Climate Change in the Himalayas

• Main Authors: Pant, G. B. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pradeep Kumar, P. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Revadekar, Jayashree V. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Singh, Narendra (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Climate change.; Environmental geography.; Meteorology.; Hydrology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Climate Change.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Environmental Geography.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

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 climat...