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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Himalayas"”.
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Modeling Subglacial Hydrology in the Himalayas
… future subglacial hydrology modeling work in the Himalayas and provides a new framework for studying the effects of climate change on glacier dynamics, water availability, and glacier-related hazards in the Himalaya-Karakoram (H-K) region.
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Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas
… the project of tribal fashioning in the Western Himalayas against the backdrop of affirmative action politics. Specifically, it unpacks the discursive loop between government-administered ethnological paradigms for positive discrimination and its effects on ethnic belonging and spirituality.</p> …
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Thermal and mechanical evolution of continental convergence zones : Zagros and Himalayas.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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Snow leopards and sustainability: livelihoods, governance and coexistence in the Nepal Himalayas
… to 705 households at two sites in the Nepal Himalayas: Sagarmatha National Park, with a centralised governance model, and Annapurna Conservation Area, with a decentralised one. Seventy qualitative interviews were also collected for cross-methods triangulation. Multiple and logistic regression …
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Protesting conservation by protecting the environment: A case study from the Indian Himalayas
The enforcement of restrictions relating to the Dhauladhar Wildlife Sanctuary (DWLS) in Himachal Pradesh, India has catalyzed local resource users into vigorous political action. Through a series of dramatic non-violent protests, villagers have expressed their opposition passionately and …
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Dwindling pastures and fading futures: Gaddi girls’ access to education in Western Himalayas
… transhumant pastoral communities in the Indian Himalayas. It aims to understand the key socio-economic, cultural, and policy barriers that affect Gaddi girls’ access to formal education. The study explores how disruptions to traditional migratory practices, caused by erratic climatic changes and …
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Silicate weathering in the Himalayas: Constraints from the Li isotopic composition of river systems
… and Asia, and the subsequent exhumation of the Himalayas and Tibet. This has drawn attention to the possible links between exhumation, erosion, changes in silicate weathering rates, and climate. However, many of the present-day weathering processes operating on the continents remain debated and …
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Phylogenomics and Geometric Morphometrics Define Species Flocks of Snowtrout (Teleostei: Schizothorax) in the Central Himalayas
… glacier-fed streams, rivers, and lakes in the Himalayas. There are more than 30 species of Schizothorax across the region. The speciation and diversity of the Snowtrout in the vast hinterlands of the Himalayan Region has not been fully explored. Three species in Lake Rara, Western Nepal are …
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Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction based on remote sensing and cloud-resolving modeling over the Central Himalayas
… through monsoonal flow, and steep terrain of the Himalayas modulating the orographic forcing. This dissertation aims to study the impact of atmospheric aerosols, from natural and anthropogenic sources, in modulating the monsoonal precipitation, cloud processes, and freezing isotherm over the …
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Pristine Places and Passive People? Responses to Neoliberal Development and Maoist Conflict in Nepal's Northwest Himalayas
In Humla District, Nepal, agro-pastoralists' confrontations with forces of change in the last generation have altered villagers' abilities to gain access to scarce resources. Development efforts and Nepal's recent armed conflict, in particular, introduced novel technologies and ideologies that …
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Pristine Places and Passive People? Responses to Neoliberal Development and Maoist Conflict in Nepal's Northwest Himalayas
In Humla District, Nepal, agro-pastoralists' confrontations with forces of change in the last generation have altered villagers' abilities to gain access to scarce resources. Development efforts and Nepal's recent armed conflict, in particular, introduced novel technologies and ideologies that …
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Neotectonics Study Along The Frontal Thrust System Of The Fold-Thrust Belt Of Northwest Himalayas, Pakistan
… that the frontal structures in the western Himalayas are still going through an active phase of deformation and geomorphic evolution. The second study is on the Manzai Ranges that evolved in less than 1 MA as suggested by the paleomagnetic data; however, the amount of tectonic shortening and …
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Adaptation to water scarcity in glacier-dependent towns of the Indian Himalayas : impacts, adaptive responses, barriers, and solutions
Among the existing and projected impacts of climate change, impacts on water resources are expected to exacerbate the current and future threat of global water scarcity. Glacier-dependent societies are especially vulnerable to water scarcity due to the more pronounced effects of climate change on …
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Increasing forest cover amidst expanding commercial agriculture: An agent-based simulation of markets and rural livelihoods in the Indian Himalayas
… a group of 17 neighboring villages in the Indian Himalayas revealed a positive correlation between the level of commercial agriculture and forest cover. Commercial agriculture channels resources away from cattle-raising, which is heavily dependent on forests for grazing. Unlike many of the cases …
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Energy security in Asia - Himalayan hydropower
… of current and future developments. The Himalayas natural water resources and high gradients make it the ideal location for power to be sourced through hydropower. The scale of the Himalayas untapped hydropower potential encourages the argument that further investment in the resource …
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Thermal Structure of Mid-Crustal Shear Zones
… knowledge of the kinematic evolution of the Himalayas and Scottish Caledonides, by examining samples from the Main Central Thrust (MCT) (Himalayas) and the Sgurr Beag Thrust (SBT) (Scottish Caledonides). Metamorphic temperatures (Tm) associated above the MCT are inverted; chapter one attempts …
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Lake sediments as climate and tectonic archives in the Indian summer monsoon domain
… two climatically sensitive regions, one in NW Himalayas (transitional westerlies and ISM domain in the Spiti valley and one in the core monsoon zone (Lonar lake) in central India); (iii) undertaken a regional overview to generate “snapshots” of selected time slices; and (iv) interpreted the …
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Active tectonics and earthquake hazards in continental mountain ranges and foreland basins
… tectonics and seismic hazard in the north-west Himalayas. Field, satellite, and seismological observations were used to determine the fault geometry beneath the NW Himalayas and investigate the relationship between thrust faulting and folding. These results were used to construct …
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Nomad: a photographic voyage
… from the sublime mountain terrain of the eastern Himalayas to the quotidian experiences of the backyard lawn, an extensive image bank of digital still and moving-image material has been accumulated. This image-bank has been drawn from to facilitate the development of new imagery that reflects upon …
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