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Experience for Future Good Practice and Policy of Combined Carbon Management and Livelihood in HKH Region

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Carbon Management for Promoting Local Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region

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How can we improve carbon management at the field and household level? This is the key question to carry out implementation of climate control. Although traditional knowledge is important in guiding this practice, the modeling technique could be used to improve the traditional approach. In this chapter, we summarize experience of low carbon emission practices and cases of compensation in HKH areas to improve livelihood. The results, in some cases, could be recommended throughout the HKH by training and demonstration.

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  1. School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

    Zhanhuan Shang

  2. Desert Animal Adaptations and Husbandry, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    A. Allan Degen

  3. Bioversity International, Lalitpur, Nepal

    Devendra Gauchan

  4. Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing, China

    Victor R. Squires

  5. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Victor R. Squires

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Shang, Z., Degen, A.A., Gauchan, D., Squires, V.R. (2020). Experience for Future Good Practice and Policy of Combined Carbon Management and Livelihood in HKH Region. In: Shang, Z., Degen, A., Rafiq, M., Squires, V. (eds) Carbon Management for Promoting Local Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20591-1_18

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