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Global Hotspots of Conflict Risk between Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This work contributes to the Belmont Forum/FACCE-JPI DEVIL project (grant number NE/M021327/1), and AM is supported by a BBSRC EastBio Studentship (http://www.eastscotbiodtp.ac.uk/).
Dawson, Terence P   +3 more
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Pathways: A Concept, Field Site and Methodological Approach to Study Remoteness and Connectivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Martin Saxer was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford and received his doctorate in 2010. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Siberia, Tibet and Nepal. He currently leads a 5-year research project under the title ‘Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the
Saxer, Martin
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The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films.
Hijjas, Mulaika
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Constructing dataset of classified drainage areas based on surface water-supply patterns in High Mountain Asia

open access: yesBig Earth Data, 2020
The High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, ranging from the Hindu Kush and Tien Shan in the west to the Himalaya in the south with an altitude between 2000 and 8844 m, holds the largest reservoir of glaciers and snow outside Earth Polar Regions.
Jieyu Lu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contrasting Centennial‐Scale Climate Variability in High Mountain Asia Revealed by a Tree‐Ring Oxygen Isotope Record From Lahaul‐Spiti

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2020
Glacier response analyses in High Mountain Asia have revealed that the glaciers from the Karakoram region were in balance or thickening while most from the other regions were thinning, the “Karakoram anomaly.” It is, however, not clear whether this ...
Shreyas Managave   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Beneath the gloss of Asia’s newfound prosperity lies an unsettling reality. Rising inequality has denied the benefits of Asia’s economic growth to many millions of its citizens.
Asian Development Bank
core   +1 more source

Pond Dynamics and Supraglacial-Englacial Connectivity on Debris-Covered Lirung Glacier, Nepal

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2017
The hydrological systems of heavily-downwasted debris-covered glaciers differ from those of clean-ice glaciers due to the hummocky surface and debris mantle of such glaciers, leading to a relatively limited understanding of drainage pathways ...
Evan S. Miles   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Campylopus, a modern and successful genus!? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Campylopus with nearly 200 revised species is one of the largest genera of mosses in the world and has extremely broad geographical, altitudinal and ecological ranges.
Frahm, Jan-Peter
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