The Routledge International Handbook of Himalayan Environments, Development and Wellbeing

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-58640-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 666 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

Shifting dynamics of peoples, livelihoods, and territories, influenced by global warming, require new ways of thinking and new kinds of politics beyond the sovereignties of idealized traditional European nation-states. The Routledge International Handbook of Himalayan Environments, Development and Wellbeing features over 70 scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences who explore the interrelationships between environmental change, development, and wellbeing across the entire Himalayan region—from the Indian Himalayas in the east to Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet (TAR), India, and Gilgit-Baltistan in the west.

Within over 50 chapters, the handbook presents engaging field-based research on the region's socio-cultural diversity, climate adaptation, and socio-economic transformation. It examines creative ways Himalayan communities adapt, seek wellbeing, and respond to environmental and development challenges. Lessons about learning from Indigenous and local peoples, about governance of forests and water, and grassroots conservation practices from the Himalayan region can help inform global networks of researchers and practitioners.

The handbook will interest scholars, students, stakeholders, and the public about the evolving relationships between Himalayan peoples, territories, and global warming, offering insights into people’s creative ways for understanding, adapting, and seeking wellbeing in environmental relations and development possibilities.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Ben

Cameron, Mary

Subba, Tanka

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Cameron is a writer and socio-environmental activist whose research in Nepal explores human-nature engagements, Ayurvedic medicine, and gender and caste. From 1992-2021, she was Professor of Anthropology, and directed gender studies programs, at Florida Atlantic University and Auburn University, USA. She received three Fulbright grants; alumni, leadership and teaching awards; and numerous other grants. She authored Three Fruits: Nepali Ayurvedic Doctors on Health, Nature, and Social Change (2019) and the award-winning On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal (1998).

Tanka B. Subba is Visiting Professor at the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar and Ombudsperson of Darjeeling Hills University. Earlier, from 2012 to 2017, he served as the Vice-Chancellor of Sikkim University. He received awards like the Homi Bhabha Fellowship (Mumbai), Dr. Panchanan Mitra Lectureship and R.P. Chanda Centenary Medal for 2015 (Asiatic Society, Kolkata), DAAD Guest professorship at the Free University of Berlin, and Baden-Wuerttemberg Fellowship at the South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University. He has authored and edited 18 books and published over 80 articles on various issues related to the Eastern Himalayas.

Ben Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Durham University, UK. He traveled from 1976 into Himalayan spaces between Kashmir, Nepal and Darjeeling, starting his research career learning Tamang in Nepal in 1988. He directs an MA program on Sustainability, Energy and Development, and his book about the impact of nature conservation on indigenous environmental knowledge and practice in a Tamang-speaking community is Living Between Juniper and Palm: Nature, Culture and Power in the Himalayas (2013).