The Melting Himalayas: Cascading Effects of Climate Change on Water, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods

By Jian-chu Xu, R. Grumbine, A. Shrestha, M. Eriksson, Xuefei Yang, Yun Wang, A. Wilkes. Conservation Biology, 2009

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology

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A Global Analysis of Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Distributions with Identification of Priority Conservation Areas (2009, background): “In addition, climate change studies suggest that glacial melt in the Himalaya will affect water flow in the Ganges Basin (Xu et al. 2009), thus adding another conservation concern to this priority area.”
Winter and spring warming result in delayed spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau (2010, background): “aKey Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China; bWorld Agroforestry Centre, East-Asia Program, Kunming 650204, China; and cWorld Agroforestry Centre, Gigiri, Nairobi 00100, Kenya Edited by F. Stuart Chapin, University”
Conservation and climate change: Assessing the vulnerability of snow leopard habitat to treeline shift in the Himalaya (2012, positive): “Recent weather station data appear to confirm that temperature is increasing at three times the global average, while precipitation trends are more ambiguous (Christensen et al., 2007; Shrestha and Devkota, 2010; Xu et al., 2009).”
Assessing the Livelihood Vulnerability of Rural Indigenous Households to Climate Changes in Central Nepal, Himalaya (2019, background): “and intensity of weather-related extremes and gradual changes in the average temperature are expected to exacerbate vulnerability and are more prominent in mountainous regions [5,6].”
Widespread Climate Change in the Himalayas and Associated Changes in Local Ecosystems (2012, background): “Kush Himalayan region including the Tibetan plateau [3].”
Policy without politics: technocratic control of climate change adaptation policy making in Nepal (2016, background): “At the same time, studies show that climate upheavals have already impacted social life (Xu et al., 2009).”
Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal (2016, background): “Recent studies indicate that livelihoods are undergoing rapid social-economic and environmental changes (Barnett et al., 2005; Chaudhary et al., 2007; Xu et al., 2009).”