Climate change modeling for local adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region
This book presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. Physical systems modeling - such as of climate, weather, water, and soil - can be useful planning tools, and are essential to the forecasts and projecti...
| Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , |
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2012.
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| Σειρά: | Community, environment and disaster risk management ;
v. 11. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- ch. 1. Climate change modeling for local adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas / Armando Lamadrid, Ilan Kelman
- ch. 2. Climate change and its impacts in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas : an introduction / Eklabya Sharma
- ch. 3. Assessing the hydrological impacts of climate change on the Amu Darya River, Afghanistan / Ashutosh Mohanty, Manoranjan Mishra, Devesh Sharma, Mohammad Waheed Ibrahimzada
- ch. 4. Technocratic approaches and community contexts : viewpoints of those most at risk from environmental disasters in mountain areas, Northern Pakistan / Farida Azhar-Hewitt, Kenneth Hewitt
- ch. 5. Does climate modeling help when studying adaptation to environmental changes? : the case of Ladakh, India / Virginie Le Masson, Krishnan Nair
- ch. 6. Tibetan nomads facing an uncertain future : impacts of climate change on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau / Marius Warg Næss
- ch. 7. Floods, landslides, and adapting to climate change in Nepal : what role for climate change models? / Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Jean-Christophe Gaillard, Sundar Sharma, Jérôme Dubois, Michel Jaboyedoff
- ch. 8. Bhutan : modeling and adaptation in the eastern Himalayas / Harsha Meenawat, Benjamin K. Sovacool
- ch. 9. Creative adaptation : Bangladesh's resilience to flooding in a changing climate / Alia Lauren Khan
- ch. 10. Myanmar : assessing freshwater vulnerability in the Irrawaddy and Salween river basins / Aura Salmivaara
- ch. 11. Scientific and social uncertainties in climate change : the Hindu Kush-Himalaya in regional perspective / Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, Karen MacClune.
