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    Rivers of the Asian Highlands

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    From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis

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    Author(s)
    Gamble, Ruth
    Tan, Gillian G.
    Xu, Hongzhang
    Beavis, Sara
    Maurer, Petra
    Pittock, Jamie
    Powers, John
    Wasson, Robert J.
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Rivers of the Asian Highlands introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia’s eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputra’s highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu (upper Yangzi), which descends from the Tibetan Plateau’s east through the Hengduan Mountains. This book guides its readers through these two rivers’ physical, environmental, cultural, social, and political histories before providing a multifaceted assessment of their present. It uses general and detailed insights from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, conservation, geography, geomorphology, climate science, ecology, history, hydrology, and religious studies. The rivers’ stories explain how the catchments’ hazards—earthquakes, landslides, floods, droughts, and erosion—interact with their energetic, hydrological, ecological, cultural, and social abundance. This book’s multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives on the rivers will interest anyone who wants to understand the rivers of this critically important region as the environment faces climate change and other ecological crises.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93993
    Keywords
    Planetary; Social; Regulated Rivers; Asian Highland rivers; river; Brahmaputra; Yangzi; braided river; Dri Chu; upper reaches; eastern Himalayan Mountains
    DOI
    10.4324/9781003392033
    ISBN
    9781040125335, 9781032490595, 9781032490588, 9781040125540, 9781003392033, 9781040125335
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Publisher website
    https://taylorandfrancis.com/
    Publication date and place
    Oxford, 2025
    Grantor
    • Deakin University - [...]
    Imprint
    Routledge
    Series
    Routledge Planetary Spaces Series,
    Classification
    Civil engineering, surveying and building
    Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology
    Hydrology and the hydrosphere
    Climate change
    Environmental management
    Social impact of environmental issues
    Environmental economics
    Environmental factors
    Natural disasters
    Human geography
    Regional geography
    Physical geography and topography
    Meteorology and climatology
    Pages
    336
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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