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Climate change adaptation, risk management and sustainable practices in the Himalaya / Sanjeev Sharma, Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal, Pritam Chand, Pardeep Singh, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Risk management--Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Sustainable development--Himalaya Mountains Region.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 421 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer, [2023]
- Contents:
- 1-Introduction: Climate Change, adaptation and risk management for the mountain sustainability
- 2-Dynamics of demographic, socio-cultural, economic and ecological aspects
- 3-Indigenous knowledge system and traditional sustainable management practices in the Himalayan region
- 4-Anthropogenic intervention, globalized economic development impacts and trans border political issues in the Himalaya
- 5-Urbanization, migration and assessment of the carrying capacity of Himalayan mountain ecosystem
- 6-Environmental degradation and ecological instability: Issues, challenges and way forwarded in the Himalaya
- 7-Climate change, natural hazards and dynamics of landscape changes
- 8-Socio-economic, livelihood and ecological transformation in the Himalayan region
- 9-Human-animal conflicts and wildlife management in the Himalaya
- 10-Climate Change in glacial, periglacial and paraglacial regions of the Himalaya
- 11-Climate induced and geophysical disasters, and risk reduction management in mountains regions
- 12-Available field-based, geophysical and geospatial tools and techniques, their applied practice, strengths, and limitations to study Mountain environment
- 13-Millennium to centennial to contemporary period climate trends and associated climatic variability over the mountain areas of Himalaya
- 14-Regional variation of climatic changes and associated environmental modifications
- 15-Mountain policy, law, governance and role of Institutional and organization for sustaining Himalayan mountain ecosystem
- 16-Interface of technology-science-policy-society and environmental sustainability in the Himalaya
- 17-Integrated ecological restoration, upstream-downstream integration and sustainable development in the Himalaya
- 18-Integrated planning for mountain sustainability and sustainable development: new challenges, innovative approaches and way forward
- 19-Climate change coping strategies and climate smart communities adaptation in the Mountain ecosystem
- 20-Environmental Governance for Environmental Sustainability of Mountainous regions.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Climate change adaptation, risk management and sustainable practices in the Himalaya.
- ISBN:
- 9783031246593
- 3031246594
- Publisher Number:
- 99993492112
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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