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Erscheinungsdatum

03.01.2024

Herausgeber

Pushkar K. Pradhan + weitere

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Springer

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327

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23,5/15,5/2 cm

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534 g

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1st ed. 2022

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Englisch

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978-3-031-21327-4

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Pushkar K Pradhan  is Professor of Geography at Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu, Nepal. He has gained over three and half decades of professional experience in teaching, research and publication. He has earned his PhD degree from the Institute of Geography and Regional Science at Klagenfurt University, Austria, a MSc in Rural and Regional Development Planning from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and a MA in Geography from TU, Nepal. He has published 38 research papers and books nationally and internationally and participated in over three dozen international and national seminars. He has held lead positions and has been a member of over six dozen research projects and consulting works with the national, international and multilateral agencies.

Walter Leimgruber is an emeritus professor of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he taught human and regional geography from 1982 to 2009. He presided the Swiss Geographical Society andAssociation of Swiss Geographers (1987-1989) and was chair of the IGU Commission on Evolving Issues of Geographical Marginality in the Early 21st Century World (2000-2004). Currently he serves as secretary of the IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Response. His research focused on boundaries and transborder relations and on mountains and marginal regions. He has authored or co-authored 11 books, 48 book chapters and over 80 articles.

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03.01.2024

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1st ed. 2022

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978-3-031-21327-4

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  • Part 1. Introduction.- 1. Natural Disasters, Marginal Regions and Labor Migration (Pushkar K Pradhan and Walter Leimgruber).- Part 2. Human Interference and Natural Systems.- 2. Environmental Un-Sustainability or the Cost of Civilization (Walter Leimgruber).- 3. Climate Change and Health Impacts on Vulnerable Communities: the Case of Kala-Azar (Visceral Leishmaniasis) in Nepal (Bandana Pradhan and Birgit Kuna).- 4. Cryosphere Changes, Cascading Disasters, and Societies – a Case in Langtang Valley (Binaya Pasakhala, Amina Maharjan, Sabarnee Tuladhar, Arabinda Mishra).- Part 3. Geomorphological and Water Issues: Nepal and Brazil.- 5. Urbanization and Soil Erosion in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Chhabi L Chidi).- 6. Assessing Terrain Hazards for Sustainable Human Settlements in Chāngunārāyan Municipality of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Krishna Karkee, Shakti Gurung and Anish Joshi).- 7. River Ecology Services and Riparian Communities in the Tāmākoshi River Basin, Central Nepal (Uttam S Shrestha and Saruna Amatya Shrestha).- 8. Traditional Water Supply Systems and Sponge City Concept Toward Improving Environmental Marginalization in Kirtipur Municipality, Nepal (Gyanu R Maharjan).- 9. Everyday Water use: Vulnerability and Resistance in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Shobha Shrestha and Devi P Poudel).- 10. Marginalized Urban Rivers: Between Local Governance and Environmental Justice (Ivaldo Lima).- Part 4. Economy and Society: Nepal and Southeast Asia.- 11. Empowerment of Dalit Women’s Groups Through Micro-Finance and Social Capital in Nepal (Chikako Aoki and Pushkar K Pradhan).- 12. Informal Marketing and Livelihood of Marginal Communities in Urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Puspa Sharma).- 13. Farmers’ access to agriculture development services in eastern hills of Nepal: a case of the Tinjure-Milke Watershed Region (Shyam P. Wagle).- 14. People’s Accessibility and Periodic Markets in the Tankhuwākholā Watershed, Eastern Hills of Nepal (Shambhu P. Khatiwada).- 15. Human-Elephant Conflict Impact Toward Marginalized Community of Ulu Tembeling (Jamalunlaili Abdullah and Mohd Ruzed Embong).- 16. Sedentarization Program and Everyday Resistance to State Intervention in Vietnam’s Upland (Doo-Chul Kim and Quy Le Ngoc Phuong).- Part 5. Regional Policy Issues.- 17. Accessibility and Governance Systems in Local Development: Measuring Marginality in the Mid-Marsyāngdi River Basin, Nepal (Balkrishna Baral).- 18. Cohesion Policy in the Struggle Against the Marginalization of the Inner Peripheries – Polish Experience and Recommendations (Pawel Churski, Anna Dubownik, Czeslaw Adamiak & Barbara Szyda).- 19. Between Two Empires: the Jiftlik Marginal Lands in the Jordan Valley and the Jiftlik Ottoman Saraya and British Police Post 1890-1948 (Rivka Yermiash and Ruth Kark).- Part 6. Conclusion.- 20. Humans and Nature: Conflict or Cooperation? (Pushkar K Pradhan, Walter Leimgruber).