PANEL 5 – CHANGING CLIMATE ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU
Convenors: Mark Aldenderfer, Hildegard Diemberger, Emily Yeh
THURSDAY 25 JULY
| 9:30–10:00 | Snowstorm livestock loss and climate vulnerability on the Tibetan Plateau
Emily Yeh
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| 10:00–10:30 | Tibetan rituals of weather-making through the worship of Tsongkhapa
Daniel Berounsky
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| 10:30–11.00 |
Tea and Coffee
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| 11.00–11:30 | Coping with floods – changing environmental adaptation strategies in a community in the Nepal Himalayas
Astrid Hovden
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| 11:30–12:00 | Grassland Degradation and Poverty Reduction under Climate Change: An Anthropological Perspective on the Source of the Yangtze River Qinghai
Fachun Du
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| 12:00–12:30 | Looking for information on environmental change in historical records: some observations on the life of Chokyi Dronma (1422-1455)
Hildegard Diemberger |
| 12:30–1:00 | Climate variability across the Tibetan Plateau during the last millennium
Jessica Conroy
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| 1:00–2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:30–3:00 | Local environmental knowledge of climate and land change within a social network of Tibetan pastoralists
Kelly Hopping |
| 3:00–3:30 | Cultural responses to monsoon changes in far western Tibet, AD 1250-1450
Mark Aldenderfer
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| 3:30–4:00 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 4:00–4:30 | Understanding Climate Change in the Everest Region of Nepal
Pasang Sherpa |
| 4:30–5:00 | Traditional ecological knowledge in non-traditional Tibetan communities: A case study in Juizhaigou National Park, China
Wendy Wright
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