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dc.contributor.authorGamble, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorTan, Gillian G.
dc.contributor.authorXu, Hongzhang
dc.contributor.authorBeavis, Sara
dc.contributor.authorMaurer, Petra
dc.contributor.authorPittock, Jamie
dc.contributor.authorPowers, John
dc.contributor.authorWasson, Robert J.
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-25T14:38:54Z
dc.date.available2024-10-25T14:38:54Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifierONIX_20241025_9781040125335_2
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93993
dc.description.abstractRivers 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Planetary Spaces Series
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TH Energy technology and engineering::THV Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciences::RBK Hydrology and the hydrosphere
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment::RNPG Climate change
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNF Environmental management
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH2 Environmental factors
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNR Natural disasters
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGB Physical geography and topography
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciences::RBP Meteorology and climatology
dc.subject.otherPlanetary
dc.subject.otherSocial
dc.subject.otherRegulated Rivers
dc.subject.otherAsian Highland rivers
dc.subject.otherriver
dc.subject.otherBrahmaputra
dc.subject.otherYangzi
dc.subject.otherbraided river
dc.subject.otherDri Chu
dc.subject.otherupper reaches
dc.subject.othereastern Himalayan Mountains
dc.titleRivers of the Asian Highlands
dc.title.alternativeFrom Deep Time to the Climate Crisis
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003392033
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isFundedBy9bab4ba1-2fca-4324-9818-6ebfd5c4eb72
oapen.relation.isbn9781040125335
oapen.relation.isbn9781032490595
oapen.relation.isbn9781032490588
oapen.relation.isbn9781040125540
oapen.relation.isbn9781003392033
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages336
oapen.place.publicationOxford
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