Foreword.- Preface.- Index.- Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Scene.- WG1 DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND INTEGRATED FUTURE SCENARIOS.- Chapter 2 Drivers of Change to Mountain Sustainability.- Chapter 3 Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.- Chapter 4 Exploring Futures of the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Scenarios and Pathways.- WG2 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE HKH.- Chapter 5 Sustaining HKH Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 6 Meeting Energy Needs in the HKH.- Chapter 7 Status and Change of the HKH Cryosphere.- Chapter 8 Water Security: Availability, Use, and Governance.- Chapter 9 Food and Nutrition Security in the HKH.- Chapter 10 Air Pollution in the HKH.- WG3 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE HKH.- Chapter 11 Disaster Risk Reduction and Increasing Resilience.- Chapter 12 Poverty and Vulnerability in Mountain Livelihoods.- Chapter 13 Adaptations to Climate Change.- Chapter 14 Gender and Inclusive Development.- Chapter 15 Migration in the HKH: Governance, Drivers, and Consequences.- Chapter 156 Environmental Governance in the HKH.- Bibliography.
Dr Philippus (Flip) Wester joined ICIMOD in March 2013 as
Chief Scientist Water Resources Management, and was appointed
Regional Programme Manager of ICIMOD’s Mountain Knowledge and
Action Networks (MKAN) Regional Programme in 2018. He is the
Coordinator of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment
Programme (HIMAP) and the Principal Investigator of the Himalayan
Adaptation, WAter and REsilience (HI-AWARE) consortium. From 2000
to 2012 he was Assistant Professor for Water Governance and
Institutional Change at Wageningen University, after working with
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands as Bilateral
Associate Expert in Water Management in Bangladesh from 1995 to
1998 (with the Bangladesh Water Development Board) and in Mexico
from 1998 to 2000 (with the International Water Management
Institute). He is passionate about developing and nurturing
sustainable mountain development knowledge action networks,
enhancing capacity and collaboration among universities,
researchers, and policy makers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, and
developing evidence-based policies and practical solutions based on
research, knowledge sharing and skills development. Trained as an
interdisciplinary water management researcher with a PhD in water
resources management from Wageningen University, he has 25 years of
experience, focusing on the interrelationships between the social,
technical, political and physical dimensions of climate change
adaptation and water resources management.
Dr Arabinda Mishra joined ICIMOD in June 2015 as a Senior
Social Scientist and became the Theme Leader of the Livelihoods
Thematic Area in January 2018. Earlier he was at TERI University
(TU) in New Delhi, India, joining in 2005 as an Associate Professor
and becoming a Professor in 2013. Since 2008 till his leaving the
university, he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Policy and
Planning at TERI University and from 2008 to 2013 he had the
concurrent responsibility ofDirector, Earth Science and Climate
Change Division in The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New
Delhi. Prior to joining TERI University, he was a Fellow at the
Centre for Multi-disciplinary Development Research (CMDR) in
Karnataka, an institution affiliated to the Indian Council of
Social Science Research (ICSSR). Trained as an economist and with a
PhD from Sambalpur University, he has over 25 years of teaching and
research experience, successfully supervised doctoral research of 6
students, published over 30 peer reviewed journal papers and book
chapters, and has several edited books to his credit. In the past
10 years he has been working in the field of adaptation to climate
change – more recently on mountain livelihoods enhancement and
resilience building as well – leading major research and
consultancy projects, designing and delivering capacity building
programmes on adaptation policymaking, alongside integrating
research with teaching and curriculum development.
Dr Aditi Mukherji is a Theme Leader, Water and Air, at
ICIMOD where she leads a group of 30 professionals in their work on
water, air pollution and climate change. Her own research at ICIMOD
looks at issues of local water access for the mountain communities.
Earlier, she was a Senior Researcher at the International Water
Management Institute (IWMI), based at Colombo, Sri Lanka. She has
over 18 years of experience working on policies and institutions of
water resources management with a special focus on
water-energy-food nexus. She has worked in South Asia, the Nile
Basin, Central Asia and in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. She has
published over 50 peer reviewed research papers, including two
edited books by Taylor and Francis. In 2012, she was awarded the
Inaugural Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application
by the World Food Prize Foundation, USA. She is currently a part of
the 6th Assessment Report team of the IPCC and will contribute as
aCoordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the Water Chapter and as a
Review Editor (RE) of the Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere
in a Changing Climate (SROCC). Aditi is a human geographer and has
a PhD from Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
Dr Arun Bhakta Shrestha is a Senior Climate Change
Specialist at ICIMOD and Programme Manager of the River Basins and
Cryosphere Regional Programme. He has a PhD in Earth Sciences from
the University of New Hampshire, USA, and a Master's degree in
Hydraulic Engineering from Minsk, former USSR. Before joining
ICIMOD, Dr Shrestha worked for the Department of Hydrology and
Meteorology, Nepal. His main areas of expertise include climate
change, glaciers and glacial hazards, glacial lake risk mitigation,
atmospheric environment, and hydrological modelling. Dr Shrestha
has had several publications in peer reviewed international
journals, national journals, and magazines. He was involved in the
Tsho Rolpa Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risk Reduction Project and
was in the scientific team for the preparation of the First
National Communication of Nepal to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Dr Shrestha is on the
editorial panel for Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk (Tylor and
Francis) and Journal of Hydrology Meteorology (Society of
Hydrologists and Meteorologists, Nepal). Dr Shrestha has been
awarded Mahendra Vidya Bhushan (medal) by Late King of Nepal,
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah and with Gorkha Dakchhin Bahushan (medal)
by Former King of Nepal, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah.
“This is a landmark piece of work focused on a region that is a hotspot for climate change impacts.” (Damian Carrington, The Guardian, theguardian.com, February 04, 2019)
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