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Dear Friends,
ICIMOD is pleased to announce the release of the following knowledge products.
These products are available online and can be accessed/downloaded from HIMALDOC. We hope that you find them useful and would be happy to receive your comments.
New datasets are available from our Regional Database System Portal.
Happy reading!
Best regards,
Shiva
Shiva Hari Khatri
Communication and Distribution Associate
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A supplement to the Climate Change Scenarios for Nepal report published by the Ministry of Forests and Environment for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process, this manual provides detailed information about the processes through which the assessment highlighted in the report can be carried out.
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This study analyses the historical evolution and status of three natural resource management frameworks – REDD+, payment for ecosystem services (PES), and integrated water resources management (IWRM) – in Nepal. This analysis of the documented development of REDD+ and PES practices related to IWRM seeks to improve understanding of Nepal’s specific country context, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and barriers towards strengthening linkages and improving synergies between these natural resource management frameworks.
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Yaks are integral to the culture, tradition, and social life of the high-mountain communities of the HKH. However, yak herding is impacted by climate change, closure of international borders, and increasing disinterest among the youth in the yak herding system. This has heightened the social vulnerability of the yak-dependent communities. At a parallel session organized during the 2019 “International conference on SAADC”, we discussed the challenges and opportunities facing sustainable yak development in the HKH.
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Effective ecosystems management and building the resilience of local communities are amongst the main goals of our Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI). The workshop, “Environmental management in a changing climate: Communicating local perspectives from the Kailash Sacred Landscape”, provided an opportunity for key stakeholders from the federal, state, and local levels of government, as well as civil society representatives and researchers, to come together to discuss how to make environmental management systems more sustainable in a changing climate.
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Critical climate stress moments may be defined as those moments when households, communities, and their livelihood systems are vulnerable to climate related risks and hazards. This working paper examines critical climate stress moments due to specific climatic and biophysical causes experienced by the people in the Teesta River basin in India and Bangladesh.
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Robust air quality observations worldwide provide evidence that poor air quality can have adverse impacts on human health and the environment. These data inform policy and action to mitigate air pollution. However, such data are scarce in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region (with the exception of India and China). To address the data gap, the Department of Environment (DoEnv), Nepal; National Environment Commission, Bhutan; and the University of the Punjab, Pakistan, in collaboration with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), have established real-time air quality monitoring systems (AQMSs) across Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan.
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Springs are key sources of water for millions of people in the mid-hills of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Used for drinking water, irrigation, and other domestic uses, they are considered a lifeline for both people and ecosystems and help sustain rivers and aquatic life during the dry season. This poster illustrates the components of a springshed – a set of watersheds and aquifers that integrate into a system that supplies water to a group of springs – and provides a six-step method to start the process of spring revival.
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Crop residue burning is becoming increasingly common in Nepal’s Terai region as a quick and cheap way to clear fields after cereal harvests. This practice contributes heavily to atmospheric pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, contributing to regional haze and winter fog, affecting air quality in cities, and triggering adverse environmental impacts such as rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns.
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Jholmal is a nature-based solution that can balance agricultural productivity with sustainability. It is a homemade bio-fertilizer and bio-pesticide that helps improve crop health and increase yields while reducing the cost of production and use of harmful chemicals.
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The Far Eastern Himalayan Landscape is spread across the ecologically diverse and geologically fragile hill and mountain tracts of northwest Yunnan of China, northeast India, and northern Myanmar. It is home to more than 20 ethnic communities and their diverse traditions, languages, and cultures.
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With water scarcity placing food and nutrition security at peril, mountain farmers have to adopt water management and efficient use practices such as rainwater harvesting, water collection ponds (soil cement tanks, plastic-lined ponds), drip irrigation, and mulching. These technologies are scientifically tested, low-cost, simple, and gender-responsive solutions that can be easily replicated and scaled out.
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The Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System (RDMOS) is an operational service which produces reliable drought indicators for the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region with a specific focus on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan. The system incorporates climatic models with suitable Earth observation data and land surface models to produce drought indices – precipitation, temperature, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration – and vegetation conditions at 10-day intervals for near real-time monitoring of droughts.
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The initiative at ICMOD work with regional experts and partners to improve understanding of cryosphere change across the HKH and its impact on water resources. We collaborate with stakeholders to monitor changes in the cryosphere and address emerging issues through research and policy advocacy.
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Land cover and its change analysis across Hindu Kush Himalayan region is realized as an urgent need to support diverse issues of environmental conservation. This study presents the first and most complete national land cover database of Koshi basin prepared using public domain Landsat TM data of 2010 and replicable methodology.
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Land cover data of Greater Chittagong, Bangladesh for 2010. This dataset is created using the LandSat 30 meter spatial resolution satellite image of 2010.
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