Velma I. Grover, Axel Borsdorf, Jürgen Heinz Breuste, Prakash Chandra Tiwari, Flavia Witkowski Frangetto

"This book will be welcomed by environmental and social scientists for its review of strategies for coping with environmental changes in mountain areas. ... Each chapter includes a comprehensive set of references and figures, some of which are also reproduced as color plates in the appendix. Overall, this is a useful contribution. ... Summing up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." -N. Caine, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA for CHOICE, October 2015

• INTRODUCTION. Prelude: Mountains in an Uncertain World. Introduction and Road Map for Impact of Global Changes on High-Mountains. DRIVERS FOR CHANGE and IMPACT OF GLOBAL CHANGES ON MOUNTAINS. Impacts and Risks of Global Change. ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION: STRATEGIES AND MODELS. Global Change and Mountains: Consequences, Responses and Opportunities. Adaptation to Climate Change in Mountain Regions: Global Significance of Marginal Places. Adaptation Frameworks for Climate Change – Eloquent to Himalayan Ecosystems. GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL ISSUES IN MOUNTAINS. Governance and Laws of Mountains. CASE STUDIES. Global Change and Sustainable Mountain Tourism: The Case of Mount Kenya. Managing Ecosystem Services for Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. Future Sustainability Challenges in Hindu Kush-Himalaya: Adaptation Challenges to Global Changes in Hindu Kush-Himalaya. Climate Change and its Impacts on Community Food and Livelihood in Kumaun Himalaya: A Case Study of Dabka Catchment. Land Use/Cover Changes in the Kewer Gadhera Sub-Watershed, Central Himalaya. Hindu Kush, Karakorum, Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau Glaciers: Tipping Point. Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) – Mapping the Hazard of a Threat to High Asia and Beyond. Impact of Socioeconomic Factors and Environmental Changes on Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands. High Tatra – The Challenges of Natural Disaster Recovery and Complex Changes. Local Responses to Global Change: Community Alternatives for "good living" in Latin America. Projected Climate Change and Variability and Their Impact on the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Environmental and Socio-Economic Changes in the Rural Andes: Human Resilience and Adaptation Strategies. Climate Change and the Rocky Mountains. Climate Change Impacts on the North Western Andean (NOA) and Western (Cuyo) Andean Regions of Argentina. Impact of Global Changes on Mountains: Case Study of Brazil.

Velma I. Grover, Axel Borsdorf, Jürgen Heinz Breuste, Prakash Chandra Tiwari, Flavia Witkowski Frangetto

"This book will be welcomed by environmental and social scientists for its review of strategies for coping with environmental changes in mountain areas. ... Each chapter includes a comprehensive set of references and figures, some of which are also reproduced as color plates in the appendix. Overall, this is a useful contribution. ... Summing up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." -N. Caine, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA for CHOICE, October 2015

• INTRODUCTION. Prelude: Mountains in an Uncertain World. Introduction and Road Map for Impact of Global Changes on High-Mountains. DRIVERS FOR CHANGE and IMPACT OF GLOBAL CHANGES ON MOUNTAINS. Impacts and Risks of Global Change. ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION: STRATEGIES AND MODELS. Global Change and Mountains: Consequences, Responses and Opportunities. Adaptation to Climate Change in Mountain Regions: Global Significance of Marginal Places. Adaptation Frameworks for Climate Change – Eloquent to Himalayan Ecosystems. GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL ISSUES IN MOUNTAINS. Governance and Laws of Mountains. CASE STUDIES. Global Change and Sustainable Mountain Tourism: The Case of Mount Kenya. Managing Ecosystem Services for Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. Future Sustainability Challenges in Hindu Kush-Himalaya: Adaptation Challenges to Global Changes in Hindu Kush-Himalaya. Climate Change and its Impacts on Community Food and Livelihood in Kumaun Himalaya: A Case Study of Dabka Catchment. Land Use/Cover Changes in the Kewer Gadhera Sub-Watershed, Central Himalaya. Hindu Kush, Karakorum, Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau Glaciers: Tipping Point. Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) – Mapping the Hazard of a Threat to High Asia and Beyond. Impact of Socioeconomic Factors and Environmental Changes on Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands. High Tatra – The Challenges of Natural Disaster Recovery and Complex Changes. Local Responses to Global Change: Community Alternatives for "good living" in Latin America. Projected Climate Change and Variability and Their Impact on the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Environmental and Socio-Economic Changes in the Rural Andes: Human Resilience and Adaptation Strategies. Climate Change and the Rocky Mountains. Climate Change Impacts on the North Western Andean (NOA) and Western (Cuyo) Andean Regions of Argentina. Impact of Global Changes on Mountains: Case Study of Brazil.

Velma I. Grover, Axel Borsdorf, Jürgen Heinz Breuste, Prakash Chandra Tiwari, Flavia Witkowski Frangetto

"This book will be welcomed by environmental and social scientists for its review of strategies for coping with environmental changes in mountain areas. ... Each chapter includes a comprehensive set of references and figures, some of which are also reproduced as color plates in the appendix. Overall, this is a useful contribution. ... Summing up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." -N. Caine, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA for CHOICE, October 2015

• INTRODUCTION. Prelude: Mountains in an Uncertain World. Introduction and Road Map for Impact of Global Changes on High-Mountains. DRIVERS FOR CHANGE and IMPACT OF GLOBAL CHANGES ON MOUNTAINS. Impacts and Risks of Global Change. ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION: STRATEGIES AND MODELS. Global Change and Mountains: Consequences, Responses and Opportunities. Adaptation to Climate Change in Mountain Regions: Global Significance of Marginal Places. Adaptation Frameworks for Climate Change – Eloquent to Himalayan Ecosystems. GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL ISSUES IN MOUNTAINS. Governance and Laws of Mountains. CASE STUDIES. Global Change and Sustainable Mountain Tourism: The Case of Mount Kenya. Managing Ecosystem Services for Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. Future Sustainability Challenges in Hindu Kush-Himalaya: Adaptation Challenges to Global Changes in Hindu Kush-Himalaya. Climate Change and its Impacts on Community Food and Livelihood in Kumaun Himalaya: A Case Study of Dabka Catchment. Land Use/Cover Changes in the Kewer Gadhera Sub-Watershed, Central Himalaya. Hindu Kush, Karakorum, Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau Glaciers: Tipping Point. Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) – Mapping the Hazard of a Threat to High Asia and Beyond. Impact of Socioeconomic Factors and Environmental Changes on Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands. High Tatra – The Challenges of Natural Disaster Recovery and Complex Changes. Local Responses to Global Change: Community Alternatives for "good living" in Latin America. Projected Climate Change and Variability and Their Impact on the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Environmental and Socio-Economic Changes in the Rural Andes: Human Resilience and Adaptation Strategies. Climate Change and the Rocky Mountains. Climate Change Impacts on the North Western Andean (NOA) and Western (Cuyo) Andean Regions of Argentina. Impact of Global Changes on Mountains: Case Study of Brazil.