Carbon management for promoting local livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Zhanhuan Shang, A. Allan Degen, Muhammad Khalid Rafiq, Victor R. Squires, editors.
• Editors: Shang, Zhanhuan; Degen, A. Allan, 1946-; Rafiq, Muhammad Khalid; Squires, Victor R, 1937-
• Contents: Chapter1: Managing Carbon Cycle Linkage to Livelihood in HKH Region.- Chapter2: Climate Change Mitigation and Pastoral Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region: Research Focuses, Opportunities and Challenges.- Chapter3: Tracking of Vegetation Carbon Dynamics from 2001 to 2016 by MODIS GPP in HKH region.- Chapter4: Livelihood and Carbon Management by Indigenous People in Southern Himalayas.- Chapter5: Effects of Different Grassland Management Patterns on Soil Properties on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.- Chapter6: Carbon Management of the Livestock Industry in the HKH Region.- Chapter7: Wetlands as a Carbon Sink: Insight into the Himalayan Region.- Chapter8: Milk and Dung Production by Yaks (Poephagus grunniens): Important Products for the Livelihood of the Herders and for Carbon Recycling on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.- Chapter9: Interactive Mechanism of Service Function of Ecosystems and the Effect of Climate Change to the Service Function of Ecosystem in Alpine Grassland of Tibetan Plateau.- Chapter10: Prospects of Biochar for Carbon Sequestration and Livelihood Improvement in the Tibetan Grasslands.- Chapter11: Optimizing the Alpine Grazing System to Improve Carbon Management and Livelihood for Tibetan Herders.- Chapter12: Promoting Artificial Grasslands to Improve Carbon Sequestration and Livelihood of Herders.- Chapter13: Prospects for REDD+ Financing in Promoting Forest Sustainable Management in HKH.- Chapter14: Designing Water Resource Use for Poverty Reduction in the HKH Region: Institutional and Policy Perspectives.- Chapter15: Indigenous Practice in Agro-pastoralism and Carbon Management from a Gender Perspective: A Case from Nepal.- Chapter16: Adaptation by Herders on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in Response to Climate Change and Policy Reforms: the Implications for Carbon Sequestration and Livelihoods.- Chapter17: Developing Linkages for Carbon Sequestration, Livelihoods and Ecosystem Service Provision in Mountain Landscapes--Challenges and Opportunities in the Himalaya Hindu Kush (HKH) Region.- Chapter18: Experience for Future Good Practice and Policy of Combined Carbon Management and Livelihood in HKH Region.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (347 pages)
• Subjects: 577.27095496; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) -- Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region; Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry); Climatic changes -- Economic aspects; Asia -- Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030205911
• Related ISBNs: 9783030205904
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