{"product_id":"rivers-of-the-asian-highlands-from-deep-time-to-the-climate-crisis-paperback","title":"Rivers of the Asian Highlands: From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth Gamble\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGillian G. Tan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHongzhang Xu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book\u003c\/i\u003e 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, which descends from the Tibetan Plateau's east through the Hengduan Mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Gamble\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior lecturer in history and environmental humanities in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is an environmental and cultural historian of Tibet and the Himalaya. She has previously worked on the Himalaya and Tibet's sacred geography and is writing a book on the environmental history of the Yarlung Tsangpo River.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGillian G. Tan\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia. Her research covers the multiple ways humans relate with their natural environment and focuses on the cultural and environmental changes experienced by nomadic pastoralists of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Her current work explores the intersections between religion and ecology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHongzhang Xu\u003c\/b\u003e is a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He specializes in transdisciplinary research and explores societal adaptation to changes through power relations, cultural values, and institutional dynamics. His focus includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mathematics and sciences, and he has additional expertise in biodiversity, water management, and Indigenous knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Beavis\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior lecturer at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She has a background in environmental geology with a focus on water. Her research explores the impacts of anthropogenic and natural processes, including land use and climate variability and change on streamflows and water quality, and the cascading consequences these have for downstream river systems, water-dependent ecosystems, and human communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePetra Maurer\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor at the Institute of Indology and Tibetology, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on the cultural history of Tibet, particularly on divination, medicine, and lexicography. She compiles the \u003ci\u003eWörterbuch der Tibetischen Schriftsprache \u003c\/i\u003eat the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Pittock\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His background includes research into the integration between management of freshwater ecosystems and responses to climate change, involving case studies from nine countries. His current research focuses on environmental governance, climate change adaptation, energy, and the sustainable management of water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Powers\u003c\/b\u003e is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and currently holds a joint position in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies and the Centre for Contemplative Studies at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. His research includes works on Buddhist epistemology and Yogācāra soteriology, Chinese government propaganda on Tibetan Buddhism, gender in Indian Buddhism, and human rights issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert J. Wasson\u003c\/b\u003e is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University and an adjunct at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. He is a geomorphologist with expertise in reconstructing landscape change over long periods, catchment processes and management, sediment and nutrient budgeting, extreme flood hydrology and its geomorphic expression and mitigation, and the impact of climate variability and change on fluvial systems. 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