The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment, 1st ed. 2019
Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People

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This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people?s well-being. The compiled content is based on the collective knowledge of over 300 leading researchers, experts and policymakers, brought together by the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme (HIMAP) under the coordination of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). This assessment was conducted between 2013 and 2017 as the first of a series of monitoring and assessment reports, under the guidance of the HIMAP Steering Committee: Eklabya Sharma (ICIMOD), Atiq Raman (Bangladesh), Yuba Raj Khatiwada (Nepal), Linxiu Zhang (China), Surendra Pratap Singh (India), Tandong Yao (China) and David Molden (ICIMOD and Chair of the HIMAP SC).

This First HKH Assessment Report consists of 16 chapters, which comprehensively assess the current state of knowledge of the HKH region, increase the understanding of various drivers of change and their impacts, address critical data gaps and develop a set of evidence-based and actionable policy solutions and recommendations. These are linked to nine mountain priorities for the mountains and people of the HKH consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals. 

This book is a must-read for policy makers, academics and students interested in this important region and an essentially important resource for contributors to global assessments such as the IPCC reports.

Foreword.- Preface.- Index.- Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Scene.- WG1 DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND INTEGRATED FUTURE SCENARIOS.- Chapter 2 Drivers of Change to Mountain Sustainability.- Chapter 3 Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.- Chapter 4 Exploring Futures of the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Scenarios and Pathways.- WG2 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE HKH.- Chapter 5 Sustaining HKH Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 6 Meeting Energy Needs in the HKH.- Chapter 7 Status and Change of the HKH Cryosphere.- Chapter 8 Water Security: Availability, Use, and Governance.- Chapter 9 Food and Nutrition Security in the HKH.- Chapter 10 Air Pollution in the HKH.- WG3 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE HKH.- Chapter 11 Disaster Risk Reduction and Increasing Resilience.- Chapter 12 Poverty and Vulnerability in Mountain Livelihoods.- Chapter 13 Adaptations to Climate Change.- Chapter 14 Gender and Inclusive Development.- Chapter 15 Migration in the HKH: Governance, Drivers, and Consequences.- Chapter 156 Environmental Governance in the HKH.- Bibliography.
Dr Philippus (Flip) Wester joined ICIMOD in March 2013 as Chief Scientist Water Resources Management, and was appointed Regional Programme Manager of ICIMOD’s Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) Regional Programme in 2018. He is the Coordinator of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme (HIMAP) and the Principal Investigator of the Himalayan Adaptation, WAter and REsilience (HI-AWARE) consortium. From 2000 to 2012 he was Assistant Professor for Water Governance and Institutional Change at Wageningen University, after working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands as Bilateral Associate Expert in Water Management in Bangladesh from 1995 to 1998 (with the Bangladesh Water Development Board) and in Mexico from 1998 to 2000 (with the International Water Management Institute). He is passionate about developing and nurturing sustainable mountain development knowledge action networks, enhancing capacity and collaboration among universities, researchers, and policy makers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, and developing evidence-based policies and practical solutions based on research, knowledge sharing and skills development. Trained as an interdisciplinary water management researcher with a PhD in water resources management from Wageningen University, he has 25 years of experience, focusing on the interrelationships between the social, technical, political and physical dimensions of climate change adaptation and water resources management.

Dr Arabinda Mishra joined ICIMOD in June 2015 as a Senior Social Scientist and became the Theme Leader of the Livelihoods Thematic Area in January 2018. Earlier he was at TERI University (TU) in New Delhi, India, joining in 2005 as an Associate Professor and becoming a Professor in 2013. Since 2008 till his leaving the university, he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Policy and Planning at TERI University and from 2008 to 2013 he had the concurrent responsibility of
Constitutes the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, providing an authoritative overview of the region Assembles the collective knowledge of over 300 leading researchers, practitioners, experts, and policymakers Combines the current state of knowledge of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region in one volume Offers Open Access to a set of evidence-based and actionable policy solutions and recommendations and nine mountain priorities consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals