• Shyamoli Sen
• Nitasha Malhotra

The Himalayan glaciers are the water towers of Asia, and the source of many of the world's great rivers. Over a billion people depend directly on the Himalayas for their survival on this most fragile mountain landscape. Climate change in the Himalayas poses a serious threat to the source of these great rivers with dire and far-reaching impacts on biodiversity, food, water and energy security. Melting glaciers pose threat in the form of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods or GLOFs. This poses direct threat to all Himalayan communities risking their existence in the region. While such uncertainties have deeply impacted the lives of Himalayan communities, yet such vulnerable communities have responded by a show of tremendous resilience in the form of adaptive coping strategies and fall back mechanisms in the form of new farming methods and agricultural techniques as well as forest cultivation measures as exhibited by different communities in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh respectively.

Climate change, Himalayas, Impacts, Sustainable Community Response

"SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO HIMALAYAN CLIMATE CHANGE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 10, page no.e460-e477, October-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2210468.pdf

"SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO HIMALAYAN CLIMATE CHANGE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 10, page no. ppe460-e477, October-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2210468.pdf