Natural hazards versus climate change and their potential impacts in the dry, northern Himalayas: focus on the upper Kali Gandaki (Mustang District, Nepal)

• Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Fort, Monique
• Other Authors: Pôle de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique (PRODIG), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4)-AgroParisTech-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: Climate change; Natural hazards; Mustang District; Himalayas of Nepal; Arid uplands; geo; envir; Kali; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-014-3087-y; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201550/file/14-Fort%20Mustang%20EES%2012665-014-3087-y.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201550

Special Issue : Sustainable Water Management in Central Asia . International audience In the Himalayas, the consequences of climate change are a fairly debated issue, mainly questioning the availability of water resources to the lowland population. North of the monsoon Himalayas, a semi-arid, contin...