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Understanding the policy contexts for mainstreaming climate change in Bhutan and Nepal: a synthesis [1]

This report is a synthesis of two Adaptation Knowledge Platform studies that sought to understand the policy contexts for addressing climate change adaptation and key conservation issues in Nepal and Bhutan. These two Himalayan countries have significant commonalities and differences. Nepal and Bhutan are both mountainous, landlocked Himalayan countries sandwiched between China and India and covering a similar landmass. Set on the Himalayan slopes, both countries are seeing tangible signs of climate change already; most notably, shrinking glaciers. The two countries have predominantly rural populations whose heavy reliance on agriculture and forests makes them particularly vulnerable to climate change.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2013
Marion Davis [2], Lailai Li [3]
Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia [4]
Tags:
Climate Change [5], Bhutan [6], Nepal [7], South Asia [8], Climate Adaptation [9], Forest Resources [10], Water Resources [11], Community Forest Management (CFM) [12]
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National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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