TY  - GEN
AU  - Gamble, Ruth
AU  - Tan, Gillian G.
AU  - Xu, Hongzhang
AU  - Beavis, Sara
AU  - Maurer, Petra
AU  - Pittock, Jamie
AU  - Powers, John
AU  - Wasson, Robert J.
TI  - Rivers of the Asian highlands: : from deep time to the climate crisis
T2  - Routledge Planetary Spaces Series
SN  - 9781032490595
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Asian Rivers
KW  - Tibetan Plateau
KW  - Asian Uplands
KW  - Himalayan River Systems
KW  - Anthropological Perspectives on Water
KW  - Climate Change Impacts
N1  - Includes Appendix, Bibliographical References and Index
N2  - Rivers 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. 

https://www.routledge.com/Rivers-of-the-Asian-Highlands-From-Deep-Time-to-the-Climate-Crisis/Gamble-Tan-Xu-Beavis-Maurer-Pittock-Powers-Wasson/p/book/9781032490595?srsltid=AfmBOoq8RYqaWvbNcrVFNORJO_Q0ycuAXN5-Y6QQY7OfXzJaTXJJ1_9q

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