Marcus Nüsser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Nüsser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Nüsser |
| SIGNATURE | NÜSSER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8626-8336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adaptation to climate change induced water stress in major glacierized mountain regions
Mountains are a critical source of water. Cryospheric and hydrological changes in combination with socio-economic development are threatening downstream water security triggering the need for effective adaptation responses. Here, we present a global systematic review (83 peer-reviewed articles) that assesses different water-related stressors and the adaptation responses to manage water stress in major glaciated mountain regions. Globally, agricul…
Focus Issue
Editorial
Contextualizing land‐use and land‐cover change with local knowledge
Rural communities in the drylands of sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) derive their livelihoods primarily from their natural resource base. Unprecedented changes in these environments over the past few decades are likely to intensify in the future and land users need to develop sustainable adaptation strategies. This study aims to identify land‐use and land‐cover (LULC) changes and their drivers in a sub‐Saharan dryland, between 1986 and 2017, by integrat…
Charcoal producers and the pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, public health measures were implemented globally. Early on, concerns grew that lockdowns and travel restrictions could have severe consequences, especially for marginalized communities in the Global South. In Sub-Saharan Africa, wood charcoal is not only an important cooking fuel, but provides income for many rural households. Despite its economic value, the charcoal sector is, however, largely unregulated and…
Wakhan Quadrangle
Review of: Wakhan Quadrangle: Exploration and Espionage During and After the Great Game. By Hermann Kreutzmann Wiesbaden, Austria: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017
Cryosphere-Fed Irrigation Networks in the Northwestern Himalaya
Irrigated agriculture is crucial for the livelihood security of mountain communities in the northwestern part of the Himalayan arc and adjoining regions of the Karakoram Hindu Kush and Trans-Himalaya. Using meltwater from glaciers, snow, and permafrost, mountain dwellers have developed sophisticated techniques to cope with recurrent water scarcity caused by glacier retreat, glacier thinning, and seasonal snow-cover dynamics. Based on case studies…
Contested fuelscapes
Universal access to sustainable and modern energy is considered key to a wide range of aspired development outcomes. Related initiatives are particularly contested when it comes to a tree‐based form of bioenergy that is used in large quantities all around the world and that ranks among the most commercialised but least regulated commodities in sub‐Saharan Africa, namely charcoal. Throughout the region charcoal is used for residential cooking and …
Socio-hydrology
MountainViews article
Nanga Parbat Revisited
Regular availability of glacier and snow meltwater is essential for irrigated crop cultivation in the northwestern Himalaya. Based on a case study from the Nanga Parbat region in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, general patterns and site-specific particularities of irrigation networks in semiarid high mountain regions are conceptualized as continuously evolving sociohydrological interactions. These interactions are shaped by an interplay of glacio-flu…
Rapid urban growth and earthquake risk in Musikot, mid-western Hills, Nepal
You are here
Securing the heights
The Siachen conflict between India and Pakistan is often referred to as the coldest war, or, the endless war atop the roof of the world. The high altitude and extreme climate create a hostile environment that has caused by far the most casualties and imposed tremendous costs on both sides. This environmental setting is usually only cited to underline the absurdity of this more than 30 year old conflict. We, however, argue that rather than being a…
Large Dams in Asia
Irrigation and Development in the Upper Indus Basin
This article deals with the development of irrigated agriculture in the Upper Indus Basin of Central Ladakh in Northern India. Artificial irrigation, fed by meltwater from glaciers and snow cover, forms the backbone of regional food production in this semiarid Trans-Himalayan environment. Following an integrated socio-hydrological approach, we present 2 local case studies on the village level and an overview of Central Ladakh based on multi-tempo…
Small-scale farming in semi-arid areas
Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Himalaya? Clean Development Dams in Himachal Pradesh, India
The carbon-offsetting scheme Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has evolved into one of the most important instruments for the funding of renewable energy projects in mountain regions in developing and newly industrializing countries. The CDM allows industrialized states to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions by investing in climate change mitigation activities abroad. These offsetting projects are intended to avoid emissions while simultaneou…
Politics of Scale in a High Mountain Border Region
Pastoral mobility in mountain environments always implicates indigenous forms of agency vis-à-vis the surrounding states with which people are interlinked, for instance through trade relations, contested border demarcations or natural resource regulations. In this paper, we analyse such interactions in terms of an ongoing 'politics of scale', that is to say a politics of the spatial dimensions structuring social life. Our case study focuses on th…
Pastoral utilization and land cover change
Management systems and changes in the intensity of pastoral utilization are widely recognized as key issues of integrated and applied research on African rangelands. The contemporary debate focuses on topics such as sustainability of indigenous range management strategies, legitimacy of transhumance, and ecological outcomes such as land cover change and environmental degradation. Classic concepts, based on assumptions of stability and equilibrium…
Siedlungsentwicklung im östlichen Hindukusch
A tangle in the triangle
Change and Persistence
The regional land use system in northern Pakistan is based on irrigated crop cultivation on valley floors, combined with animal husbandry and forest utilization in the upper altitudinal belts. Local communities subsist on this agropastoral economy to a considerable extent. Environmental conditions and the ecological risks of resource utilization are intimately linked in this high mountain region. Rapid population growth, a corresponding increase …
Impacts on Mixed Mountain Agriculture in the Rupal Valley, Nanga Parbat, Northern Pakistan
Small-scale farming in semi-arid areas
Securing the heights
The Siachen conflict between India and Pakistan is often referred to as the coldest war, or, the endless war atop the roof of the world. The high altitude and extreme climate create a hostile environment that has caused by far the most casualties and imposed tremendous costs on both sides. This environmental setting is usually only cited to underline the absurdity of this more than 30 year old conflict. We, however, argue that rather than being a…
Nanga Parbat Revisited
Regular availability of glacier and snow meltwater is essential for irrigated crop cultivation in the northwestern Himalaya. Based on a case study from the Nanga Parbat region in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, general patterns and site-specific particularities of irrigation networks in semiarid high mountain regions are conceptualized as continuously evolving sociohydrological interactions. These interactions are shaped by an interplay of glacio-flu…
Contested fuelscapes
Universal access to sustainable and modern energy is considered key to a wide range of aspired development outcomes. Related initiatives are particularly contested when it comes to a tree‐based form of bioenergy that is used in large quantities all around the world and that ranks among the most commercialised but least regulated commodities in sub‐Saharan Africa, namely charcoal. Throughout the region charcoal is used for residential cooking and …
Politics of Scale in a High Mountain Border Region
Pastoral mobility in mountain environments always implicates indigenous forms of agency vis-à-vis the surrounding states with which people are interlinked, for instance through trade relations, contested border demarcations or natural resource regulations. In this paper, we analyse such interactions in terms of an ongoing 'politics of scale', that is to say a politics of the spatial dimensions structuring social life. Our case study focuses on th…
Impacts on Mixed Mountain Agriculture in the Rupal Valley, Nanga Parbat, Northern Pakistan
Change and Persistence
The regional land use system in northern Pakistan is based on irrigated crop cultivation on valley floors, combined with animal husbandry and forest utilization in the upper altitudinal belts. Local communities subsist on this agropastoral economy to a considerable extent. Environmental conditions and the ecological risks of resource utilization are intimately linked in this high mountain region. Rapid population growth, a corresponding increase …
Pastoral utilization and land cover change
Management systems and changes in the intensity of pastoral utilization are widely recognized as key issues of integrated and applied research on African rangelands. The contemporary debate focuses on topics such as sustainability of indigenous range management strategies, legitimacy of transhumance, and ecological outcomes such as land cover change and environmental degradation. Classic concepts, based on assumptions of stability and equilibrium…
Siedlungsentwicklung im östlichen Hindukusch
A tangle in the triangle
Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Himalaya? Clean Development Dams in Himachal Pradesh, India
The carbon-offsetting scheme Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has evolved into one of the most important instruments for the funding of renewable energy projects in mountain regions in developing and newly industrializing countries. The CDM allows industrialized states to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions by investing in climate change mitigation activities abroad. These offsetting projects are intended to avoid emissions while simultaneou…
Politics of Scale in a High Mountain Border Region
Pastoral mobility in mountain environments always implicates indigenous forms of agency vis-à-vis the surrounding states with which people are interlinked, for instance through trade relations, contested border demarcations or natural resource regulations. In this paper, we analyse such interactions in terms of an ongoing 'politics of scale', that is to say a politics of the spatial dimensions structuring social life. Our case study focuses on th…
Irrigation and Development in the Upper Indus Basin
This article deals with the development of irrigated agriculture in the Upper Indus Basin of Central Ladakh in Northern India. Artificial irrigation, fed by meltwater from glaciers and snow cover, forms the backbone of regional food production in this semiarid Trans-Himalayan environment. Following an integrated socio-hydrological approach, we present 2 local case studies on the village level and an overview of Central Ladakh based on multi-tempo…
Small-scale farming in semi-arid areas
Large Dams in Asia
Rapid urban growth and earthquake risk in Musikot, mid-western Hills, Nepal
You are here
Securing the heights
The Siachen conflict between India and Pakistan is often referred to as the coldest war, or, the endless war atop the roof of the world. The high altitude and extreme climate create a hostile environment that has caused by far the most casualties and imposed tremendous costs on both sides. This environmental setting is usually only cited to underline the absurdity of this more than 30 year old conflict. We, however, argue that rather than being a…
Nanga Parbat Revisited
Regular availability of glacier and snow meltwater is essential for irrigated crop cultivation in the northwestern Himalaya. Based on a case study from the Nanga Parbat region in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, general patterns and site-specific particularities of irrigation networks in semiarid high mountain regions are conceptualized as continuously evolving sociohydrological interactions. These interactions are shaped by an interplay of glacio-flu…
Socio-hydrology
MountainViews article
Wakhan Quadrangle
Review of: Wakhan Quadrangle: Exploration and Espionage During and After the Great Game. By Hermann Kreutzmann Wiesbaden, Austria: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017
Cryosphere-Fed Irrigation Networks in the Northwestern Himalaya
Irrigated agriculture is crucial for the livelihood security of mountain communities in the northwestern part of the Himalayan arc and adjoining regions of the Karakoram Hindu Kush and Trans-Himalaya. Using meltwater from glaciers, snow, and permafrost, mountain dwellers have developed sophisticated techniques to cope with recurrent water scarcity caused by glacier retreat, glacier thinning, and seasonal snow-cover dynamics. Based on case studies…
Contested fuelscapes
Universal access to sustainable and modern energy is considered key to a wide range of aspired development outcomes. Related initiatives are particularly contested when it comes to a tree‐based form of bioenergy that is used in large quantities all around the world and that ranks among the most commercialised but least regulated commodities in sub‐Saharan Africa, namely charcoal. Throughout the region charcoal is used for residential cooking and …
Contextualizing land‐use and land‐cover change with local knowledge
Rural communities in the drylands of sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) derive their livelihoods primarily from their natural resource base. Unprecedented changes in these environments over the past few decades are likely to intensify in the future and land users need to develop sustainable adaptation strategies. This study aims to identify land‐use and land‐cover (LULC) changes and their drivers in a sub‐Saharan dryland, between 1986 and 2017, by integrat…
Charcoal producers and the pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, public health measures were implemented globally. Early on, concerns grew that lockdowns and travel restrictions could have severe consequences, especially for marginalized communities in the Global South. In Sub-Saharan Africa, wood charcoal is not only an important cooking fuel, but provides income for many rural households. Despite its economic value, the charcoal sector is, however, largely unregulated and…
Adaptation to climate change induced water stress in major glacierized mountain regions
Mountains are a critical source of water. Cryospheric and hydrological changes in combination with socio-economic development are threatening downstream water security triggering the need for effective adaptation responses. Here, we present a global systematic review (83 peer-reviewed articles) that assesses different water-related stressors and the adaptation responses to manage water stress in major glaciated mountain regions. Globally, agricul…
Focus Issue
Editorial
Geography (22 works) · Environmental Science (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Physical geography (6 works) · Business (5 works)