Hindu Kush-Himalaya Watersheds Downhill: Landscape Ecology and Conservation Perspectives

Chapter 1 Mountain Landscapes and Watersheds of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) and Their Biogeography: A Descriptive Overview and Introduction for 18 Nations in the Anthropocene

Chapter 2 The Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) Region in the Modern Global and Climate Context: Major Weather Systems, Monsoon, Asian Brown Clouds (ABCs), Digital Data/Models and Global Linkages of Telecoupling and Teleconnection all Affecting Global Human Well-Being

Chapter 3 From the Mountains and Glaciers Down to the Rivers to the Estuaries and Oceans: Another Sad Tale of 18 or so Rivers

Chapter 4 The Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) in the Global and Marine Context: Major Estuaries, Coast-Scapes, Ocean Coupling, Seawalls, over 2 Billion People and Global (Food) Security

Chapter 5 A View from Space on Poyang Lake: What We Can Already See and What It Means

Chapter 6 Effective Poyang Lake Conservation? A Local Ecology View from Downstream Involving Internationally Migratory Birds When Trying to Buffer and Manage Water from HKH with ‘Modern’ Concepts

Chapter 7 The Future of Biodiversity in the Changing Watersheds of Kashmir Himalaya, Pakistan: Conservation Challenges and Opportunities

Chapter 8 Towards a Landscape Perspective of Diseases in Plants: An Overview and Review of a Critical but Overlooked Ecology Issue in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region

Chapter 9 Showing True Change of the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region Through the Power of Photo Monitoring as a Visual Memory of Change

Chapter 10 A First-Hand Narrative Account on Tibet’s Paper Parks: How China’s Greenwashing in Tibet Flies Under the Radar

Chapter 11 Forestry Management in Nepal: An Example and a Review of Growth & Yield

Chapter 12 What It Is Like to Be a Land-Locked Nation: Some Discriminatory Examples and Details from National Watersheds of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Under the Neoliberal ‘Free Market’ Participation Paradigm

Chapter 13 Ethnobiology and Indigenous Regimes in the Conservation of Species, Watersheds, and Landscapes: Experiences and Evidences from the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Nations for a Global Application

Chapter 14 Spirituality Beats It All: A Quick Conservation Overview, Self-Organization and the Great Value of (Indigenous) Religions for Hindu Kush-Himalaya Landscapes, Its Geo-Parks, Species, Ecological Processes and Watersheds

Chapter 15 Settling the Terror of Your Mind with the Deities: About Fear, Anxiety, Inherent Chaos and Self-Doubt in Hind Kush-Himalaya Expeditions and Associated Research

Chapter 16 The Relevance and Significant Role of Mid-elevation for the Watersheds and Biodiversity Conservation in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya: The Case of Nepal in the Anthropocene

Chapter 17 Nature and Landscape Governance in Royal Times: Experiences from the Shah and Rana Regimes in Nepal Re-assembled from Literature and Interview Data

Chapter 18 Swallows and Sparrows in the Human Street-Market Interface of Urban Nepal: Towards a First Open Access GIS Data and Model Inference on the Role of Religion and Culture in Bird Distribution

Chapter 19 Pallas’s Cat in Annapurna, Nepal: What We Know Thus Far and What Is to Come

Chapter 20 Status of Otters in Nepal: A Link with Ancient Waterways and People

Chapter 21 Wildlife Diplomacy and Gifting in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Region: A Chronological History and Opinion of Nepalese Literates

Chapter 22 Birds of Nepal: Their Status and Conservation Especially with Regards to Watershed Perspectives

Chapter 23 A Governance Analysis of the Snow Leopard, Its Habitat and (Digital) Data: Who Owns Charismatic Animals and Who Drives and Uses the Agenda for What?

Chapter 24 The Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP): Towards a Success Story in Landscape Feature and Watershed Conservation Management

Chapter 25 The Forgotten Data: A Rather Short but Deep Story of Museums and Libraries in HKH and Similar Information Sources in Support of the Global Biodiversity Information System (GBIF.org) and Model-Predictions for Improved Conservation Management

Chapter 26 A Rather Short Story of Shared GIS Data Layers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: State of the Art, Justifications and Urgent Suggestions for a Sustainable Global Data Governance with Open Access and Open Source Coming to the Rescue

Chapter 27 Insect Pollinators, Threats For Survival and Ecosystem Service: An Outlook From Hindu-Kush Himalaya Region

Chapter 28 A First High-Resolution Open Access Data and Open Source GIS Model-Prediction for the Globally Threatened Sarus Crane ( Antigone antigone ) in Nepal: Data Mining of 81 Predictors Support Evidence for Ongoing Declines in Distribution and Abundance

Chapter 29 A ‘Global Change’ Eulogy, Sermons and Obituaries: ‘Everest’, its Models, the Reality, the Governmental Mis-behavior, Associated Institutional Terror and the Global Abuse of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Region

Chapter 30 “The Gods Are Angry”: A First-Hand Environmental Account and an Experience of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake in Hindsight towards a New Culture on How to Approach and Live Well with Mother Earth

Chapter 31 Hydrodams in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: Death by over 100 Cuts and 100 Blockages Built During a ‘Development Hype’ but Without a Relevant Impact Assessment or Synthesis

Chapter 32 Hydrodams Again: A Closer Look at Expensive Gharials, Lost Dolphins, Dissected Fish Migration, and Destructive Energy for Non-sustainable Mining and Societies Abroad Fueling a Non-democratic Governance for the Designed ‘ homo electricus ’

Chapter 33 Persistent Evidence for a Dramatic Decline in Langurs ( Semnopithecus spp.) in Nepal and Elsewhere: Science Data and Personal Experiences Converge On a Landscape-Scale

Chapter 34 Snow Leopards in 2100: Towards a Real-World Nepal Perspective

Chapter 35 The Fate of the Great Woodpeckers and Hornbills in Nepal: No Big Trees, No Life

Chapter 36 Poaching and Illegal Trade of Wildlife: What Do the Media Say for the Nepali-Chinese and Nepali-Indian Border?

Chapter 37 Looking at Road and Railroad Development Data in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya: Rock-Solid Impacts Created by Globalization, the World Bank and Its Affiliates, As Well as by the Great Himalaya Trail

Chapter 38 Why Do some Many Nepalis, Medical Doctors, CEOs and Hedge Fund Managers Get Sick or Die on Everest (Sagarmatha, Chomolungma)? A Review and Indicators that Capitalism Went Awful while Searching Human Dignity and Itself

Chapter 39 Small and Effective NGOs as a Role Model for Bigger Success: The Global Primate Network (Now ‘Third Pole Conservancy’)

Chapter 40 When Micro Drives the Macro: A Fresh Look at Disease and its Massive Contributions in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya

Chapter 41 Water in Mongolia: Sources, Uses and Issues, with Special Emphasis on Mining

Chapter 42 Good Citizen Science Experience Downstream of Everest Helps Monitor Status of Wetland Birds

Chapter 43 A Citizen Science Experience: Green Youth of Lumbini (GYL) Promoting Globally Threatened Bird Species (Cranes/Storks) and Holistic Landscape Conservation in the Lumbini Region of Nepal, on the Ground as well as with Social Media

Chapter 44 When Governments Cannot Do It Anymore and When Capitalism, Neoliberal Policies and Globalization Get Imposed Without Democracy: Self-Organization in the HKH Region Beyond E. Ostrom and Facebook

Chapter 45 Quo Vadis HKH? ‘Sustainable Development’ as a Horror Scenario while Climate Change, Human Population Increase and Global Conservation Decay are on the Rise Further