Editors:
Constitutes the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, providing an authoritative overview of the region
Assembles the collective knowledge of over 300 leading researchers, practitioners, experts, and policymakers
Combines the current state of knowledge of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region in one volume
Offers Open Access to a set of evidence-based and actionable policy solutions and recommendations and nine mountain priorities consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s well-being. The compiled content is based on the collective knowledge of over 300 leading researchers, experts and policymakers, brought together by the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme (HIMAP) under the coordination of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). This assessment was conducted between 2013 and 2017 as the first of a series of monitoring and assessment reports, under the guidance of the HIMAP Steering Committee: Eklabya Sharma (ICIMOD), Atiq Raman (Bangladesh), Yuba Raj Khatiwada (Nepal), Linxiu Zhang (China), Surendra Pratap Singh (India), Tandong Yao (China) and David Molden (ICIMOD and Chair of the HIMAP SC).
This First HKH Assessment Report consists of 16 chapters, which comprehensively assess the current state of knowledge of the HKH region, increase the understanding of various drivers of change and their impacts, address critical data gaps and develop a set of evidence-based and actionable policy solutions and recommendations. These are linked to nine mountain priorities for the mountains and people of the HKH consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals.
This book is a must-read for policy makers, academics and students interested in this important region and an essentially important resource for contributors to global assessments such as the IPCC reports.
Keywords
- Open Access book on Hindu Kush Himalaya
- Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
- Sustainable Mountain Development
- Environmental Assessment
- HKH Assessment Report
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the HKH
- Energy Needs in Asia
- Water Security, Availability, Use and Governance
- Food Nutrition and Security in Asia
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Increasing Resilience
- Poverty and Vulnerability in Mountain Livelihoods
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Governance, Drivers and Consequences of Migration
- Environmental Governance in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
- Sustainable Mountain Development
- Environmental Geography
- Climate change management
- climate change
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Editors and Affiliations
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International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
Philippus Wester, Arabinda Mishra, Aditi Mukherji, Arun Bhakta Shrestha
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
Book Subtitle: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People
Editors: Philippus Wester, Arabinda Mishra, Aditi Mukherji, Arun Bhakta Shrestha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: ICIMOD, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92287-4Published: 25 January 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95051-8Published: 21 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92288-1Published: 04 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 627
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 176 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Geography, Climate Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Conservation Biology, Sustainability