Climate Change in the Himalayas
Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems
- 1st Edition - August 5, 2023
- Editors: Amit Kumar, Wil De Jong, Munesh Kumar, Rajiv Pandey
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 4 1 5 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 4 1 6 - 0
Climate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues affecting species survival in the rich forests o… Read more
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Request a sales quoteClimate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues affecting species survival in the rich forests of the Himalayan region. This book characterizes current biodiversity statuses, related ecosystem services, and provides new evidence and solutions for climate change effects on Himalayan animals and plants. Written by regional and international experts on climate change, ecosystems and the Himalayas, this book analyzes current species threats, loss of habitats, and carbon effects. It identifies critical areas requiring special attention and provides workable solutions for protection and ecosystem services.
As many plant and animal species continue to be classified as extinct due to climate change, urbanization, and failing ecosystems, analyses and techniques in this book offer resolutions for sustaining current risks and curbing future risks. These can also be applied to other biodiverse, at-risk regions of the world.
- Offers nature-based solutions, along with policy and governance measures, such as the application of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement
- Provides mitigation and adaptation processes for current and future climate change impacts
- Includes a focus on soil sustainability
Researchers and practitioners in biology, environmental studies, conservation studies, and forestry
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- About the editors
- Chapter 1. An overview of the Himalaya forests and their drivers of change
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mountain forests
- 3. Forests of the Himalaya
- 4. Drivers of change of the Himalaya forests
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- Chapter 2. Assessment and management of small Farmer's climate risks in the hills and plains of Nepal
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 3. Results and discussions
- 4. Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Comparing and contrasting characterstics of coping and adpatation response
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methodology
- 3. Results and discussion
- 4. Future directions
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter 4. Forest transition and ecosystem services in Himalaya
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Forest transition and its relevance for the Himalaya
- 3. Materials and methods
- 4. Forest transition and ecosystem services transition in the Himalaya
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Viable land use options to achieve multiple ecosystem services in the Eastern Himalayas of India
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Materials and methods
- 3. Results and discussion
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Species and crown density-specific variability in biomass carbon across Sindh forest landscape in the Western Himalayas
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Materials and methods
- 3. Results
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Climate-resilient pathways and nature-based solutions to reduce vulnerabilities to climate change in the Indian Himalayan Region
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Contributions to resilience pathways through responses to climate change
- 3. Nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction
- 4. Nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. REDD+ and its implementation in the Himalayan region: policy issues
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Development of REDD+, up to Paris Agreement (PA) and beyond
- 3. Issues with REDD+
- 4. Future of VM in REDD+
- 5. Implementation of REDD+ in India
- 6. Option for the Himalayan States to implement REDD+
- 7. Potential for contribution by Himalayan States
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Land degradation evaluation based on SDG indicators in the eastern Himalayan region: A case study from Nagaland state
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Study site
- 3. Materials and methods
- 4. Results and discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Leveraging on technology-driven information systems for conservation through informed decisions in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Role of information systems
- 3. Ecological niche studies
- 4. Monitoring and information dissemination platforms
- 5. Bioinformatics approaches
- 6. Opportunities for research and improvements
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 11. Ecosystem services of the Indian Himalayan Region in a changing environment: an overview
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Present and future impacts of climate change on ecosystem services
- 3. How the valuation of ecosystem services be helpful for IHR conservation?
- 4. Policies promoting and sustaining ecosystem services in IHR
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 12. Changing climatic scenarios: impacts, vulnerabilities, and perception with special reference to the Indian Himalayan region
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Study area
- 3. Impacts of climate change on biodiversity
- 4. Impact of climate change on glaciers/water bodies
- 5. Impact of climate change on agriculture
- 6. Impact of climate change on livelihood
- 7. Vulnerabilities and adaptations to climate change
- 8. Local perception to changing climatic scenarios
- 9. Conclusion and recommendations
- Chapter 13. Carbon stock inventory and biomass production in different land use systems of Northwestern Himalaya
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Biomass and carbon pools
- 3. Agroforestry systems
- 4. Forest ecosystem
- 5. Variation in land use systems
- 6. Future prospects
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 14. Vulnerability assessment of forest ecosystems: Climate change perspective
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Defining vulnerability, resilience, and other linked terminology with reference to climate change
- 3. Vulnerability assessment linked to climate change
- 4. Various methodologies adopted for assessing climate change vulnerability
- 5. Methodological advancements in assessing climate change vulnerability
- 6. Way forward
- 7. Conclusions
- Chapter 15. Synthesis and conclusions
- 1. Summary and synthesis
- Index
- No. of pages: 286
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 5, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443194153
- eBook ISBN: 9780443194160
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Amit Kumar
Dr. Amit Kumar is a Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He obtained his M.Tech and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and conducted his postdoctoral research at Hohai University, China. Dr. Kumar’s research spans the ecological health of aquatic habitats, water quality modeling, and water security practices to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. He has published five books, including Elsevier’s Climate Change in the Himalayas, and is an advisory board member for the Elsevier journal Ecological Indicators.
Affiliations and expertise
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, ChinaWJ
Wil De Jong
Dr. Wil De Jong studied forestry at Wageningen Agricultural University, in the Netherlands. He moved to the tropics in 1982 to explore the role of forests in people’s lives. He worked in Peru for seven years, spent four years at the New York Botanical Garden’s Institute of Economic Botany and then three years as a post-doc in West Kalimantan Indonesia. In 1995 he joined the Center for International Forestry Research where he worked for 10 years before moving to Japan. He was professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka and since 2006 joined Kyoto University’s Center for Integrated Area Studies and later CSEAS. His research is on tropical forest governance and policies, smallholder and community forestry, forest and climate change, forest restoration and forest transition. He has undertaken research in Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia, Vietnam, India and China, and has 160 published titles to his name. Since 2021 he was appointed Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University.
Affiliations and expertise
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, JapanMK
Munesh Kumar
Dr. Munesh Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry & Natural Resources at the Uttarakhand campus of H.N.B. Garhwal University. His research interests include forestry, Himalayan biodiversity, climate change, carbon sequestration, and carbon fluxes. He is a guest editor for Land and Frontiers in Environmental Science.
Affiliations and expertise
H.N.B. Garhwal University, IndiaRP
Rajiv Pandey
Dr. Rajiv Pandey is a Senior Scientist and the Head of the Division of Forestry Statistics for the Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, Dehradun. He has held this position for more than 23 years. Over this time, he has dedicated his work for understanding the non-linearity of natural resources to society and impacts of climate change, in addition to teaching research methodology and climate change. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Ecological Indicators and a co-editor for Frontiers in Climate Risk Management.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist and Head of the Division of Forestry Statistics, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, IndiaRead Climate Change in the Himalayas on ScienceDirect