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1 Banskota, M.; Chalise, S. R. (Eds.) 2000. Waters of life: Perspectives of water harvesting in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas. Volume II: Proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Local Water Harvesting for Mountain Households in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, Kathmandu, March 14-16, 1999. Kathmandu, Nepal: ICIMOD. 332p.
Water harvesting ; Water policy ; Institutions ; Mountains ; Households ; Watersheds ; Water supply ; Water distribution ; Irrigation water / Bhutan / China / India / Nepal / Pakistan / Himalayas / Uttar Pradesh / Garhkot / Kabhreplanchok / Cha Khola / Ladakh / Balochistan / Mustang / Ghyakhar Khola
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G570 BAN Record No: H027991)
2 Dawa, S.; Dana, D.; Namgyal, P. 2000. Water harvesting technologies and management system in a micro-watershed in Ladakh, India. In Banskota, M.; Chalise, S. R. (Eds.), Waters of life: Perspectives of water harvesting in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas. Volume II: Proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Local Water Harvesting for Mountain Households in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, Kathmandu, March 14-16, 1999. Kathmandu, Nepal: ICIMOD. pp.235-259.
Water harvesting ; Watershed management ; Case studies ; Villages ; Water distribution ; Irrigation water ; Gender ; Non-governmental organizations / India / Ladakh
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G570 BAN Record No: H028000)
3 Norphel, C. 2001. Learning from nature – By strengthening old reservoirs and creating artificial glaciers, the rural development department of Leh has provided the local population of Ladakh with more water. In Agarwal, A.; Narain, S.; Khurana, I. (Eds.), Making water everybody’s business: Practice and policy of water harvesting. New Delhi, India: Centre for Science and Environment. pp.65-67.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G635 AGA Record No: H030605)
4 Shaheen, F. A. 2016. The art of glacier grafting: innovative water harvesting techniques in Ladakh. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 8. 8p.
Glaciers ; Meltwater ; Water harvesting ; Irrigation water ; Water conservation ; Water supply ; Climate change ; Economic impact ; Environmental impact ; Social impact ; Sowing / India / Ladakh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047830)
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As a cold desert with extreme climate and limited precipitaon, Ladakh struggles to meet its irrigaon requirements. In recent years, a historical pracce of graing glaciers and a new innovave technique of building 'ice stupa' has helped communies improve irrigaon access and extend the crop calendar. This Highlight looks at how combining sound science with credible local knowledge is helping people improve climate resilience.
5 Sharma, A. 2019. Giving water its place: artificial glaciers and the politics of place in a high-altitude Himalayan village. Water Alternatives, 12(3):993-1016.
Water resources ; Glaciers ; Political aspects ; Villages ; Legal aspects ; Boundaries ; Sustainable development ; Irrigation channels ; Watersheds ; Technology ; Economic aspects ; Investment ; Social aspects / India / Himalayan Region / Ladakh / Phyang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049351)
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Jeff Malpas' concept of place as a bounded, open, and emergent structure is used in this article to understand the reasons for the differences in villagers' responses to 'artificial glaciers', or 'Ice stupas', built in two different places in the Himalayan village of Phyang, in Ladakh. Using archival material, geographic information system tools and ethnographic research, this study reveals how Phyang as a village is constituted by interacting ecological-technical, socio-symbolic, and bureaucratic-legal boundaries. It is observed that technologies such as land revenue records, and cadastral maps, introduced in previous processes of imperialist state formation, continue to inform water politics in this Himalayan region. It is further demonstrated how this politics is framed within the village of Phyang, but also shifts its boundaries to create the physical, discursive, and symbolic space necessary for projects like the Ice stupa to emerge. By examining the conflict through the lens of place, it is possible to identify the competing discursive frames employed by different stakeholders to legitimise their own projects for developing the arid area (or Thang) where the contested Ice stupa is located. Such an analysis allows critical water scholarship to understand both how places allow hydrosocial relationships to emerge, and how competing representations of place portray these relationships. Understanding the role of place in the constitution of hydrosocial relationships allows for a more nuanced appraisal of the challenges and opportunities inherent in negotiating development interventions aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change. It is also recommended that scholars studying primarily the institutional dimensions of community-managed resource regimes consider the impact on these institutions of technological artefacts such as the high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes used to construct the Ice stupas.
6 Datey, A.; Bali, B.; Bhatia, N.; Khamrang, L.; Kim, S. M. 2023. A gendered lens for building climate resilience: narratives from women in informal work in Leh, Ladakh. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(1):158-176. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12667]
Climate resilience ; Gender ; Women ; Climate change ; Livelihoods ; Communities ; Households ; Policies ; Markets ; Vegetables ; Livestock ; Vulnerability ; Conflicts / India / Hindu Kush Himalayan / Ladakh / Leh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051610)
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In this paper, we critically examine the gendered impacts of climatechange related extreme events upon workers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. Climate change impacts disproportionately affect the livelihoods of women engaged in informal work like weaving from their homes and street vending. Existing research suggests that women are more likely to be among the most vulnerable in such extreme events as well as are vital agents to develop climate resilience within their communities. We draw upon unique quantitative and qualitative data to critically examine the lived experiences of female informal workers from Leh, Ladakh (India). Drawing on the work of Duchek (2020), we explore how women informal workers navigate their daily strategies of anticipating, coping, and adapting toward climate change. From this analysis, we offer novel empirical evidence about gendered climate resilience and suggest broad recommendations for building climate resilience within mountain communities.
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