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"The Himalayas are said to be the youngest mountain ranges in the world. This book studies the well-being of the eastern Himalayan forest-dwellers in terms of their capabilities and functioning. Using Amartya Sen's and Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach, it examines the educational and health opportunities and substantial freedoms afforded to farmers and pastoralists living and working in the Senchal and Singalila Protected Areas of North Bengal, India. It also discusses the challenges and potential of the Forest Rights Act as a well-being delivery mechanism. The book adopts a comparative narrative of socio-ecological information generated from interviews, ecological field methods, remote sensing and participatory rural appraisals to provide insight on human development in conservation contexts. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of conservation biology, development studies, socio-ecological systems studies, political ecology, human development index, ecological economics, environmental sociology, and South Asian studies. It will also be useful to policy-makers and NGOs in the conservation and livelihoods sector"--

Sustainable development. --- Himalaya Mountains Region --- Economic conditions.

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Biographical note: Martina Gugglberger ist assoziierte Professorin am Institut für Neuere Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. Long description: Bergexpeditionen auf Himalaya-Gipfel wurden von reinen Frauenteams erstmals in den 1950er Jahren unternommen. Bergsteigerinnen eröffnete sich damit eine Möglichkeit, in die Männerbastion des Höhenbergsteigens vorzudringen. Martina Gugglberger verwendet diese Frauenexpeditionen als Linse, um Handlungsspielräume, Geschlechterverhältnisse, Netzwerke und biographische Hintergründe von Protagonistinnen im Höhenbergsteigen von 1955 bis 2014 zu untersuchen. Ihr Blick in die Geschichte des »Frauenalpinismus« verdeutlicht die lange Tradition von Ausgrenzung und Abwertung weiblicher Aktivitäten im Bergsport. Gleichzeitig veranschaulicht das Buch entlang politischer, sozialer und ethnischer Aspekte der Frauenexpeditionen, wie sich die realen und symbolischen »Grenzen im Aufstieg« für Bergsteigerinnen ein Stück weit verschoben. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Quote: »Dieses Buch gibt einen guten Einblick in die Welt der Berge und des Höhenbergsteigens aus feministischer Sicht. Lesenswert.« Vero, WeiberDiwan, Winter 21/20

Frauen --- Geschlechtergeschichte --- Expedition --- Sportgeschichte --- Bergsteigen --- Open Access --- Gender History --- Alpinismus --- Nepal --- Himalaya --- Höhenbergsteigen --- Bergsteiger --- Pionierinnen --- Bergsteigerinnen --- Geschlechterideale --- Bergsport --- Achttausender --- Höhenbergsport --- Gender identity --- History. --- Frau. --- Geschlechtergeschichte. --- Expedition. --- Bergsteigen. --- Bergsteiger. --- Achttausender. --- Himalaya Mountains.

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Freshwater Fishes of the Eastern Himalayas provides a guide to describe the internationally accepted methods used in the accurate identification of fishes, morphometry, i.e., body proportions, meristics, i.e., counts of countable characters, viz., scales, fin rays, pores, vertebrae etc., characters of bones wherever necessary, special characters, viz., serrations of fin spines, axillary lobes, lobes, color patterns, etc. All the available taxa of the region are covered, making this an essential reference that provides the original description of genera and species. Diagnostic characters in the book can be easily examined by an unaided eye or by a binocular dissecting microscope with transmitted light.

Freshwater fishes --- Fishes, Fresh-water --- Fresh-water fishes --- Inland fishes --- Inland water fishes --- Fishes --- Freshwater animals --- Himalaya Mountains Region.

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"This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups appears closely correlated with the spread of language families. New findings on ancient DNA have greatly enhanced our understanding of the prehistory and provenance of our biological ancestors. The archaeological study of past material cultures provides yet a third independent window onto the complex prehistory of our species"--

Anthropological linguistics --- Ethnology --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Internal reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Protolanguages --- Historical linguistics --- Himalaya Mountains Region --- Languages. --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Ethnology. --- Language and languages. --- Reconstruction (Linguistics). --- Himalaya Mountains Region.

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- Water resources management should be assessed under climate change conditions, as historic data cannot replicate future climatic conditions. - Climate change impacts on water resources are bound to affect all water uses, i.e., irrigated agriculture, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, and environmental flow (of streams and rivers) and water level (of lakes). - Bottom-up approaches, i.e., the forcing of hydrologic simulation models with climate change models’ outputs, are the most common engineering practices and considered as climate-resilient water management approaches. - Hydrologic simulations forced by climate change scenarios derived from regional climate models (RCMs) can provide accurate assessments of the future water regime at basin scales. - Irrigated agriculture requires special attention as it is the principal water consumer and alterations of both precipitation and temperature patterns will directly affect agriculture yields and incomes. - Integrated water resources management (IWRM) requires multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, with climate change to be an emerging cornerstone in the IWRM concept.

Precipitation --- Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) --- Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) --- Upper Indus Basin (UIB) --- Himalaya --- streamflow --- extreme rainfall --- watershed --- dynamics of saline lakes --- extremely changing points --- extreme weather --- temporal trend --- climate change --- salinization --- water resources management --- drinking water --- debris --- water balance --- climatic change --- dam capacity --- simulation of sediment transport --- Athabasca River --- climate projection --- hydrologic modelling --- peak-flow --- return period --- stationary analysis --- non-stationary analysis --- global --- temperature --- precipitation --- Net Irrigation Water Requirement --- maize --- hydrologic modeling --- reanalysis gridded datasets --- ERA-Interim --- Balkan Peninsula