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  • Rivers of the Asian Highlands

    From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis

    by Ruth Gamble, Gillian G. Tan, Hongzhang Xu, Sara Beavis, Petra Maurer, Jamie Pittock, John Powers, Robert J. Wasson ...
    Series series Routledge Planetary Spaces Series
    Rivers of the Asian Highlands introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia’s eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputra’s highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu (upper Yangzi), which descends from the Tibetan Plateau’s east through the Hengduan Mountains.This book guides its readers through these two ... Read more

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  • Tigers of the World

    The Science, Politics and Conservation of Panthera tigris

    Edited by Ronald Tilson, Philip J. Nyhus ...
    Series series Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
    Tigers of the World, Second Edition explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two decades later there has been a revolution not only in what is known, but how information about tigers is obtained and disseminated. In the fast ... Read more

    $96.29 USD

  • Biodiversity Conservation, Indigenous Knowledge and practices: A Naga Perspective

    by Martemjen ...
    Conservationist has been contemptuous of Indigenous peoples and their knowledge. As such, all the modern polices, acts and laws in biodiversity conservation intends to follow a “top down” approach, where decisions to be enacted upon the local people, their land, biodiversity, forest etc are done at the top level without the local peoples consent, which ultimately leads to conflict. As such, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Permafrost and Culture

    Global Warming and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation (Study Guide for Environmental Education)

    by Hiroki Takakura, Yoshihiro Iijima, Vanda Ignatieva, Alexander Fedorov, Masanori Goto, Toshikazu Tanaka ...
    Series Book 26 - Center for Northeast Asian Studies Report
    This book is an attempt to understand the impact of Climate Change on the Arctic human societies from the indigenous perspectives, by focusing on the peoples living in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation. Historically, and also today, the livelihood of the Sakha people is closely related to permafrost. Scientific evidence shows that the thawing of the permafrost through ... Read more

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  • Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia

    by Peter D. Clift, Jade d'Alpoim Guedes ...
    The Asian monsoon and associated river systems supply the water that sustains a large portion of humanity, and has enabled Asia to become home to some of the oldest and most productive farming systems on Earth. This book uses climate data and environmental models to provide a detailed review of variations in the Asian monsoon since the mid-Holocene, and its impacts on farming systems and human ... Read more

    $93.49 USD

  • Protected Areas and Indigeneous Communities

    Anthropogenic Dependence & Impact on Biodiversity

    by Azra Musavi ...
    This book deals with protected area-people interface in Bori Wildife Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Reserve located in Satpura range of Central Indian Highlands. These forests are mostly inhabited by Gond, Korku, and Thatia tribes, a small population of agro-pastoral community and other backward classes, which have moved into these forests from adjoining areas in search of pastures for their large ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Walk Up The Hill

    Living with People and Nature

    by Madhav Gadgil ...
    Madhav Gadgil was born in Pune in 1942, just as Salim Ali's superbly illustrated Book of Indian Birds was published. Influenced by his birdwatcher father, he learnt to recognize birds from their pictures even before he could read. He is an unusual combination of a person fascinated by the diversity of the natural world, of the landscapes and the life they support, as well as the diversity of ... Read more

    $7.59 USD

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  • Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic

    Anthropocenic Climate and Shapeshifting Watery Lifeworlds

    Edited by Dan Smyer Yü, Jelle J.P. Wouters ...
    This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world’s altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches. Framed in the environmental humanities, it is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the mutually-embodied relations of climate, nature, culture, and place in the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic.Innovation-driven, the book offers ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Disaster Management

    Edited by Harsh K Gupta ...
    his book contains seven chapters, each dealing with one major natural disaster encountered in our country. Each of the authors is an expert in that particular field. The outstanding contribution of this book is that it not only deals with the forecasting and description of the various natural disasters, but also stresses the management aspect, exhaustively detailing the necessary steps that need ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia

    by C.F.W. Higham, Nam C. Kim ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Southeast Asia ranks among the most significant regions in the world for tracing the prehistory of human endeavor over a period in excess of two million years. It lies in the direct path of successive migrations from the African homeland that saw settlement by hominin populations such as Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. The first Anatomically Modern Humans, following a coastal route, reached ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Sacred Forests of Asia

    Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation

    Edited by Chris Coggins, Bixia Chen ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Himalayan Dilemma

    Reconciling Development and Conservation

    by Jack D. Ives, Bruno Messerli ...
    `This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of environmental studies and international development ... It is indeed, a book appropriate to the urgent and critical issues which it addresses.' - Journal of Environmental ... Read more

    $65.99 USD