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Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions

Assets and Challenges in Marginal Regions

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Editors:
  1. Raghubir Chand

    1. Department of Geography, Kumaun University, Nainital, India

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  2. Walter Leimgruber

    1. Dept. of Geosciences, Geography, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

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  • Examines the important economic and ecological services that mountains provide to the world
  • Considers the effects of climate change on nature and on local/regional societies
  • Includes a particular focus on the Himalayas and marginal regions
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality (PGEO, volume 1)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Globalization and Marginalization in Mountain Regions

    • Raghubir Chand, Walter Leimgruber
    Pages 1-8

  4. Development Potential of Mountain Regions and Globalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-44
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    2. Mountain Regions: A Global Common Good?

      • Bernard Debarbieux, Martin F. Price
      Pages 45-53

    3. The Impact of Marginalization and Globalization in the Czech-German-Austrian Mountain Borderland in the Former Iron Curtain Area

      • Alena Matuskova, Magdalena Rousova
      Pages 55-73

    4. Hydropower Potential, Marginality and Sustainable Regional Development. Examples from Tyrol/Austria and Aisén/Chile

      • Axel Borsdorf
      Pages 75-85

    5. Himalaya: Highest, Holy and Hijacked

      • Shekhar Pathak
      Pages 87-109

    6. The Himalayas as the Providers of Essential Ecosystem Services—Opportunities and Challenges

      • Andreas Schild
      Pages 111-119

    7. Going Global: Livelihoods and Globalization in the Niti Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, India

      • Keith Bosak, Sunil Kainthola
      Pages 121-134

    8. Globalization and the Indian Himalayan States: Mitigating or Accentuating Marginalization?

      • T. S. Papola
      Pages 135-145

    9. Highlands Developments in Malaysia

      • Jamalunlaili Abdullah
      Pages 147-156

  5. Climate Change, Mountain Ecology, and Adaptation in the Himalayas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-159
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    2. Impact of Global Warming on Climate Change Regarding Water Supply in the Darjeeling Hills of the Eastern Himalaya and Change in Mountain Ecology

      • A. Basumajumdar
      Pages 161-171

    3. Ambient Air Quality Status and Its Sources in Urban and Semi-urban Locations of Himachal Pradesh, India

      • Harinder Kumar Thakur, Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal
      Pages 173-189

    4. The Impact of Climate Change on the Shifting of the Vegetation Line in the Indian Himalaya: A Case Study from the Kutiyangti Watershed

      • J. S. Rawat, M. Kumar, V. Viswas, V. S. Rawat, N. Gahlaut
      Pages 191-198

    5. Leguminous Plants of the Kumaun Himalaya: Diversity, Distribution, Threats and Management

      • Kiran Bargali
      Pages 199-204

    6. Plant Diversity and Vegetation Composition of Shiwalik Forests Along an Altitudinal Gradient in the Kumaun Himalaya, India

      • L. S. Lodhiyal, Neelu Lodhiyal, G. C. Pathak
      Pages 205-227
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About this book

This book looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization. With a special focus on the Himalayas, it also examines the Czech–German–Austrian mountain borderland, the Alps, the Andes, the highland regions of Malaysia, and the Arctic. The contributors, specialists in their fields, all use an integrative approach that develops and argues the concept of mountain regions as a global common good. Readers also discover that mountain systems and mountain communities are often marginalized and left behind by the process of globalization.
 
Case studies throughout detail the effects of climate change and global warming on both nature and local/regional societies, such as declining water supplies, a shifting vegetation line, and other important issues   facing not only mountains but also the vast regions depending on them. In addition, the comprehensive coverageoffers authenticated viewpoints  from some of the most eminent explorers of Tibet in the nineteenth century. More than 50 percent of the global human population draws benefits directly or indirectly from mountain resources and services. This book provides practitioners, researchers, students, and other interested readers with a compelling look at the global importance of this imposing, yet sensitive ecosystem.


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“Globalization and Marginalization in Mountains Regions a significant contribution to the literature on marginality studies in mountains. The contributors, all experts in their fields, use an integrative approach that advances the concept of mountain regions as a global common good. … This is all the more reason for practitioners, researchers, students, and other interested readers to take seriously the global importance of these imposing, yet sensitive ecosystems–mountains–and the challenges faced by those who call them home.” (Zac Robinson, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 37 (1), February, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, Kumaun University, Nainital, India

    Raghubir Chand

  • Dept. of Geosciences, Geography, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Walter Leimgruber

About the editors

Walter Leimgruber: His research interest includes boundaries and transborder relations, regional development and inequality issues. He obtained his PhD and university aggregation in the University of Basle (Switzerland) and taught at the University of Fribourg/CH from 1982 till his retirement in 2009. He has authored and edited/co-edited 7 books.

Raghubir Chand: His research interest is the mountain geography in the fields of Himalayan environment and land use planning, socio-economic and demographic transformation of Himalayan societies besides his involvement in migration studies, agricultural productivity, cultural geography, environmental and livelihood support systems of tribal communities of Bhutan and other parts of western Himalaya. He has published two books including Brokpas: The Hidden Highlanders of Bhutan (2004). He has published 70 papers in various national and international journals. He is in the editorial board and one of the founder members of PAHAR - a research journal of people’s Association for Himalayan Area Research based at Nainital.

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