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Description of  Contemporary Environmental Problems in Nepal: Geographic Perspectives (Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research)

This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked countrys representativeness in thewider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable. In large part, this is because ofits extremes ofphysiographical structure- plains, hill ranges, mountainous massifs - and wide range ofaltitudinal terrains, which represent and replicate South Asian and East Asian continental conditions differing as markedly as humid tropical lowlands, sub-tropical hill ranges and temperate tosub-arctic mountainous environments. Associated forest regimes, in which deforestation and reforestation patterns have evolved in recent times, and differing densities ofsettlement and cleared agricultural landscapes in each ofthese altitudinal zones, add totheenvironmental diversity ofNepal. Associated fauna and exotic species are in various states ofendangerment especially Bengal tigers, one horned rhinos, wild elephants, crocodile, musk deer, and peasants, toname a few- so that their forested and mountainous habitats as Wild Life Reserves also deserve our attention, and are featured in this monographs remit.