| 书目名称 | Hindu Kush-Himalaya Watersheds Downhill: Landscape Ecology and ConservationPerspectives | | 编辑 | Ganga Ram Regmi,Falk Huettmann | | 视频video | | | 概述 | A comprehensive account of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, its biodiversity, and its sustainability.Comprises some 45 chapters contributed by world experts, organized in five broad sections.Includes a | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book describes the myriad components of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region. The contributors elaborate on challenges, failures, and successes in efforts to conserve the HKH, its indigenous plants and animals, and the watershed that runs from the very roof of the planet via world-rivers to marine estuaries, supporting a human population of some two billion people. Readers will learn how the landforms, animal species and humans of this globally fascinating region are connected, and understand why runoff from snow and ice in the world’s tallest mountains is vital to inhabitants far downstream. ..The book comprises forty-five chapters organized in five parts. The first section, Landscapes, introduces the mountainous watersheds of the HKH, its weather systems, forests, and the 18 major rivers whose headwaters are here. The second part explores concepts, cultures, and religions, including ethnobiology and indigenous regimes, two thousand years of religious tradition,and the history of scientific and research expeditions. Part Three discusses policy, wildlife conservation management, habitat and biodiversity data, as well as the interaction of animals and humans. The fourth part e | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | • Hindu Kush Himalaya; • Watersheds; • Ecology; • Biodiversity Conservation; • Global Sustainability; wat | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36275-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-36277-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-36275-1 | | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |
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