Results 31 to 40 of about 70,954 (218)

Collaborative Modeling and Simulation to Mitigate High-Elevation Rangeland Degradation in Eastern Bhutan

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 2022
The contribution of overgrazing to high-elevation rangeland degradation is a problem across the Himalayan region, and it leads to tensions among users.
Tayan Raj Gurung   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Threshold Levels and a Climate-Sensitivity Model of the Hydrological Regime of the High-Altitude Catchment of the Western Himalayas, Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Water shortages in Pakistan are among the most severe in the world, and its water resources are decreasing significantly due to the prevailing hydro-meteorological conditions.
Adnan, Muhammad   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

Shakespeare in Chinese Cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Shakespeare’s plays were first adapted in the Chinese cinema in the era of silent motion pictures, such as A Woman Lawyer (from The Merchant of Venice, 1927), and A Spray of Plum Blossoms (from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1931).
Wu Hui
core   +2 more sources

The Heritage Buddhist Manuscripts of Ladakh Tibetan Buddhist Canons and the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The history of the earliest transmission of Indian Buddhism to Tibet in the 7th– 8thcenturies is in essence the story of the transmission of its scriptures.
Halkias, Georgios T .
core   +3 more sources

‘It Takes Two Hands to Clap’: How Gaddi Shepherds in the Indian Himalayas Negotiate Access to Grazing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article examines the effects of state intervention on the workings of informal institutions that coordinate the communal use and management of natural resources.
Agarwal Anil   +55 more
core   +1 more source

Preliminary Appraisal of a Correlation Between Glaciations and Large Igneous Provinces Over the Past 720 Million Years

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 169-190., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Nasrrddine Youbi   +9 more
wiley  

+1 more source

Artist Maria Maslennikova: the poetry of the Karelian isthmus and Himalayas in pastel

open access: yesИскусство Евразии, 2021
The purpose of the article is to identify the ideological and stylistic features of the work of the modern Russian artist Maria A. Maslennikova, who continues the best traditions of Russian culture, especially the art of St. Petersburg.
Melnichuk, L.D.
doaj   +1 more source

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
core   +2 more sources

Stress buildup in the Himalaya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The seismic cycle on a major fault involves long periods of elastic strain and stress accumulation, driven by aseismic ductile deformation at depth, ultimately released by sudden fault slip events. Coseismic slip distributions are generally heterogeneous
Avouac, J. P.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

II congress of the Russian Association of researchers of the Himalayas and Tibet [PDF]

open access: yesВосточная Азия: факты и аналитика
The article describes the II Congress of the Russian Association of explorers of the Himalayas and Tibet, created in 2019, which was held on November 28–29, 2024 at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). The authors
Bobrov V.V., Makhrov A.A.
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy