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1	Conservation for survival: a conservation strategy for resource self-sufficiency in the Khumbu region of Nepal Sherpa, Mingma Norbu (Paldorje) 24 May 2013 (has links) The purpose of this practicum is to develop a strategy for resource self-sufficiency and nature conservation in the Khumbu region of Nepal. The strategy seeks to ensure the prudent management and conservation of the Park so that not only the flora and fauna but also the indigenous human population may continue to live in harmony with their environment. This study examines the historical perspectives of land use, current management strategies of the Park, a theoretical supply and demand assessment of land and labour resources, and prospective problems and opportunities. The methods used in the study include a literature review, examination of published and unpublished research articles, international journals, internal reports, personal communications with persons knowledgeable in the study area and the author's own observations and experience. This study indicates that the Sherpa's spiritual commitment under a system of social and community control of resource management for sustainable use has been disrupted by internal and external political, social and economic factors. Traditional practices of land resource management are no longer in operation in the villages most affected by tourism. Despite the changes that tourism has brought about, sherpas maintain a strong identification with their culture and religion. National and international aid agencies are offering strong support and technical solutions for the reduction of the fuelwood crisis and environmental degradation. However, a broader perspective is required to solve fuelwood and food shortages; for example, the existing socio-economic realities should be incorporated into project planning. The main problem in achieving sustainable development in the Khumbu region seems to have stemmed from gaps in government legislation and lack of co-ordination between government, aid agencies, and loca1 people. It is recommended that a workable strategy be developed to confront the prevailing problems by increasing productivity of land and labour resources without destroying any aspect of the environment. Àn informed local body should be set up to co-ordinate development and conservation projects and programmes. Conservation Nepal Khumbu
2	Conservation for survival: a conservation strategy for resource self-sufficiency in the Khumbu region of Nepal Sherpa, Mingma Norbu (Paldorje) 24 May 2013 (has links) The purpose of this practicum is to develop a strategy for resource self-sufficiency and nature conservation in the Khumbu region of Nepal. The strategy seeks to ensure the prudent management and conservation of the Park so that not only the flora and fauna but also the indigenous human population may continue to live in harmony with their environment. This study examines the historical perspectives of land use, current management strategies of the Park, a theoretical supply and demand assessment of land and labour resources, and prospective problems and opportunities. The methods used in the study include a literature review, examination of published and unpublished research articles, international journals, internal reports, personal communications with persons knowledgeable in the study area and the author's own observations and experience. This study indicates that the Sherpa's spiritual commitment under a system of social and community control of resource management for sustainable use has been disrupted by internal and external political, social and economic factors. Traditional practices of land resource management are no longer in operation in the villages most affected by tourism. Despite the changes that tourism has brought about, sherpas maintain a strong identification with their culture and religion. National and international aid agencies are offering strong support and technical solutions for the reduction of the fuelwood crisis and environmental degradation. However, a broader perspective is required to solve fuelwood and food shortages; for example, the existing socio-economic realities should be incorporated into project planning. The main problem in achieving sustainable development in the Khumbu region seems to have stemmed from gaps in government legislation and lack of co-ordination between government, aid agencies, and loca1 people. It is recommended that a workable strategy be developed to confront the prevailing problems by increasing productivity of land and labour resources without destroying any aspect of the environment. Àn informed local body should be set up to co-ordinate development and conservation projects and programmes. Conservation Nepal Khumbu
3	Downwasting and supraglacial lake evolution on the debris-covered Ngozumpa Glacier, Khumbu Himal, Nepal Hands, Kathryn Ann January 2004 (has links) In recent decades, the downwasting of several debris-covered glaciers in the Himalaya has led to the formation of large and potentially hazardous moraine- dammed lakes. The frequency of Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) events in the Himalaya has steadily increased since the 1970s and as global temperatures continue to rise this trend is set to continue in the future. Downwasting of the debris-covered Ngozumpa Glacier in the Khumbu Himal, Nepal, has resulted in the abandonment of the lateral and terminal moraine crests, leaving them standing several tens of metres above the glacier surface. The moraines have exerted a control on the drainage of meltwater from the glacier surface and have encouraged ponding of meltwater on the glacier surface. The present study examines the evolution of perched supraglacial ponds on the Ngozumpa Glacier and assesses how the growth of these ponds affects the rate of downwasting of the glacier surface. The expansion rates of perched ponds can be rapid, up to 21,609 m ² a⁻¹, but the growth of these ponds tends to be terminated when contact is made with the englacial drainage network. The thesis documents for the first time a complete cycle of perched supra glacial pond growth and drainage and also provides direct evidence for internal ablation during pond drainage, a process that has only been inferred in previous research. The western lateral moraine has dammed back drainage from the western tributary valleys, resulting in the formation of laterally-dammed lakes. The research presented here examines the processes and rates of paraglacial reworking of the Ngozumpa moraines in order to assess the stability and longevity of the moraine dam. Approximately 1 km from the Ngozumpa terminus a large Spillway Lake has formed. Meltwater from upglacier is channelled into the lake and exits the glacier surface through an over-spill channel cut down through the western lateral moraine. The level of the Spillway Lake is thereby controlled by the height of the spillway channel through the western lateral moraine. The rate of expansion of the Spillway Lake is lower than that of the perched ponds upglacier, but as the Spillway Lake continues to enlarge and surface downwasting of the glacier surface proceeds, the lake could enter a period of rapid and unstable growth. By analogy with other glaciers in the Khumbu Rimal, it is possible that a large and potentially hazardous lake will form on the Ngozumpa within the next two decades. 551.31
4	Vivre l'Éverest : la coproduction des corps, du paysage et de l'espace propre au Khumbu népalais Paquet, Pierre-Alexandre 18 April 2018 (has links) Ce mémoire porte sur la production des corps, du paysage et de l’espace dans le Khumbu népalais, région mieux connue par les touristes nombreux qui s’y rendent sous le nom de région de l’Everest et où les Sherpas ont établi leur résidence depuis près de cinq siècles. L’analyse qui étaye cette étude puise conceptuellement dans le champ de l’anthropologie de l’environnement. Si d’un coté le paysage du Khumbu témoigne de la riche texture des pratiques traditionnelles des Sherpas, d’un autre côté le développement actuel des moyens touristiques au nom du dyptique de la conservation et du développement multiplie les agents responsables de sa production et agrège le Khumbu dans un espace balayé par le capitalisme. Ce mémoire témoigne des effets de la respatialisation du Khumbu sur la vie de ses habitants et sur leur environnement. La gestion des ressources et la propriété du sol sont des thèmes centraux à l’argumentaire. / This thesis scrutinizes the production of body, landscape, and space in the Khumbu region of Nepal, better known internationally as the Everest region, where the Sherpas people have established themselves for nearly five centuries. The analysis underpinning this study draws its concepts from the field of the anthropology of the environment. If on the one hand the Khumbu landscape mirrors the rich texture of traditional Sherpa practices, on the other hand the current development of touristic means of production and the engagement of both conservation and development initiatives multiply the total numbers of social agents accountable for its production and aggregate the Khumbu in a space swept by the capitalist mode of production. This thesis demonstrates the impacts of the respatialisation of the Khumbu on the lives of its inhabitants and on their environment. Moreover, natural resource management practices and land ownership count among the central themes in the arguments. GN 3.5 UL 2011 Sherpa (Peuple du Népal) -- Terres Tourisme durable -- Népal -- Khumbu Tourisme d'aventure -- Népal -- Khumbu Khumbu (Népal) -- Civilisation
5	Modern medicine and the Sherpa of Khumbu : exploring the histories of Khunde Hospital, Nepal 1966-1998 Heydon, Susan, n/a January 2006 (has links) The celebrated Sherpas of Himalayan mountaineering, who lived in the rugged high-altitude environment of the Everest area of Nepal, lacked Western style medical services and so iconic New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, 'hero' of Everest, built them a small hospital in 1966. He administered Khunde Hospital through the Himalayan Trust, but with substantial support, since the late-1970s, from the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation in Canada. Overseas medical volunteers assisted by local staff provided a range of outpatient and inpatient, curative and preventive services. The history of Khunde Hospital, therefore, provides a case study for the introduction of modern medicine, as Sherpas referred to Western or biomedicine, and for the implementation of an overseas aid project. In my analysis I have moved away from a binary, oppositional examination of a cross-cultural encounter and have situated Khunde Hospital in a conceptual device of 'worlds'. I argue that the hospital existed and operated simultaneously within multiple separate yet interconnected worlds, but do not privilege one discourse over another. These worlds work beyond culture, encompassing institutions, political structures and knowledge communities and were physical, social and intellectual spaces within which there were rules and norms of behaviour that structured action. In order to explore the histories of Khunde Hospital I set it within four distinct but overlapping worlds: that of Sir Edmund Hillary, the Sherpa, Western medicine and international aid. These are worlds that I have identified as being important for the questions I am looking at. My central discussion is the ongoing encounter between Sherpa beliefs and practices about sickness and modern medicine, particularly looking at the individual patient�s use and non-use of the hospital and how staff there responded. The response was neither a one-way diffusion of Western medical practice, nor a collision between the spirit-suffused system of the Sherpa and scientific biomedicine. People used the hospital for some things but not others, based on their perception as to whether the hospital was the effective, appropriate option to take. Over the years, the hospital and community became used to each other in a relationship that was in practice a coexistence of difference. Each acknowledged and could incorporate aspects of the other�s beliefs and practices when dealing with a person�s sickness, but remained separate. Using the conceptual device of worlds, however, suggests the need for this example of the introduction and spread of Western medicine to be grounded in a consideration of Hillary�s particular form of aid, the shifting discourse of international medical aid between the 1960s and the 1990s and the unique world of the Sherpa of Khumbu. All of these worlds influenced the provision of health care at and from Khunde Hospital in different ways, sometimes separately but often simultaneously, and at some times and for some issues more than others. People, place and relationships often had as much influence as - and sometimes more than - the medicine. If the key to understanding Khunde Hospital is the relationship between Sherpas and Hillary and the respect that began in a partnership on the mountains in the 1950s, then the multiple worlds of Khunde Hospital underscore the complexities of implementing Sherpa requests to build a hospital in their rugged home near the world�s highest mountain. Khunde Hospital Medicine Nepal Nepalese Khumbu Valley Sherpa Sir Edmund Hillary Customs
6	Modern medicine and the Sherpa of Khumbu : exploring the histories of Khunde Hospital, Nepal 1966-1998 Heydon, Susan, n/a January 2006 (has links) The celebrated Sherpas of Himalayan mountaineering, who lived in the rugged high-altitude environment of the Everest area of Nepal, lacked Western style medical services and so iconic New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, 'hero' of Everest, built them a small hospital in 1966. He administered Khunde Hospital through the Himalayan Trust, but with substantial support, since the late-1970s, from the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation in Canada. Overseas medical volunteers assisted by local staff provided a range of outpatient and inpatient, curative and preventive services. The history of Khunde Hospital, therefore, provides a case study for the introduction of modern medicine, as Sherpas referred to Western or biomedicine, and for the implementation of an overseas aid project. In my analysis I have moved away from a binary, oppositional examination of a cross-cultural encounter and have situated Khunde Hospital in a conceptual device of 'worlds'. I argue that the hospital existed and operated simultaneously within multiple separate yet interconnected worlds, but do not privilege one discourse over another. These worlds work beyond culture, encompassing institutions, political structures and knowledge communities and were physical, social and intellectual spaces within which there were rules and norms of behaviour that structured action. In order to explore the histories of Khunde Hospital I set it within four distinct but overlapping worlds: that of Sir Edmund Hillary, the Sherpa, Western medicine and international aid. These are worlds that I have identified as being important for the questions I am looking at. My central discussion is the ongoing encounter between Sherpa beliefs and practices about sickness and modern medicine, particularly looking at the individual patient�s use and non-use of the hospital and how staff there responded. The response was neither a one-way diffusion of Western medical practice, nor a collision between the spirit-suffused system of the Sherpa and scientific biomedicine. People used the hospital for some things but not others, based on their perception as to whether the hospital was the effective, appropriate option to take. Over the years, the hospital and community became used to each other in a relationship that was in practice a coexistence of difference. Each acknowledged and could incorporate aspects of the other�s beliefs and practices when dealing with a person�s sickness, but remained separate. Using the conceptual device of worlds, however, suggests the need for this example of the introduction and spread of Western medicine to be grounded in a consideration of Hillary�s particular form of aid, the shifting discourse of international medical aid between the 1960s and the 1990s and the unique world of the Sherpa of Khumbu. All of these worlds influenced the provision of health care at and from Khunde Hospital in different ways, sometimes separately but often simultaneously, and at some times and for some issues more than others. People, place and relationships often had as much influence as - and sometimes more than - the medicine. If the key to understanding Khunde Hospital is the relationship between Sherpas and Hillary and the respect that began in a partnership on the mountains in the 1950s, then the multiple worlds of Khunde Hospital underscore the complexities of implementing Sherpa requests to build a hospital in their rugged home near the world�s highest mountain. Khunde Hospital Medicine Nepal Nepalese Khumbu Valley Sherpa Sir Edmund Hillary Customs
7	Beyul Khumbu: Sherpa Constructions of a Sacred Landscape Skog, Lindsay Ann 01 January 2010 (has links) Khumbu, part of Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park in eastern Nepal and an UNESCO World Heritage site, is home to the Sherpa people, ethnic Tibetan Buddhists who migrated to the region more than 500 years ago. Sherpas animate the landscape with localized water, tree, rock, and land spirits, identify sacred mountains, mainly associated with the Bönpo and Tibetan yullha traditions, and some view the landscape as a beyul, a sacred place and hidden valley protecting Buddhist people and beliefs in times of turmoil and need. These beliefs protect the natural environment through religious practices and taboos against environmentally harmful behaviors and activities. Associated ritual practice, perceptions, and mythology encode Sherpa culture and beliefs in the landscape. This research contributes to discussions of place, sacred landscapes, and conservation by documenting older Sherpa residents’ constructions of Khumbu as a sacred landscape in two Khumbu villages. Interviews and participant observations reveal a socially constructed sacred landscape expressing a distinct Khumbu Sherpa identity. Sacred space -- Himalaya Mountains Environmental protection -- Nepal Sherpa (Nepalese people) Khumbu Mountains (Nepal) Himalaya Mountains Human Geography Physical and Environmental Geography
8	Der glazifluviale Formenschatz im Gletschervorfeld des Himalaya und der Versuch einer relativ-zeitlichen Einordnung / Glaciofluvial sequence of forms in the glacier foreland of the Himalayas and their chronological classification Tombrink, Gerrit 23 November 2017 (has links) No description available. 910 550 Himalaya Khumbu Himal Pangong Tso Nepal Indien Hochasien Glaziale Serie Glazifluviale Serie Gletscherschwankungen Fluvialgeomorphologie Hochgebirgsgeomorphologie Glaziologie Vergletscherung Historische Vergletscherungsstadien Rezente Gletscherschmelze Quartärforschung Holozän Klimawandel Flussformen Proglaziale Formen Gletschervorfeld Sander Himalaya Khumbu Himal Pangong Tso Nepal India High Asia Fluvial Geomorphology Glacial Geomorphology Glaciology Glaciation Glacier Historical Glacier Fluctuations Recent Glacier Melting Climate Change Quaternary Science Holocene River River forms Proglacial forms Glacier foreland Sandur Geographie (PPN621264008)
9	Kritische Analyse der Rekonstruktionen der letztglazialen Vergletscherung im Nepal-Himalaja (Himalaja Südabdachung) / Critical analysis of the reconstructions of the last glacial glaciation in the Nepal-Himalayas (Himalayan south slope) Spitzer, Elisabeth 07 February 2020 (has links) No description available. 910 550 Geographie (PPN621264008)

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