1Research Associate, Task Force on Himalayan Agriculture, National Mission for Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem, Natural Resource Management Division, Indian Council for Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
2Junior Research Fellow, Task Force on Himalayan Agriculture, National Mission for Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem, Natural Resource Management Division, Indian Council for Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
3Task Force Coordinator, Task Force on Himalayan Agriculture, National Mission for Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem, Natural Resource Management Division, Indian Council for Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
*Corresponding author E-mail id: arun70@gmail.com
Online published on 8 December, 2017.
The Indian Himalayan region is ecologically fragile and globally known for its biological richness. In the recent decades, environmental concerns have raised the focus in understanding the impact of climate change on this unique ecology that has witnessed several irreversible alterations in the forest ecosystem and biodiversity rendering several species extinct and also altered the land use pattern affecting the dynamics of agriculture, energy and water resources. It is advocated that the degree of changes in these components brought about by climate change could help in establishing a pathway for climate change adaptation.
Climate change, Ecosystem, Indian Himalayan region, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Water Resources
