Rock glacier Oasis
An alternative for agro-pastoralism in a changing environment in the Himalayan cold desert
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4642176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pratima Pandey (0000-0002-2951-2873, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Dehradun India), Sheikh Nawaz Ali (0000-0003-1954-0077, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences Lucknow India, corresponding author), Allen Simon (0009-0009-0580-3850, Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE) University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 188 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 585-590 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/geoj.12468 |
| OpenAlex | W4288941089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
The unprecedented climate change has catastrophic repercussions for high mountain communities and these issues need a multi-disciplinary understanding for adaptation and mitigation strategies. The limited cultivable agricultural land and pastures along with an abridged cultivation season and water scarcity, all have severely impacted local communities in the cold desert of Ladakh. The indigenous people relying on glacier and snow-melt have developed unique water management and agro-pastoralism practices and are searching for additional alternatives owing to continuous climate and lifestyle changes. People are increasingly relocating to higher valleys in search of adequate cultivable land. In this endeavour, people are found to be practicing agro-pastoral activities adjacent to the thermokarst lakes (Oasis) present on the rock glaciers. The present study is a one-of-a-kind overview of such innovative and adaptive farming strategies to encourage research towards the water storage in such features, and how long it will remain sustainable
Adaptive strategies · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Climate change · Environmental resource management · Flood myth · Geography · Glacier · Indigenous · Livestock · Pastoralism · Physical geography · Scarcity · Water scarcity · Climate change and permafrost · Cryospheric studies and observations · Ecology · Environmental Science · Forestry · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |