Climate change modeling for local adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region / edited by Armando Lamadrid, Ilan Kelman.
Series: Community, environment and disaster risk management ; v. 11. | Community, environment and disaster risk management ; v. 11.Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2012Description: xviii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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Includes bibliographical references.
ch. 1 Climate Change Modeling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas / 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 / Mohammad Waheed Ibrahimzada
ch. 4 Technocratic Approaches and Community Contexts: Viewpoints of those Most at Risk from Environmental Disasters in Mountain Areas, Northern Pakistan / Kenneth Hewitt
ch. 5 Does Climate Modeling Help When Studying Adaptation to Environmental Changes? The Case of Ladakh, India / Krishnan Nair
ch. 6 Tibetan Nomads Facing an Uncertain Future: Impacts of Climate Change on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau / Marius Warg Noess
ch. 7 Floods, Landslides, and Adapting to Climate Change in Nepal: What Role for Climate Change Models? / Michel Jaboyedoff
Contents note continued: ch. 8 Bhutan: Modeling and Adaptation in the Eastern Himalayas / 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.
This publication presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modelling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region. It addresses the implied but largely uncritiqued relationships between scientific modelling knowledge and local responses, as well as perspectives on modelling and adaptation.
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