Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions : Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions /: Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions. (2016)
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- Book
- Title:
- Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions : Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions /: Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions : Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions
- 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.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. … (more)
- 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.
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