| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 421 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)) |
| Contents |
Paraglacial Response to Recent Climate Change in the Upper Ganga Catchment -- Trend of Climatic Components in Sub-Himalayan West Bengal: Evidence from Jalpaiguri District During the Last Century (1901–2000) -- Climate Change Impact on Major River Basins in the Indian Himalayan Region: Risk Assessment and Sustainable Management -- Forestry Policies and Practices to Promote Climate Change Adaptation in the Indian Western Himalayan States -- Climate-Induced and Geophysical Hazards and Risk Reduction Financing in Mountain Regions -- Assessment of Existing Himalayan Glacier Inventories for Glacier Studies: A Case Study from the Ravi Basin of North-Western Himalaya (India) -- Landslide Susceptibility Mapping of Tehri Reservoir Region Using Geospatial Approach -- Socioeconomic, Livelihood, and Ecological Transformation in the Sikkim Himalayan Region -- Socioeconomic Aspect of Disaster Risk in Kashmir: Contextualizing Village Vulnerability in Sindh Basin -- Indigenous Knowledge System and Livelihood Option of Natives of Lahaul and Spiti District, Himachal Pradesh -- Impacts of Climate Change on Plants with Special Reference to the Himalayan Region -- Promotion, Utilization, and Commercial Cultivation of Local Spices with Special Reference to Eryngo (Eryngium foetidum L.) as a Measure for Livelihood Improvement Towards Achieving the Goal of Sustainable Development in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot: A Case Study From Manipur, North-East India -- Seasonal Variation of Ecosystem Fluxes of a Himalayan Banj-Oak-Dominated Vegetation -- Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Western Himalaya: A Systematic Review of Research and Conservation Interventions Implemented Over Three Decades -- Groundwater Potential Assessment Using an Integrated AHP-Driven Geospatial Techniques in the High-Altitude Springs of Northwestern Himalaya, India -- Climate-Induced and Geophysical Disasters and Risk Reduction Management in Mountains Regions -- Modelling of Reference Crop Evapotranspiration in Humid-Wet Tropical Region of India -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Himalaya Mountains Region
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Climatic changes -- Risk management -- Himalaya Mountains Region
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Sustainable development -- Himalaya Mountains Region
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Climatic changes
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Climatic changes -- Risk management
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Sustainable development
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Himalaya Mountains Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sharma, Sanjeev (Assistant professor in environmental sciences), editor.
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Kuniyal, Jagdish C., editor.
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Chand, Pritam, editor
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Singh, Pardeep, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031246593 |
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3031246594 |
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