This contributed volume focuses on the sustainability of mountain ecosystems in the face of a changing climate. Its chapters highlight climate change impacts on the livelihoods of the people and communities that live in mountains and ways that these effects can be mitigated through adaptive measures. The chapters herein address a gamut of topics from use of remote sensing tools to assess changing ecosystems, disaster management in mountains, policymaking between institutions, and more. This book is suitable for students (undergraduate and postgraduates) of ecology and environmental studies/sciences, mountainous agriculture, mountain forestry, teachers, researchers, climate change scientists in academic and research institutions. It will also be useful to environmental management agencies particularly working towards sustainable development in mountainous regions, disaster management authorities, government agencies and policy makers.
Chapter 1: Emerging threats to mountain ecosystem services under
changing climate.
Chapter 2: Ecosystem Functioning in the Chittagong Hill
Tracts, Bangladesh: Scopes and Challenges for Indigenous Communities
Adaptation to Climate Change.
Chapter 3: Long-term monitoring of Snow Cover
Extent and Land Surface Temperature to understand the warming of mountains in
a semi-urban location of North Western Himalayas.
Chapter 4: Plant
phenological shifts in the Indian Himalayan Region.- Chaper 5: Climate
Variability in the Kilum-Ijim Mountain Range of Cameroon: Implications for
Rural Livelihoods and Food Security.
Chapter 6: Increasing warming of
Cameroons Afromontane landscape: Realities and implications for livelihoods
and sustainability .
Chapter 7: Implications of climate change on Health and
Livelihood of people in Hindu Kush Himalayan Region.
Chapter 8: Minimizing
carbon footprint through the traditional approach Tar Span in the mountain
valleys of Himachal Pradesh .
Chapter 9: Impact of Climate change and
mitigation plans for building climate resilient village ecosystem: Challenges
and adaptive strategies.
Chapter 10: Managing disasters in mountains:
challenges in the era of global warming .
Chapter 11: Ground based and
Geospatial measurement of Aerosol and Black Carbon to assess the Warming
patterns in a sub urban location in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Chapter 12:
Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Climate Change led Ecological Vulnerability
through DPSIR in Indian Himalayan Region.
Chapter 13: Exploring alternative
livelihood opportunities for mountain people as an adaptive strategy to
changing climate: A case of Chyulu Hills, Kenya.
Chapter 14: An area of
Dankness: Food security of Food Producers When the Kosi comes down to the
plains.
Chapter 15: Enhancing Soil Carbon Stocks in Agricultural and Forest
Soils: A Crucial Step towards Climate Change Mitigation and Ecological
Security.
Chapter 16: Warming mountains: Gendered implications for
livelihood and sustainability .
Chapter 17: Analysis of normalized
difference vegetation index (NDVI) of Chittagong Hill Tracts from 1991-2021
using remote sensing tools.
Chapter 18: Communal arrangements for
sustainably managing soil quality and adapting to climate change: a case
study in Peruvian Central Andes .
Chapter 19: Consequences of Climate Change
on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Indian Himalayan Regions: An Overview.-
Chapter 20: Landslides Recovery and Restoration: A Way to Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) 15.
Chapter 21: Community managed forests and their
effectiveness in SDGs implications in Western Himalayan Region.
Sachchidanand Tripathi, Ph.D.
Sachchidanand Tripathi is an associate professor at the Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India. The areas of his interest are plant ecology, soil ecology of various ecosystems, ecophysiology and urban ecology. He has published more than 60 publications (including research publications, books and book chapters, conference proceedings) with journals and publishers of international repute.
Rahul Bhadouria, Ph.D.
Rahul Bhadouria is an assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has published more than 24 papers, 25 book chapters, and 12 edited books in internationally reputed journals/publishers. His current research areas are, management of soil C dynamics to mitigate climate change, a perspective on tree seedling survival and growth attributes in tropical dry forests under the realm of climate change, plant community assembly, functional diversity and soil attributes along the forest-savanna-grassland continuum in India, recovery of degraded mountains in central Himalayas and urban ecology.
Satish Chandra Garkoti, Ph.D.
Satish Chandra Garkoti is Professor at School of Environmental Sciences and Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor) in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His areas of research are Plant Ecology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tree water relations, Plant invasions, Ecosystem restoration, Himalayan Ecology. Prof. Garkoti has 32 years of Research and 23 Years of teaching experience. He is member of various professional societies of international repute such as International Society for Tropical Ecology, India (Fellow); Ecological Society of America, USA (Member); National Institute of Ecology, India (Fellow); International Association for Ecology (INTECOL)(Member). Prof. Garkoti has been awarded and successfully conducted a number of research and development projects funded by various funding agencies of the Government of India. He has published more than 85 research publications, 8 chapters in proceedings and books and 2 books with journals and publishers of international and national repute.
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