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Rivers of the Asian Highlands: From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Science)
  • Author:  Gamble, Ruth, Tan, Gillian G., Xu, Hongzhang, Beavis, Sara, Maurer, Petra, Pittock, Jamie, Powers, J
  • Author:  Gamble, Ruth, Tan, Gillian G., Xu, Hongzhang, Beavis, Sara, Maurer, Petra, Pittock, Jamie, Powers, J
  • ISBN-10:  1032490586
  • ISBN-10:  1032490586
  • ISBN-13:  9781032490588
  • ISBN-13:  9781032490588
  • Publisher:  Routledge
  • Publisher:  Routledge
  • Pages:  336
  • Pages:  336
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • SKU:  1032490586-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1032490586-11-MPOD
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Introduction. River Views

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Chapter 1. Mountain Rivers

1a. Gravitational Potential Energy and Stream Power

1b. Highland Origin Stories

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Chapter 2. Climatic Rivers

2a. Large Floods, GLOFs and LLOFs

2b. Lu and Water

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Chapter 3. Frozen Rivers

3a. Dust and Sand: Wind Action on the Tibetan Plateau

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Chapter 4. Living Rivers

4a. Defining Wetlands

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Chapter 5. Human Rivers

5a. Human-Fish Relations in the Highlands

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Chapter 6. Agro-Pastoral Rivers (co-written by Kelzang T. Tashi)

6a. The Chuzhi (Four Rivers) (co-written by Lhamo Khyab)

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Chapter 7. Territorializing Rivers (co-written by Dechen Palmo and Alexander Davis)

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Chapter 8. Managing Rivers

8a. Ecological Systems Services

8b. Anti-Hydropower Protests in Sikkim

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Chapter 9. States, NGOs and Rivers

9a. Fish Conservation in Yunnan

9b. Black-neck Crane Conservation in Bhutan

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Conclusion. Mountain Flows: Frontiers, Borders, Equations

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Appendix. River Names

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Bibliography

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