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The book Climate Change and Himalaya- Natural hazards and mountain resources presents the resources of Himalaya along with the potential natural hazards. It consists twenty two chapters from researchers working in different institutions with multi disciplinary approach. More than seven hundred glaciers were monitored and discussed in one of the chapter of this book. This book will be highly useful to researchers, policy makers, students and is an essential document to libraries of universities, colleges, research institutions and personnel collections.

Editors

J. Sundaresan Pankaj

Gupta K. M. Santosh Ram Boojh Director and UNESCO Representative to

Bhutan, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka UNESCO Office in New Delhi.

1 Spatial distribution of glacier mass balance using remote sensing data in the Himalayan Region — S. K. Singh, I. M. Bahuguna, B. P. Rathore and Ajai
2 Does the Himalayan glacier study mean for climate change? — Manohar Arora, Rakesh Kumar, Naresh Kumar & Jatin Malhotra
3 Estimating glacier changes in the Ravi basin (1972-2006) through remote sensing techniques – Shruti Dutta, A. L. Ramanathan & Anurag Linda
4 Dissolved ion chemistry of Bara Shigri glacier meltwater, western Himalaya, India – Virendra Bahadur Singh, A. L. Ramanathan, Jose George Pottakkal, Naveen Kumar & Parmanand Sharma
5 A statistical analysis to study the effect of solar activity on Gangotri Glacier: – Madhavi Jain, Vasant G. Havanagi & Pankaj Gupta
6 Tilting of the vegetation in the ablation zone may be potential indicators of climatic and glacial deviation: A case study – M. P. S. Bisht, V. Rana, Suman Singh & C. S. Rana
7 Climate change and attendant landslide hazards in the Northwest Himalayas – V. K. Sharma
8 Landslides and cloudburst in Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) during June 2013 — Historical perspectives and remedial measures – Pankaj Gupta & J. Sundaresan
9 Climatic change and increasing geo-hydrological hazards – Kishor Kumar, Anil Kathait, Nitesh Goyal, Indervir S Negi & S. Gangopadhya
10 Landslides and its impact on society –A case study of Narayanbagar landslide – Pankaj Gupta, Neelam J. Gupta & J. Sundaresan
11 Developmental study of two species of a homosporous climbing fern, Lygodium: – Ruchi Srivastav, & P. L. Uniyal
12 Non food oilseed plant as an alternative resource for biofuel production – S.P. Saikia, S. Mapelli, P. Pecchia, K. D. Mudoi & A. Gogoi
13 Climate change and hill agriculture - A study of Uttarakhand State of Indian Himalaya – M. C. Sati & Prashant Kumar
14 Analysis of long term climate variability and changes in North-Western states of Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) – Rajesh Joshi & Kireet Kumar
15 Arya’s C cycles and climate change natural – Ritesh Arya
16 Climate change and appropriate actions worldwide – Kiran Yadav
17 Climate variability and urbanization-impacts, risk and solutions for Narmada river basin – Divya Sharma
18 Ca 5,000 years record of climate from a sub-tropical lake in Garhwal Himalaya: A clay mineral approach – L. M. Joshi, B. S. Kotlia & O. S. Chauhan
19 Phenotypic plasticity leading to sympatric speciation in populations of Ephedra in Lahaul and Spiti (India) – Prabha Sharma, P. L.Uniyal & Øyvind Hammer
20 Evolving climate resilient livelihoods through integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk mitigation – Indrani Phukan & Shazneen C Gazdar
21 Probabilistic assessment of earthquake recurrence in Northeast India: an appraisal from inverse Gaussian distribution – Sumanta Pasari, Divyesh M. Varade & Onkar Dikshit
22 Pattern of rainfall distribution and trend in Srinagar and Banihal stations of Jammu and Kashmir – S. Sreekesh
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