A B Shrestha

Biographic Data

ID6821649
NAMEA B Shrestha
GIVEN NAMESA B
FAMILY NAMEShrestha
SIGNATURESHRESTHA A B
AFFILIATIONSInternational Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
ORCID0000-0002-1757-6589
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater

    Open AccessArthur Lutz, Walter W Immerzeel et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2022

  • Adaptation Strategies to Address Challenges of Traditional Agricultural Water Management in the Upper Indus Basin

    Open AccessNisha Wagle, Madhav Dhakal et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2021

    Agriculture in the Upper Indus Basin largely depends on the cryosphere, and cultivation is possible only through irrigation. The agriculture system, however, faces challenges in terms of climate, extreme events, water scarcity, and other socioeconomic conditions. Hence, a scoping review was conducted to identify the irrigation systems and coping mechanism in the 4 valleys of the basin. Centuries-old irrigation canals, water distribution, manageme…

  • HKH2Glasgow

    Open AccessNanki Kaur, Deepshikha Sharma et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2021

    In November 2021, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) met in Glasgow, UK, to deliver on the ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) worked with its regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region to ensure mountain voices were heard at COP26. To do so, we launched the HKH2Glasgow campaign. …

  • Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers

    Open AccessWalter W Immerzeel, Arthur Lutz et al.ARTICLENature2020

  • Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain

    Open AccessHester Biemans, Christian Siderius et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 4References: 7

  • Transforming the Lives of Mountain Women Through the Himalayan Nettle Value Chain

    Open AccessLipy Adhikari, A B Shrestha et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2018

    Naugad is a remote rural municipality in the mountains of far west Nepal with poor accessibility and limited economic opportunities, especially for women and marginalized communities. Promotion of the natural resource-based value chain for allo (the Himalayan nettle, Girardinia diversifolia) was identified as an innovative livelihood strategy by the local community. Value chain development started in 2014. The project was designed to focus on wom…

  • Advancing Regional and Transboundary Cooperation in the Conflict-Prone Hindu Kush–Himalaya

    Open AccessDavid Molden, Eklabya Sharma et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2017

    The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) supports regional and transboundary cooperation to meet challenges of climate change, disaster risks, and sustainable development in the Hindu Kush–Himalaya (HKH). Action to sustain the HKH has the potential to directly improve the lives of more than one fourth of the world's population. However, facilitating cooperation and policy coherence among the countries sharing HKH reso…

  • Challenges and Uncertainties in Hydrological Modeling of Remote Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalayan (HKH) Basins

    Open AccessFrancesca Pellicciotti, Cyrill Buergi et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2012

    Assessment of water resources from remote mountainous catchments plays a crucial role for the development of rural areas in or in the vicinity of mountain ranges. The scarcity of data, however, prevents the application of standard approaches that are based on data-driven models. The Hindu Kush–Karakoram–Himalaya mountain range is a crucial area in terms of water resources, but our understanding of the response of its high-elevation catchments to …

  • Focus Issue

    Open AccessM Karki, Madhav Bahadur Karki et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2012

  • Glaciers as a Proxy to Quantify the Spatial Distribution of Precipitation in the Hunza Basin

    Open AccessWalter W Immerzeel, Francesca Pellicciotti et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2012

    Accurate quantification of the spatial distribution of precipitation in mountain regions is crucial for assessments of water resources and for the understanding of high-altitude hydrology, yet it is one of the largest unknowns due to the lack of high-altitude observations. The Hunza basin in Pakistan contains very large glacier systems, which, given the melt, cannot persist unless precipitation (snow input) is much higher than what is observed at…

  • Enhancing Knowledge Management and Adaptation Capacity for Integrated Management of Water Resources in the Indus River Basin

    Open AccessM Karki, Madhav Bahadur Karki et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2011

    The Indus River Basin is characterized by downstream areas with the world's largest irrigation system, providing food and energy security to more than 215 million people. The arid to semiarid basin is classified as a net water deficit area, but it also suffers from devastating floods. Among the four basin countries, Pakistan is most dependent on water originating in high mountain catchments and is therefore most vulnerable to climatic, socioecono…

  • The Melting Himalayas

    Open AccessJianchu Xu, R Edward Grumbine et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2009

    The Greater Himalayas hold the largest mass of ice outside polar regions and are the source of the 10 largest rivers in Asia. Rapid reduction in the volume of Himalayan glaciers due to climate change is occurring. The cascading effects of rising temperatures and loss of ice and snow in the region are affecting, for example, water availability (amounts, seasonality), biodiversity (endemic species, predator–prey relations), ecosystem boundary shift…

  • Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in the Sagarmatha Region

    Open AccessBirendra Bajracharya, A B Shrestha et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2007

    Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are common natural hazards in the Himalaya. These floods, usually of large magnitude, can severely affect fragile mountain ecosystems and their limited economic activities. In this study, GLOF hazard in the Sagarmatha region (national park and buffer zone) was assessed using dam break and hydrodynamic modeling. The available data from the Dig Tsho GLOF of 1985 were used to validate many of the model outputs. T…