Climate Change, Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya
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mate Change, Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya Contributions Toward Future Earth Initiatives
Climate Change, Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya
R.B. Singh • Udo Schickhoff • Suraj Mal Editors
Climate Change, Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya Contributions Toward Future Earth Initiatives
Editors R.B. Singh
Department of Geography Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi Delhi, India
Udo Schickhoff CEN Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Institute of Geography University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
Suraj Mal Department of Geography Shaheed Bhagat Singh College University of Delhi Delhi, India
ISBN 978-3-319-28975-5 ISBN 978-3-319-28977-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28977-9
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Foreword
I have been working on a report for the FAO recently that is about how the mountains of the world reached the level of the United Nations that initiated a mountain chapter in the so-called Agenda 21 and with 10 mountain resolutions in the UN General Assembly between 1998 and 2014. In this report the Himalaya is playing a very important role. In the present book, I found in 3 sections and 20 chapters having a lot of highly promising and fascinating scientific problems or approaches, which are fundamental for the future of our planet and its still growing population. In 1960 the world population was about three billion, but in 2050 only two countries, China and India, will have together three billion inhabitants, following the UN Population Division. In “the International Year of Mountains 2002”, the FAO as task manager of the mountain chapter in Agenda 21 published a report that 718 million people a
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