Climate Change in the Himalayas

Dr. Amit Kumar is a Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He obtained his M.Tech and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and conducted his postdoctoral research at Hohai University, China. Dr. Kumar’s research spans the ecological health of aquatic habitats, water quality modeling, and water security practices to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. He has published five books, including Elsevier’s Climate Change in the Himalayas, and is an advisory board member for the Elsevier journal Ecological Indicators. Dr. Wil De Jong studied forestry at Wageningen Agricultural University, in the Netherlands. He moved to the tropics in 1982 to explore the role of forests in people’s lives. He worked in Peru for seven years, spent four years at the New York Botanical Garden’s Institute of Economic Botany and then three years as a post-doc in West Kalimantan Indonesia. In 1995 he joined the Center for International Forestry Research where he worked for 10 years before moving to Japan. He was professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka and since 2006 joined Kyoto University’s Center for Integrated Area Studies and later CSEAS. His research is on tropical forest governance and policies, smallholder and community forestry, forest and climate change, forest restoration and forest transition. He has undertaken research in Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia, Vietnam, India and China, and has 160 published titles to his name. Since 2021 he was appointed Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University. Dr. Munesh Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry & Natural Resources at the Uttarakhand campus of H.N.B. Garhwal University. His research interests include forestry, Himalayan biodiversity, climate change, carbon sequestration, and carbon fluxes. He is a guest editor for Land and Frontiers in Environmental Science. Dr. Rajiv Pandey is a Senior Scientist and the Head of the Division of Forestry Statistics for the Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, Dehradun. He has held this position for more than 23 years. Over this time, he has dedicated his work for understanding the non-linearity of natural resources to society and impacts of climate change, in addition to teaching research methodology and climate change. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Ecological Indicators and a co-editor for Frontiers in Climate Risk Management.

• 1. An overview of Himalayan forests 2. Assessment and Management of Small Farmer’s Climate Risks in the Hills and Plains of Nepal 3. Categorization of farmer's response to climate change between coping and adaptation action 4. Forest Transition and Ecosystem Services in Himalaya5. Viable land use options to achieve multiple ecosystem services in Eastern Himalayas of India 6. Carbon in Forest ecosystem in difficult terrains on Himalaya 7. Climate-resilient pathways and nature-based solutions to reduce vulnerabilities to Climate change in the Indian Eastern Himalayas 8. REDD+ and Its Implementation in Himalayan Region: Policy Issues 9. Modelling SOC in the Indian Himalayan region: implications for carbon management10. Leveraging on technology-driven information systems for conservation through informed decisions in the Hindu Kush Himalayas 11. Ecosystem Services of Indian Himalayan Region in a Changing Environment: An overview 12. Raging forest fires in Hindukush Himalaya; socio-environmental dimensions and adaptation mechanisms13. Carbon stock inventory and biomass production in different land use systems of North-Western Himalaya 14. Vulnerability assessment of forest ecosystems: climate change perspective 15. Synthesis and conclusions