Climate Change in the Himalayas. Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems

Table of Contents

1. An overview of Himalayan forests
2. Assessment and Management of Small Farmer's Climate Risks in the Hills and Plains of Nepal
3. Categorization of farmer's response to climate change between coping and adaptation action
4. Forest Transition and Ecosystem Services in Himalaya
5. Viable land use options to achieve multiple ecosystem services in Eastern Himalayas of India
6. Carbon in Forest ecosystem in difficult terrains on Himalaya
7. Climate-resilient pathways and nature-based solutions to reduce vulnerabilities to Climate change in the Indian Eastern Himalayas
8. REDD+ and Its Implementation in Himalayan Region: Policy Issues
9. Modelling SOC in the Indian Himalayan region: implications for carbon management
10. Leveraging on technology-driven information systems for conservation through informed decisions in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
11. Ecosystem Services of Indian Himalayan Region in a Changing Environment: An overview
12. Raging forest fires in Hindukush Himalaya; socio-environmental dimensions and adaptation mechanisms
13. Carbon stock inventory and biomass production in different land use systems of North-Western Himalaya
14. Vulnerability assessment of forest ecosystems: climate change perspective
15. Synthesis and conclusions

Authors

Amit Kumar School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. Dr Kumar is an Environmentalist cum hydrologist and have worked on wide areas such as sources, fate and transport of carbon in water, air, and soil; GHG emission from reservoirs/ Lakes/ forest etc. Dr Kumar completed his M.Tech & Ph.D from IIT Roorkee under the umbrella of MHRD fellowship, Postdoc research from Hohai University (College of Hydrology and Water Resources) and now working with Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China, as an Associate Professor. During the academic career, Dr Kumar edited 3 books, published more than 90 research/review article of international repute and attended several training and conferences with due fellow of ICAR, ETH, CAS, MOEF, DAAD etc. Apart from the academic life, Dr Kumar is holding honorary Associate editor in Frontier in Environmental Science, Frontier in Microbiology, Applied Water Science (Springer), Advisory board member (Ecological Indicator, Elsevier) and IJRBM (Taylor & Francis)). Till now, Dr. Kumar completed 2 young scientist project, 1 consultancy project and 1 NSFC project is ongoing. Wil De Jong Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan. Dr. Wil De Jong studied forestry at Wageningen Agricultural University, in the Netherlands. He moved to the tropics in 1982 to explore the role of forests in people's lives. He worked in Peru for seven years, spent four years at the New York Botanical Garden's Institute of Economic Botany and then three years as a post-doc in West Kalimantan Indonesia. In 1995 he joined the Center for International Forestry Research where he worked for 10 years before moving to Japan. He was professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka and since 2006 joined Kyoto University's Center for Integrated Area Studies and later CSEAS. His research is on tropical forest governance and policies, smallholder and community forestry, forest and climate change, forest restoration and forest transition. He has undertaken research in Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia, Vietnam, India and China, and has 160 published titles to his name. Since 2021 he was appointed Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University. Munesh Kumar Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Uttarakhand Campus of H.N.B. Garhwal University, Uttarakhand, India. Dr. Munesh Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry & Natural Resources at the Uttarakhand campus of H.N.B. Garhwal University. His research interests include forestry, Himalayan biodiversity, climate change, carbon sequestration, and carbon fluxes. He is a guest editor for Land and Frontiers in Environmental Science. Rajiv Pandey Senior Scientist and Head of the Division of Forestry Statistics, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, India. Dr. Rajiv Pandey is a Senior Scientist and the Head of the Division of Forestry Statistics for the Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, Dehradun. He has held this position for more than 23 years. Over this time, he has dedicated his work for understanding the non-linearity of natural resources to society and impacts of climate change, in addition to teaching research methodology and climate change. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Ecological Indicators and a co-editor for Frontiers in Climate Risk Management.