Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions : Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions /: Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Raghubir Chand, Walter Leimgruber.
• Other Names: Chand, Raghubir; Leimgruber, Walter
• Contents: Introduction -- Raghubir Chand and Walter Leimgruber -- Part 1. Development Potential of Mountain Regions and Globalization -- Chapter 1. Mountain Regions: A Global Common Good? -- Bernard Debarbieux and Martin F. Price -- Chapter 2. Going Global: Livelihoods and Globalisation in the Niti Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, India -- Keith Bosak and Sunil Kainthola -- Chapter 3. Globalisation and the Indian Himalayan States: Mitigating or Accentuating Marginalisation? -- T.S. Papola. Chapter 4. The Impacts of Marginalization and Globalization in the Czech-German-Austrian Mountain Borderland in the Former Iron Curtain Area -- Alena Matuskova and Magdalena Bastova -- Chapter 5. The Himalayas as the Providers of Essential Ecosystem Services: Opportunities and Challenges -- Andreas Schild -- Chapter 6. Hydropower Potential, Marginality and Sustainable Development. Examples from Tyrol/Austria and Aisén/Chile -- Axel Borsdorf. -- Chapter 7. Himalaya: Highest, Holy and Hijacked -- Shekhar Pathak -- Chapter 8. Highlands Developments in Malaysia -- Jamalunlaili Abdullah -- Chapter 9. The Arctic World in the Twenty-first Century: The Impact of Globalization on Demarginalization -- Donald F. Lynch -- Chapter 10. Opening the Door of Tibet -- R.S Tolia. Part 2. Climate Change, Mountain Ecology and Adaptation in the Himalayas -- Chapter 11. Impact of Global Warming on Climate Change Regarding Water Supply in the Darjeeling Hills of the Eastern Himalaya and Change in Mountain Ecology -- A. Basumajumdar -- Chapter 12. Ambient Air Quality Status and its Sources in Urban and Semi-urban Locations of Himachal Pradesh, India -- Harinder Kumar Thakur and Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal -- Chapter 13. The Impact of Climate Change on the Shifting of the Vegetation Line in the Indian Himalaya: A Case Study from the Kutiyangti Watershed -- J.S. Rawat, M. Kumar, Vivek Viswas, V.S. Rawat and N. Gahlot -- Chapter 14. Leguminous Plants of the Kumaun Himalaya: Diversity, Distribution, threats and Management -- Kiran Bargali -- Chapter 15. Vulnerability of Highland Marginal Communities to Climate Induced Change and Practical Adaptive Capacity in the Sikkim Himalaya, India -- Manoranjan Mishra, Vimal Khawas, Amrita Singh, Kausila Timsina, Karma Detsen Omgu Bhutia -- Chapter 16. Plant Diversity and Vegetation Composition of Shiwalik Forests along an Altitudinal Gradient in the Kumaun Himalaya, India -- L.S. Lodhiyal, Neelu Lodhiyal and G.C. Pathak.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (XVI, 240 pages, 45 illustrations, 36 illustrations in color)
• Subjects: 300; Social sciences; Climatic changes; Physical geography; Sustainable development; Human geography; Economic development; Environmental policy; Climatic changes; Economic development; Environmental policy; Human geography; Physical geography; Social sciences; Sustainable development; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Social Science -- Regional Studies; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy; Science -- Environmental Science; The environment; Regional geography; Development studies; Central government policies; Sustainability; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319326498; 9783319326481; 3319326481
• Related ISBNs: 331932649X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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