Economics of Climate Change and Household Adaptation.

      Аннотация: This book focuses only on climate change and adaptation behavior of the local Himalayan people. We all try to know and understand about climate change issues endorsed by the world community, although the people of Himalaya Nepal have been experiencing badly its attributes in terms of its events induced disastrous effects such as increasing snow melting, bursting glaciers, disturbance of monsoon cycle, fluctuating the rainfall patterns and intensity and attacks of mosquitoes in cold place. The local people have their indignity in terms of knowledge, skill, perspectives and behaviors on such undesired events for productive activity, livelihood, survival and security. Based on facts, figures and evidence, this book assesses climate change status, pattern and its undesired effects, adaptive capacity of local people and their behavior and exposure. Its outcomes will be valuable inputs to the society as well as the state mechanism for policy test and effectiveness for climate stability for our survival in next 2050.

Ключевые слова: Climate change, Household Adaptation, disasters, Global Warming and Himalayan Water Basin