Peer Reviewed Journal Article

Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2018

Current climate policies in Nepal and Bangladesh are influenced by various drivers such as unstable political situation, lack of financial support, influence of national and international non-governmental organisations and global policy frameworks.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2018

Due to a projected increase in future temperature trends in the Hindu Kush Himalaya., accelerated melt rates of glaciers, coupled with increased temperature and increase in precipitation is expected to lead to extreme hydro-climatic situations.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2017

Following the Paris agreement of 2015, nations worldwide aspired to limit the level of global temperatures to 1.5°C. However, even this cap on temperatures has widespread implications for the present-day ice mass stored in the high mountains of Asia leading to almost a loss of one-thirds of the glaciers.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2017

The water demand in the upstream and downstream river basins varies based on the type of livelihood practices being carried out, or other activities being carried out, i.e. hydroelectric projects, irrigation and other household activities. This paper analyses the water demand of the up and downstream regions of the Teesta river basin.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2017

This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article , 2017

The status of food and nutrition security and its underlying factors in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is investigated. In this region, one-third to a half of children (<5 years of age) suffer from stunting, with wasting and underweight also being very high.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2017

The waterscape is a perspective that includes the way water travels in time and space and is shaped by culture and geography.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2017

Neglected and underutilized food crops (NUFCs) have high nutritional value, but their role in achieving nutrition security is not adequately understood in the HKH. This paper investigates the decline in cultivation of NUFCs in Pakistan and Nepal.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2016

It is expected that climate and environmental change will hamper poverty reduction, or even exacerbate poverty in some or all of its dimensions. These changes will also affect opportunities for people to generate income. Within climate change hot-spots, innovative interventions are required to reduce such vulnerabilities.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Article, 2016

Small-scale irrigation systems managed by farmers are facing multiple challenges including competing water demand, climatic variability and change, and socioeconomic transformation.

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