Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions: Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions - Couverture souple
Livre 1 sur 6: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality
Synopsis
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.
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