalists, phytochemists, pharmacists, policy makers, and all who have a devotion to nature.
Book Synopsis Mountain Biodiversity by : Ch. Korner
Download or read book Mountain Biodiversity written by Ch. Korner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments. The book was birthed from the first global conference on mountain biodiversity and was a contribution to the International Year of Mountains in 2002. The book examines biological diversity as essential for the integrity of mountain ecosystems and argues that this dependency is likely to increase as environmental climates and social conditions change. This book seeks to examine the biological riches of all major mountain ranges, from around the world and using existing knowledge on mountain biodiversity, examines a broad range of research in diversity, including that of plants, animals, human and bacterial diversity. The book also examines climate change and mountain biodiversity as well as land use and conservation.
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