Adaptation Frameworks for Climate Change—Eloquent to Himalayan Ecosystems - Impact of Global Changes on Mountains: Responses and Adaptation - page 164

ICIMOD. 2009a. Local responses to too much and too little water in the greater Himalayan
region. Kathmandu, Nepal: ICIMOD.
ICIMOD. 2009b. The changing Himalayas: ICIMOD.
Immerzeel, W.W., L.P.H. van Beck and M.F.P. Bierkens. 2010. Climate change will affect the
Asian water towers. Science 328: 1382-1385.
IPCC. 2001. The Third Assessment Report: Climate Change 2001, Synthesis Report. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, UK.
IPCC. 2007. The Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007, Synthesis Report. Cambridge
University Press , Cambridge, UK.
Ives, J.D. 1987. The theory of Himalayan environmental degradation: its validity and
application challenged by recent research. Mountain Res. Dev. 7: 189-199.
Kaltenborn, B.P., C. Nellemann and I.I. Vistnes. 2010. High mountain glaciers and climate
change - Challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation. United Nations Environment
Programme, GRID-Arendal, www.grida.no.
Kazakis G., Ghosn D., Vogiatzakis I.N., Papanastasis V.P. 2006. Vascular plant diversity and
climate change in the alpine zone of Lefka Ori, Crete. Biodiversity Conservation 16,
1603-1615.
Khanal, N.R. and T. Watanabe. 2006. Abandonment of agricultural land and its consequences:
a case study in the Sikles area, Gandaki basin, Nepal Himalaya. Mountain Research and
Development 26(1): 32-40.
Körner, C. 1999. Alpine Plant Life. Springer, Berlin.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA). 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being:
Synthesis, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report. World Resources Institute, Island
Press, Washington, DC.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA). 2003. People and Ecosystems: A Framework for
Assessment and Action. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Mishra, D.K. 2008. Bihar fl oods: the inevitable has happened. Economic Political Weekly 43:
8-12.
Nandargi, S. and O.N. Dhar. 2012. Extreme Rainstorm Events over the Northwest Himalayas
during 1875-2010. J. Hydrometeor 13: 1383-1388.
Nogués-Bravo, D., M. Araújo, M.P. Errea and J.P. Martinez-Rica. 2006. Exposure of global
mountain systems to climate warming during the 21st century. Global Environmental
Change - Human and Policy Dimensions 17: 420-428.
Pauli, H., M. Gottfried, T. Dirnböck, S. Dullinger and G. Grabherr. 2003. Assessing the long-
term dynamics of endemic plants at summit habitats. In : L. Nagy, G. Grabherr, C. Körner
and D.B.A. Thompson (eds.). Alpine Biodiversity in Europe - A Europe-wide Assessment
of Biological Richness and Change. Ecological Studies 195-207.
Weyant, J., O. Davidson, H. Dowlatabadi, J. Edmonds, M. Grubb, R. Richels, J. Rotmans, P.
Shukla, W. Cline, S. Fankhauser and R. Tol. 1996. Integrated assessment of climate change:
an overview and comparison of approaches and results. In : J. Bruce et al. (eds.). Climate
Change 1995—Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change. Contribution of
Working Group III to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Zobel, D.B. and S.P. Singh. 1997. Forests of the Himalaya: their contribution to ecological
generalizations. Bio. Science 47: 735-745.