Carbon Management for Promoting Local Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region
This book contributes to our understanding of linkages between carbon management and local livelihoods by taking stock of the existing evidence and drawing on field experiences in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, an area that provides fresh water to
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Carbon Management for Promoting Local Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region
Zhanhuan Shang • A. Allan Degen Muhammad Khalid Rafiq • Victor R. Squires Editors
Carbon Management for Promoting Local Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region
Editors Zhanhuan Shang School of Life Sciences Lanzhou University Lanzhou, Gansu, China
A. Allan Degen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva, Israel
Muhammad Khalid Rafiq Pakistan Agricultural Research Council Islamabad, Pakistan
Victor R. Squires University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Preface
In the context of globalization, ‘carbon’ has emerged as a ‘global currency’ and is taking on increasingly important functions in global politics, ecological projects and economy. One of the most important achievements of the 2018 COP24 conference in Katowice, Poland, was the commitment of all contracting states to ‘nationally report greenhouse gas emissions and emission reduction efforts to establish a unified and transparent set of guidelines’. This means that a set of standards for carbon emission reduction will be adopted worldwide that could link actions by global organizations, countries and regions. It also means that carbon will be the most effective tool to measure regional differences in the world. In view of this, carbon management has become crucial for regional and local livelihood development. This book applies these concepts to t
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