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  title info:
    title: Environmental Change in the Himalayan Region
    sub title: Twelve Case Studies
  name:
    name part: Saikia, Anup.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Thapa, Pankaj.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 232 p. 86 illus., 77 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The book focuses on environment and conservation issues pertaining to the Himalayas, spanning Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar. Environmental degradation, changes in snow cover and glaciers in India-Bhutan, threats to protected areas, and biodiversity in this ecologically fragile region are assessed in twelve distinct, regional case studies.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change and its impacts on Bhutan -- 3. Glaciers as indicators of changing climate in Himalaya -- 4. Land degradation in the Khyber mountains, Pakistan -- 5. Biodiversity Conservation in a Himalayan fringe -- 6. Spreading urban tentacles in the Scotland of the East -- 7. Blowing hot, blowing cold: The urban heat island effect in Srinagar -- 8. Protected areas in Bhutan -- 9. Livelihood Strategies among Agriculture Dependent Communities of Mozoram, Eastern Himalaya -- 10. Climate change and food security in the Himalaya.
  note: edited by Anup Saikia, Pankaj Thapa.
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geography
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Conservation biology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Geography
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Conservation Biology/Ecology
  classification: QH75-77
  classification: 333.72
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030033620
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03362-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 190219
    record change date: 20191021232408.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-03362-0