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Data/Information is the essential requirement for planning and development. Climate Change Himalayan ecosystem-indicator, Bio water resources consists basic information and data on glaciers, climate change indicators projections, water resources and biodiversity hot spots ofMountHimalaya. Studies on Climate change and the recession pattern of the Glaciers in the Himalaya of this book concludes that Possibility of the rivers in theHimalayasdrying up as a consequence of rapid degeneration of the glaciers is not borne out by the past history . In this book , study conducted in watershed ofCentral Himalaya, a Decision Support System (DSS) is introduced as interactive tool that understands the problem and explores various courses about water demand and supply management to help decision makers. Himalayan foreland basin derivatives hold records of climatic changes in response to monsoonal circulation. In this study detrital records (11 to 5 Ma) of Ramgangasub-basinofHFBare focused to understand the climate aspect during its deposition. Himalayan biodiversity conservation is discussed in detail in this book. It infers that inHimalayawith the current technological capability, it is very certain that the present species extinction rate will overtake the biodiversity inventorization and characterization. Carbon sequestration potential of the forests ofHimalayais analyzed in this book. This book has a detailed account of the altitudinal shiftiness of butterflies due to increase of air temperature atWest Kamengdistrict of Arunachal Pradesh. Changes in NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) over a period of several years, is examined in this study to assess the changes caused by climate or socioeconomic aspects. This book will be a hand book for researchers, students, environmentalist and to administrators who are associated with multi dimensional decision support system in Mountain ecosystem.

Dr. Shailesh Nayak

Secretary

Government of India Ministry of Earth Sciences

Prithvi Bhavan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003

Session-I: Glaciers

1. Climate change and the recession pattern of the glaciers in the Himalayas — V. K. Raina

2. Identification and hazard assessment of potentially dangerous glacial lakes in Himachal Pradesh — Chander Prakash, Rajeshwar Sing Banshtu, Shanya Sambyal & Ishan Sharma

3. Estimation of snowmelt runoff in Chenab basin, Western Himalayas — Retinder Kour, Nilanchal Patel & A. P. Krishna

Session-II: Climate Change Indicators and Projections

4. Temperature trends at Dehradun in Doon valley of Uttarakhand, India — Omvir Singh, Poonam Arya & Bhagwan Singh Chaudhary

5. Industrial emissions from coal utilization and its effect on climate change— Mridusmita Sarmah, Puja Khare, Prasenjit Saikia & Bimala Prasad Baruah

Session-III: Energy, Transport and Water Resources

6. Impacts of climate change on groundwater resource management and national policy — B. K. Sahu

7. Decision support system for water resource management in mid-elevation watershed of Central Himalaya — Sandeep Soni, Kireet Kumar & Himanshi Sharma

8. Methodology to derive spatiotemporal dynamics of land surface and energy balance parameters using satellite remote sensing — Indrani Choudhury & Ranendu Ghosh

9. Hydrochemistry of melt water emerging from Raktvarn glacier, central Himalaya, India — Virendra Bahadur Singh, A. L. Ramanathan, Jose George Pottakkal, Parmanand Sharma, Anurag Linda, C. Chatterjee, Thupstan Angchuk & Arindan Mandal

10. Application of isotopes of water vapour in climate studies – A world perspective — Gopal Krishan, M. S. Rao & C. P. Kumar

11. Climatic phases and its effect in the derivation and deposition of Himalayan foreland basin — Poonam Jalal Sumit K. Ghosh & Y. P. Sundriyal

Session-IV: Biodiversity and Biodiversity Hot Spots

12. Himalayan biodiversity conservation: A challenge in climate change scenario— P. S. Roy, Arijit Roy & Harish Karnatak

13. Assessment of soil and above ground biomass carbon stock in two forests of Himalayan foot hills of Assam and their carbon sequestration potential — M. Borah, R. J. Das, R. Baruah , P. B. Konwar, S. C. Dutta & H.P. Deka Boruah

14. Biodiversity hotspots of the Himalayan region and climate change — Leonard Sonnenschein

15. Altitudinal shiftiness of butterflies due to increase of air temperature – A case study in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh — Mantu Bhuyan, Jiten Mech, Ridip Choudhary, Kaustubh Rakshit, Amar Jyoti Duarah, Bitopan Sarma, Sangeeta Sharma & Pranab Ram Bhattacharyya

16. An assessment of normalized difference vegetation index in Himalaya by using Geospatial Technology — K. M. Santosh, J. Sundaresan & Pankaj Gupta

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