The Routledge International Handbook of Himalayan Environments, Development and Wellbeing (Hardcover, 1)

Dedication? List of figures? List of tables? Preface? Acknowledgements? List of contributors? Acronyms and abbreviations? Handbook Introduction??Part One: Environments? Introduction: Storytelling Social Ecologies of Change? 1. Forest Change and Human-Forest Interactions in the Himalaya? 2. The Role of Historical Ecology to Assess Risks to Livelihood in the Himalayas from Climate Warming? 3. A Historical Case Study in Women-led Socio-Ecological Innovation: How Gender and Environment Came to Matter in 15th?Century Tibet (and Now)? 4. High-Mountain Farming and Interacting Processes of Change in Ladakh Over the Last 30?40 Years: the Case of Hemis-Shukpa-Chan? 5. Digital Infrastructures, Practices and Social Agency on the Trail to Everest? 6. The Translocal Sherpa from Iconic Everest to Symbolic New York:?Senses of Belonging and Connecting in Migration? 7. Territories for Protecting a “Pristine Nature”: National Parks in the Himalayas, New Places of Power and Tension? 8. Community Conserved Areas in Northeast India and their Role in Addressing Human-Wildlife Conflict? 9. An Environment of One’s Choice: Community, Ecology, and Tourism in Arunachal Pradesh? 10. Living with Landslides in Sindhupalchok: Mapping Local Knowledge and Strategies in the Context of the Federal Decentralising Era in Nepal? 11. Commoning, Conservation and Mapping in Garo Hills, Northeast India? 12. Marrying Glaciers: Viewing Human-Nature Relationship Through the Lens of Political Ecology in the Western Himalayas? 13.?Mi Mayin?(Other-Than-Humans) in the Bhutan Lowlands and Highlands: Agency, Affect, and Annexation? 14. Tracing the Agrarian History of the Sub-Himalayan Forest Frontiers? 15. Farming Systems, Food Security, and Contemporary Climate Issues?in Nepal? 16. Resilience in Shangri-La? 17. Himalayan Connections in Lunana and Limi: Baselines for Climate Change Perception in Two ‘Remote’ Communities in Bhutan and Nepal? 18. Climate Change Adaptation in Nepal: Livelihood, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge & Practices, and Climate Science? 19.?JaDibuti, Plants, Genetic Resources: Conversations among Ayurveda Practitioners, Conservationists, and Plant Scientists on Traditional Medical Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal??Part Two: Developments??The Many Faces of Development: An Introduction? 20. Development, Displacement, Rehabilitation and Environment in Northeast India? 21. Silent Dis-possession of Water in Communal Irrigation at the Foothills of the Himalayas? 22.?Thulo Maanche: Implications for Development, Equality, and Democracy in Nepal? 23. In-between Mobilities: Risks and Uncertainty in Labor Migration from Nepal? 24. Biogas in Nepal: A Socio-Technical Perspective of Energy Innovation? 25.?Kisan Dharma: A Worldview for Conservation of Natural Resources and Livelihood Security in Nepal? 26. Black Cardamom and Crisis in Hypercolonial Kalimpong? 27. The Assam-Bengal Railways and Socio-Spatial Changes in the Indian Himalayan Region? 28. “What road? I built it myself on my way here.” Roads, Wars, and the Infrastructure of Citizenship in the Indian Himalayas? 29. Building Capacity, Not Infrastructure: Lessons from Hydropower Development in Nepal? 30. From Yam to Sponge: Recent Controversies around Nepal’s Sovereignty, Territory and Hydropower? 31. Dam(n)ed If You Do, Dam(n)ed If You Don’t: Dams, Development and Contestations in Kinnaur, Western Himalayas? 32. Rapid Urbanization and its Consequences: A Case Study of Bharatpur, Nepal? 33. Rethinking the Himalayan Megaproject: Rainwater Harvesting and the Decentralized Alternative to Kathmandu’s Urban Resource Crunch? 34. Modernity, Development, and Waste Management in Northeast India? 35. Anthropology of State: Images and Practices of Inclusive Governance in Nepal? 36. Geopolitics over Development in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains? 37. Gender and Sustainable Development in the Himalayas: People, Power, and Possibilities? 38. Women as Neoliberal Development Subjects: A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective on Development in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan??Part Three: Wellbeings??Introduction: Culture, Place, and Wellbeings? 39. Revisiting Mental Health Help-Seeking in the Himalaya: Shifting Ecologies of Care in Post-Earthquake Nepal? 40.?Sowa Rigpa?and the State in India’s Himalayan Borderlands? 41. Precarity and Wellbeing: Pandemic, Food Systems, and Health Ecologies in Dolpo? 42. Heterogeneity of Institutionalizing?Sowa Rigpa?Education in Nepal Himalaya? 43. Ayurveda and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nepal? 44. Putting People at the Center of Solutions: Embracing Human-centered Design Thinking and Approaches for Developing Menstrual Health Interventions in Nepal? 45. Living Homes among the Raji and Raute of Nepal? 46. The Truths of Dispossession in the Western Himalaya? 47. Global Population Politics in Nepal: From a “Small, Happy Family” to a “Smart Life”? 48. Addressing Dalit Wellbeing through Counter Ritual? 49. Of Ploughmen and Drummers: Dalit Consciousness in Nepali-Language Literature? 50. Food Intake, Activity Patterns, and Nutritional Status Among Nepali Hindu and Buddhist Sherpa Women: A Biocultural Perspective? 51. Nettle Stew and Danger?Momos: Himalayan Culinary Innovation from the Diaspora? 52. Toward Holistic Well-being: Gross National Happiness and Alternative Futures in Bhutan? 53. Rethinking Museums in Places of Lived Heritage? 54. Seeking Wellbeing through Song:?Dohori?Singers’ Everyday World-making? Index