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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents Preface. I. Agrodiversity management 1. Agrodiversity lessons from the highlands of Northern Thailand/Kanok Rerkasem and Benjavan Rerkasem. 2. Dynamics of rainfed lowland rice varieties in North East Thailand/Shuichi Miyagawa. 3. Changes in agricultural biodiversity implications for sustainable livelihoods in the Himalaya/K.G. Saxena K.S. Rao and R.K. Maikhuri. 4. Prospects of agricultural biotechnology for marginal areas/A.H. Zakri. II. Farm management and livelihoods 5. Multiple cropping systems in uplands of Central Japan/Kazutoshi Hoshikawa. 6. Options for enhancement of livelihoods in marginal upland areas of Java/Junko Goto. 7. Potential and constraints for intensive land use with pond irrigation in North East Thailand/Masuo Ando. III. Forest resource management 8. Local response to government land allocation program the role of NTFPs in marginal mountainous areas in Lao PDR/Shinya Takeda. 9. Management and utilization of forest resources in Korea/Eui Gyeong Kim and Dong Jun Kim. 10. Rehabilitation of mangroves in South East Asia/Ryuichi Tabuchi. IV. Upscaling farmers technology 11. Experiences from supervising a farmer network for sustainable agricultural development in Central Thailand/Prateep Verapattananirund. 12. Employment and income as influenced by adoption of orange cultivation by traditional upland farmers in Nepal/Shigeki Yokoyama and Devendra Gauchan. 13. Technologies for improving quality and efficiency of citrus fruit production in a mountainous area of Japan/Kunihisa Morinaga. 14. Improving indigenous technologies for sustainable land use in northern mountainous areas of Vietnam/Le Quoc Doanh and Ha Dinh Tuan. V. Institutional reforms and empowerment 15. Upland agriculture and forestry research for improving livelihoods in Lao PDR/Bouahom Bounthong John Raintree and Linkhan Douangsavanh. 16. Community participation in forest resource management in Nepal/Keshav L. Maharjan. 17. Off farm employment in relation to small scale livelihoods and natural resource management in China/Linxiu Zhang. 18. Farmer field school farmer life school and farmers club for enriching knowledge and empowering farmers a case study from Cambodia/Yunita T. Winarto. VI. Synthesis 19. Alternative approaches to enhancing small scale livelihoods and natural resource management in marginal areas in monsoon Asia a synthesis/K.G. Saxena Luohui Liang Yasuyuki Kono and Satoru Miyata. Subject Index. Marginal areas face a range of ecological social and economic constraints such as steep slope low soil fertility recurrent droughts/floods and poor access to markets public services and information. These constraints limit adoption of intensive agriculture technologies developed to suit the needs and circumstances in the mainstream areas. A large number of people live in marginal areas and many in extreme poverty. Improving livelihoods in marginal areas is a pressing need but application of conventional development models may not be feasible. Designing and implementing innovative approaches which enhance local livelihoods coupled with conservation and sustainable use of natural resources is a challenge to scientists as well as development practitioners. From October 29 to 30 2003 an international symposium discussed and reviewed alternative approaches to enhancing small scale livelihoods and natural resource management in marginal areas in monsoon Asia this book is an outcome of the papers presented in the symposium. This publication it is hoped will be helpful in gaining the basic information about the present state of natural resource management and livelihoods and in getting insights for further research and development needs in marginal monsoon region of Asia. 178 pp.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2011
ISBN 10: 8121107806 ISBN 13: 9788121107808
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Contents Preface I Climate soil and wild biodiversity 1 Tree rings in understanding long-term climate change in cold desert region of Lahaul and spiti Himachal Pradesh IndiaRam R Yadav 2 Relationship between ENSO phases and wintertime precipitation over Western HimalayasAP Dimiri 3 Characterization and classification of soil resource of cold desert areas in Himachal Pradesh IndiaSP Sharma and PD Sharma 4 Diversity distribution and conservation prioritization of economically important species in Lahaul Valley North-Western Himalaya IndiaSS Samant Ashok Singh Manohar Lal and Pankaj Sharma 5 Conservation and utilization of biodiversity in high altitude cold desert of IndiaCP Kala 6 Rangelands of Eastern Ladakh threatened plant communities and strategies for their conservationGS Rawat BS Adhikari and SK Uniyal 7 Collembola Hexapoda in cold desert region of India-a preliminary reportGP Mandal and HS Mehta 8 Fish and fisheries in cold deserts of Ladakh Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh IndiaIndu Sharma and HS Mehta 9 Fauna of Chandratal lake in cold desert region of IndiaHS Mehta and Sanjeev Kumar 10 Earthworm diversity of Indian cold desertJM Julka and Rahul Paliwal 11 Wild mammals of Pamir conservation and management issuesAS Saidov II Changing land uses driving factors and implications to sustainable livelihoods and conservation 12 Structure and function of agro-ecosystems in cold desert of spiti catchmentK Chandrasekhar KS Rao and KG Saxena 13 Cold desert agro-ecosystrems a case study from Lahaul Valley IndiaSCR Vishvakarma JC Kuniyal YS Rawat and Santi S Oinam 14 Changing livelihoods in cold desert a case study from Niti Valley in Indian HimalayaNehal A Farooquee Nabi Kanta Jha and RK Maikhuri 15 Nomadism in the Indian changthang changes and implications on society and biodiversityYash Veer Bhatnagar and Navinder J Singh 16 Management of grazing lands in Indian cold desert a village level study in spiti valley IndiaR Gawali KG Saxena KS Rao and RK Maikhuri 17 Livelihood and natural resources in Asian cold desert a case study from selected villages in Central Himalaya IdniaSunil Nautiyal RK Maikhuri KS Rao and KG Saxena 18 Changes in indigenous Tibetan knowledge about environment a case study of Jiabi Village Deqin Country Yunnam ChinaLun Yin 19 Primary production under conditions of global change a case study from Annapurana conservation area NepalTor H Aase 20 Desertification in Qinghai-Tibetan PlateauXian Xue Lichao Liu Jian Guo and Bangshuai Han 21 Climate change and Himalayan cold deserts mapping vulnerability and threat to environmental quality and indigenous livelihoodsG Banerji and S Basu 22 Long distance migration of Mongolian gazelles and impacts of an International Railroad on wildlife on MongoliaTY Ito A Tsunekawa B Lhagvasuren B Lhagvasuren B Buuveibaatar S Takatsuki N Miura and A Okada 23 Land degradation livelihoods and vulnerability in Pamir-Alai mountains in Central AsiaNevelina I Pachova Fabrice Renaud and Libor Jansky III Scope of improving livelihoods and conservingrestoring environment 24 Nutrient management strategies for sustainable livelihood in cold arid region of Himachal Pradesh IndiaDK Parmar and RS Jamwal 25 Scope of Seabuckthorn Hippophae Rhamnoides L for sustainable livelihood in cold desert of Ladakh IndiaTsering Stobdan OP Chaurasia Girish Korekar Ashish Yadav and Shashi Bala Singh 26 Apricot Prunus armeniaca L scope for socio-economic development and environmental conservation in cold arid high altitudesAshish Yadav Tsering Stobdan Girish Korekar and Shashi Bala Singh 27 Sustainable low-cost agrotechnologies for cold desert of IndiaShashi Bala Singh 28 Adaptation to climate change through an integrated rangeland ecosystem management strategy in the cold desert of Northwest Tibet ChinaRJ Long ZH Shang LM Ding and XS Guo 29 A new approach to the fight against desertification in Inner MongoliaGaoming Jiang Gang Li Yonggeng Li Meizhen Liu Yu Peng Linghao Li and Xingguo Han 30 Enhancing local li.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2012
ISBN 10: 8121108365 ISBN 13: 9788121108362
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Global change: trends driving factors impacts and challenges. 2. Living with global environmental changes: vulnerability mitigation and adaptation. Subject Index. Mountain ecosystems occupy only about 20% of earth's surface and are home to 10% of the human population. These ecosystems are globally significant for several reasons: (i) they are cosmopolitan in distribution, from the equator to the poles, coastal to continental regions and from the arid to tropical humid areas (ii) they as a result of altitudinal gradients, orographic settings geological histories and isolation imposed by a dissected terrain support higher levels of ecological and socio cultural diversity compared to other terrestrial landscapes (iii) they being the sources of all major river systems across the globe are source water in lowlands supporting several millions of people and provide opportunities of environmentally sound way of electricity production (iv) they remain the storehouse of a range of ecosystem goods and services critical for the global community, (iv) they have immense sacred and cultural values and hence are popular tourists destinations, (v) they are undergoing drastic changes under the influence global environmental changes parallelly with economic globalization and socio-cultural political transformation and iv. cutting across national boundaries they demand regional and international cooperation for meeting the conservation development challenges. (jacket).