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Cold Deserts

Vulnerability, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Gebonden Engels 2026 9783032291189
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This contributed volume offers a variety of chapters that detail the state of cold deserts in the face of a changing climate. Chapters and cases included here address cold desert ecosystems, socio-economic issues in cold deserts and how they could be impacted by global change, and technologies for studying and minimizing climate change impacts. Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

•    Ecology, communities, utilization and management of high-altitude cold deserts’ bio-resources•    Bioengineering, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS)

•     Agro-ecosystems, agroforestry, biodiversity and ecosystem services

•    Energy, communities, desertification and land degradation

•    Vulnerability, climate change adaptation and mitigation

•    Optimizing management strategies for sustainability

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ISBN13:9783032291189
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:323
Uitgever:Springer Nature Switzerland
Hoofdrubriek:, Leiderschap

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Chapter 1: The Cold Desert Ecosystem of Ladakh: Vulnerabilities, Adaptations And Pathways Towards Sustainable Development.- Chapter 2: Human Ecology, Vulnerability And Adaptation To Climate Change In Cold Desert Landscape of Johar Valley Of Pithoragarh District In Uttarakhand Himalaya.- Chapter 3: Impacts of Climate Change On Agriculture In Indian Cold Deserts - Mitigation And Adaption.- Chapter 4: Climate Change Impacts On Indian Cold Deserts Vegetation And Conservation Implications.- Chapter 5: Plant Life And Adaptations In High Mountainous Regions.- Chapter 6: The Use of Remote Sensing And Geographic Information Systems (GIS) For The Mapping of Cold Deserts’ Bio-Resources.- Chapter 7: Effects of Primary and Secondary Umbels In The Germination Behaviour of Heraclium candicans Wall. ex. DC. and Selinum tenuifolium Wall ex C.B. Clarke, The High Altitude Umbellifers.- Chapter 8: Sustaining Livelihoods And Mitigating Climate Change Impacts Through Cold Desert Agroforestry Systems In The Lahaul Valley of North Western Himalaya, India.- Chapter 9: Community-Led Forestry And Landscape Restoration For Climate Change Mitigation And Adaption In Cold Desert, Northwestern Himalaya, India.- Chapter 10: Agroforestry For Land Management, Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation In Cold Desert Ecosystems.- Chapter 11: Diversity, Traditional Knowledge And Vulnerability of Medicinal Plants To Climate Change In Cold Desert Areas Of Indian Himalaya.- Chapter 12: Ethnobotany And Conservation Challenges In The Cold Desert Ecosystems of Uttarakhand, India.- Chapter 13: Biogeochemical Dynamics of Ladakh's High-Altitude Permafrost.- Chapter 14: Hydrology And Water Governance In Cold Deserts: Glacial Dynamics, Resource Management And Natural Disaster Resilience.- Chapter 15: Transformation In Pastoral Practices And Changing Climate In Cold Desert Areas of India.- Chapter 16: Building Psychological Resilience For Sustainable Adaptation In Cold Desert Regions.

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