Climate Perspective of Enabling Ecosystem Resilience for Sustainability in the Indian Himalayan Region Pandey Latika1,*, Arunachalam Ayyanadar2 1Research Fellow, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, India 2Principal Scientist, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, India *Corresponding author email id: latikalata237@gmail.com
Online published on 18 January, 2019. Abstract The Indian Himalayan Region, an ecologically sensitive and biodiversity rich niche landscape, attracts greater attention of the global climatic scenario, as this landscape experiences a frequent extreme weather events, landslides and earthquakes. Studies have established that any kind of deterioration and degradation in the region will automatically affect the associated flora, fauna and human societies, as the ecosystem services provided by this region is immense to the people living in the foothills and flood plains. Climatic fluctuations have been reported to have increased the intensity and frequency of the extreme events. The impacts are so much malicious that the people are leaving the Himalayas and moving towards the plains in search of a better livelihood opportunity. As agriculture has always been the crucial part in determining the mountain economy, making the agriculture climate resilient becomes the top priority so that the Himalayan ecosystem can be sustained. Top Key Terms Biodiversity, Climate change, Climate resilience, Indian Himalayan Region. Top |