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Rivers of the Asian Highlands introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia's eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputra's highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu (upper Yangzi), which descends from the Tibetan Plateau's east through the Hengduan Mountains.
This book guides its readers through these two rivers' physical, environmental, cultural, social, and political histories before providing a multifaceted assessment of their present. It uses general and detailed insights from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, conservation, geography, geomorphology, climate science, ecology, history, hydrology, and religious studies. The rivers' stories explain how the catchments' hazards—earthquakes, landslides, floods, droughts, and erosion—interact with their energetic, hydrological, ecological, cultural, and social abundance.
This book's multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives on the rivers will interest anyone who wants to understand the rivers of this critically important region as the environment faces climate change and other ecological crises.
Contents
Introduction. River Views
Chapter 1. Mountain Rivers
1a. Gravitational Potential Energy and Stream Power
1b. Highland Origin Stories
Chapter 2. Climatic Rivers
2a. Large Floods, GLOFs and LLOFs
2b. Lu and Water
Chapter 3. Frozen Rivers
3a. Dust and Sand: Wind Action on the Tibetan Plateau
Chapter 4. Living Rivers
4a. Defining Wetlands
Chapter 5. Human Rivers
5a. Human-Fish Relations in the Highlands
Chapter 6. Agro-Pastoral Rivers (co-written by Kelzang T. Tashi)
6a. The Chuzhi (Four Rivers) (co-written by Lhamo Khyab)
Chapter 7. Territorializing Rivers (co-written by Dechen Palmo and Alexander Davis)
Chapter 8. Managing Rivers
8a. Ecological Systems Services
8b. Anti-Hydropower Protests in Sikkim
Chapter 9. States, NGOs and Rivers
9a. Fish Conservation in Yunnan
9b. Black-neck Crane Conservation in Bhutan
Conclusion. Mountain Flows: Frontiers, Borders, Equations
Appendix. River Names
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