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Integrated Conservation and Development Program (ICDP) could be a coping strategy to impacts of climate change in mountain regions
Ten kilometers north from Narayanghat in Chitwan district of Nepal, on Narayanghat - Mugling highway, there is a stream called Jugedi Khola. Jugedi Khola originates from lower Mahabharata with a watershed area of 12.2 sq km. Geologically Lower Mahabharata region is fragile and the hill slopes are steep whereas the valley bottoms are good for agriculture. The Jugedi watershed provides home to 190...
Potential impacts of climate change in the Uttarakhand Himalayas
The recently released Fourth Assessment Reports of the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) state that there is now a higher confidence in evidence to show that the Earth has warmed even more since 1,750 because of anthropogenic activities. The IPCC also mentions that over the next century, average surface temperatures are expected to rise between 1-6.3 C depending on various...
Mitigation of climate change in the western Himalayas
Pragya is an Indian NGO based in Delhi. The organization specializes in working in high altitude areas of the Indian Himalayas (above 8,000ft), and is the only NGO to have a presence in every Indian Himalayan state. Pragya is currently implementing a project called Water Access and Wasteland Development in the Western Himalayas, which combines natural resource management strategies and infusion...
Local management of indigenous mountain rice and fodder tree: Short notes on the lowest practice of climate change mitigation

While many residents in the 'global village' are contemplating on "inconvenient" warming and melting ice, there is still a need however to think of "the small, the least and the lowest practices" by mountain people. In the mountainous coast of Lobo and San Juan, about 170km south of Manila, Philippines, mountain farming is characterized by century-old kaingin (slash-and-burns); forest...

Climate change in the Western Ghat Mountains: Impact and adaptation

Conservation International has declared the Western Ghats Mountains as one of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots in the world. The Western Ghats of southwestern India and the highlands of southwestern Sri Lanka are strikingly similar in their geology, climate and evolutionary history. Together, they form one of the most densely populated of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots. This hotspot is...

Uncertainties in climate change impacts versus certainties in winter tourism adaptation strategies
Snow cover plays an important role for the mountain environment, representing a living area for some species, a huge water storage function, etc. While in the past it was seen as an obstacle in the European Alps because farmers could not work their fields or the passes were more difficult to cross, in the 20th century it became an important source of wealth and was even nicknamed “white gold”....
Food security amidst climate change in Nepal
Climate change will hit hardest on the food security in Nepal through various aspects. Number of food deficient population has increased remarkably in the recent decades due to various reasons. Global predictions show slight increase in the food production with respect to estimated climate change but our food production having based on the rain fed depending on the weather pattern, even small and...
Causality of current environmental change in tropical landscapes

Disjunctions in scale, effect, and direction of forcing are characteristic of how global environmental change alters and interacts with landscapes in regards to land cover, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and sustainable land use. Many effects are subtle, indirect, or best characterized as thresholds, wherein change at first modest is followed by abrupt shifts in rate or mode. In the tropics...

Are water resources in the western Himalaya sensitive to global warming?
The world has warmed by 0.74°C over the last century according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. However, this warming has not been globally uniform. The high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere have been disproportionately affected and reconstructions of past temperatures suggest that the late 20th century warming is unprecedented. In addition, all climate...
Es el cambio climático una oportunidad o amenaza en las montañas: una evaluación en los Andes centrales de Perú

Is climate change an opportunity or a threat in the mountains?An evaluation of the Central Andean region of Peru

The various documents prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climatic Changes (IPCC) indicates that for the coming years there will be an increase in temperature of some degrees, a rise between 1,8 to 4º C, as a best estimate. This increase could cause an increase in...

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