Carbon Management for Promoting Local Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region

​Dr. Zhanhuan Shang is a Professor at the School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University in China. Dr. Muhammad Khalid Rafiq is a Senior Scientific Officer at the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council in Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. Victor R. Squires is an Ex-Professor and Consultant at International Dryland Management Consultant, Adelaide University, Australia.

• Chapter1: Managing Carbon Cycle Linkage to Livelihood in HKH Region.- Chapter2: Climate Change Mitigation and Pastoral Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region: Research Focuses, Opportunities and Challenges.- Chapter3: Tracking of Vegetation Carbon Dynamics from 2001 to 2016 by MODIS GPP in HKH region.- Chapter4: Livelihood and Carbon Management by Indigenous People in Southern Himalayas.- Chapter5: Effects of Different Grassland Management Patterns on Soil Properties on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.- Chapter6: Carbon Management of the Livestock Industry in the HKH Region.- Chapter7: Wetlands as a Carbon Sink: Insight into the Himalayan Region.- Chapter8: Milk and Dung Production by Yaks (Poephagus grunniens): Important Products for the Livelihood of the Herders and for Carbon Recycling on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.- Chapter9: Interactive Mechanism of Service Function of Ecosystems and the Effect of Climate Change to the Service Function of Ecosystem in Alpine Grassland of Tibetan Plateau.- Chapter10: Prospects of Biochar for Carbon Sequestration and Livelihood Improvement in the Tibetan Grasslands.- Chapter11: Optimizing the Alpine Grazing System to Improve Carbon Management and Livelihood for Tibetan Herders.- Chapter12: Promoting Artificial Grasslands to Improve Carbon Sequestration and Livelihood of Herders.- Chapter13: Prospects for REDD+ Financing in Promoting Forest Sustainable Management in HKH.- Chapter14: Designing Water Resource Use for Poverty Reduction in the HKH Region: Institutional and Policy Perspectives.- Chapter15: Indigenous Practice in Agro-pastoralism and Carbon Management from a Gender Perspective: A Case from Nepal.- Chapter16: Adaptation by Herders on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in Response to Climate Change and Policy Reforms: the Implications for Carbon Sequestration and Livelihoods.- Chapter17: Developing Linkages for Carbon Sequestration, Livelihoods and Ecosystem Service Provision in Mountain Landscapes--Challenges and Opportunities in the Himalaya Hindu Kush (HKH) Region.- Chapter18: Experience for Future Good Practice and Policy of Combined Carbon Management and Livelihood in HKH Region.