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Thematic categories/ R&D Themes  and Policy Problem 

1. Watershed Processes and Management

1.1.

Watershed services, management and land use policy

1.2.

Domestic energy needs – options and challenges

1.3.

Improved economic and ecological viability of Himalayan farming systems

2. Biodiversity Conservation

2.1.

Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

2.2.

Protected areas – management issues and solutions

3. Environmental Assessment & management

3.1.

Climate change impacts – land and water resources

3.2.

SEA and EIA specific to the Himalaya

3.3.

Disaster mitigation and management – data bases and knowledge products

3.4.

Environmental Management of Urban areas

4. Socio-economic Development

4.1.

Sustainable tourism

4.2.

Entrepreneurship and self employment in the Himalaya

4.3.

Indigenous knowledge: traditional lifestyle, architecture and health care practices

4.4.

Migration: socio-economic and cultural implications

5. Biotechnological Applications

5.1

Biotechnological interventions in environmental rehabilitation

6. Knowledge Products and Capacity Building

6.1.

Resource materials: mountain ecology and environment

6.2.

Capacity building and technology transfer/absorption

Thematic Category/Policy Problems

Specific Activities/Projects Formulated

Deliverables/Outputs

Project Coverage/Locations

 Thematic Category 1: Watershed Processes & Management

1 Optimizing hydrological responses in a functional land use model for mid elevation Himalayan watersheds: an attempt towards water sustainability 

2 Developing sacred landscape model for eco-restoration and biodiversity conservation in the Central Himalayan region

·Structured Database on resource use status 

·Policy recommendation for alternate land use planning

·Guidelines for coping mechanisms with water stress 

·Updated hydrological models

·Decision Support System

·Development of sacred landscape model

·Approach paper,guidelines & training material

·Skill development

East Himalaya

·Sainki Watershed (Arunachal Pradesh)

Central Himalaya

·Takt Sum Chu Watershed (Sikkim)

West Himalaya

·Upper Kosi watershed (Uttarakhand)

West Himalaya

·Lohaghat (Uttarakhand)

Domestic energy needs – options and challenges

3 Energy use patterns in rural domestic sector of Uttarakhand State – issues options and Challenges

·Status report on energy use, resources and projections

·Potential and Options for alternate resources/ technologies

·Financial, institutional and market strategies

·Integrated framework on planning and management

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

Improved economic and ecological viability of Himalayan farming systems

4  Small holders farming systems: strategy for economic and environmental viability

5 Shifting agriculture: issues and options with focus on adaptive interventions to make it ecologically, economically and socially viable

 6  Scaling-up innovative resource management practices for improved livelihood in the mid-hills of west  Himalaya

7  Nematode diversity in the traditional agro-ecosystems of central Himalaya, their impact on soil health, crop growth and development of demonstration model for agro ecotourism 

·Resource information kit

·Model for degraded land management

·Micro level poverty     indicators  

·Validated technologies on livelihood security 

·Location specific management & technological packages 

·Management strategies for critical faunal species 

·Database on TEK 

·Policy brief(s) 

·Workshop proceedings

·Datasets on recommended options 

·Report on soil fertility, erosion, fodder availability, etc. 

·Training module for knowledge sharing

·Improved status adoption of innovations

·Status report on nematode diversity

·Recommendations on sustainable crop combinations/ cycling

·Augmentation of local income

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

East Himalaya

·      Arunachal Pradesh

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

Thematic Category2: Biodiversity Conservation 

Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

8  Response assessment & processing of knowledge base to serve long term management and use of biodiversity in the Himalaya – focus on representative protected sites

9  Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants in Himachal Pradesh, North West Himalaya

10  Up-scaling applicability of ex situ mechanisms for conservation and utilization of high value plant species – focusing on promotion of conservation education & capacity buildings

·Ready to use knowledge products (maps, datasets)

·User-friendly network biodiversity database for targets areas

·Alternative scenarios, models and management plans

·Best practice documents

·Policy briefs for conservation and optimal use of unique components

·Resource material & capacity building and skill augmentation

·Network of market linkages

·Database on diversity & sustainable harvest limit of medicinal plants

·Agro-techniques of selected species and quality planting material

·Conservation models for priority species

·Management plan and capacity building

·Demonstration models (ex-situ)

·Resource material

·Capacity building

East Himalaya

·      Tawang West Kameng proposed BR (Arunachal Pradesh)

Central Himalaya

·      Kanchndzonga BR (Sikkim)

West Himalaya

·      Nand Devi BR (Uttarakhand)

North West Himalaya

·    Nargu Wildlife Sanctuary (Himachal Pradesh)

North West Himalaya

·      Himachal Pradesh

 Central Himalaya

·      Sikkim

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

North West Himalaya

·      Himachal Pradesh

Protected areas – management issues and solutions

Project No 7 covers the theme

Thematic Category 3: Environmental Assessment & Management

Climate change impacts – land and water resources

11  Forest phenology based indicators on climate change using satellite Remote Sensing for ecosystem- and regional modeling

·Indicator species identification

·State-of the art approach on integrated indicators

·Framework for rapid assessment of regional climatic variability

·Regional climate scenarios

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

SEA and EIA specific to the Himalaya

12  Forest ecosystem services in the central Himalayan mountains: quantification and valuation approach

13  Strategic Environmental assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Analysis of Hydropwer projects in western Himalayan region

·Economic valuation document (forest goods and services)

·Resource material – methodological approach

·Policy brief on ecosystem services for EIA refinement

·Policy briefs for EIA

·Guidelines for formulation of management plans

·Resource training material & Book on EIA

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

North West Himalaya

·      Himachal Pradesh

Disaster mitigation and management – data bases and knowledge products

14  Stabilization of landslides through engineering and bioengineering measures in Sikkim

·Models for landslide stabilization & hazard mitigation

·Landslide treatment plan

·Status report on soil fertility

·Training(s) on disaster management

Central Himalaya

·      Sikkim

Environmental Management of Urban areas

15  Urbanization vis-a- vis solid waste management and air pollution in sprawling urban cities of Himachal and Uttarakhand Himalaya.

·Status report: waste generation & air quality

·Solid Waste Management options

·Policy recommendations

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

North West Himalaya

·      Himachal Pradesh

Thematic Category 4: Socio-Economic Development

Sustainable tourism

16  Sustainable tourism: assessing the potential of Garhwal Himalaya

·Action Plan, Strategies and an institutional framework

·Advocacy and awareness materials

·Policy guidelines

·Demonstration of -agro based enterprise development

·Medicinal, nutritional and health food based Eco-tourism products

·Training manuals & hands on experience 

West Himalaya

·      Garhwal (Uttarakhand)

Entrepreneurship and self employment in the Himalaya

17  Capacity building for entrepreneurship development  and self employment in the Himalayan region

·Refined technology packages

·Resource management models

·Resource materials (Trg manuals, posters, folders)

·Policy briefs

·Capacity building of stakeholders

East Himalaya

·      Arunachal Pradesh & other NE States

Central Himalaya

·      Sikkim

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

North West Himalaya

·      Himachal Pradesh

Indigenous knowledge: traditional lifestyle, architecture and health care practices

18 Indigenous Knowledge: traditional health care practices in rural areas of Uttarakhand, Central Himalaya

·Data sets and document on health care practices

·Documents on herbal formulations (to be networked with TKDL)

·Status report on natural availability of useful species

·Training Material on IPR

East Himalaya

·      Arunachal Pradesh & other NE States

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

Migration: socio-economic and cultural implications

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Thematic Category 5: Biotechnological Applications

Biotechnological interventions in environmental rehabilitation

19 Development of propagation protocols, multiplication and field evaluation of selected economically important plants in the Indian Himalaya

20 Assessment of microbial diversity in Himalayan soils and determination of potential applications

·Propagation & cultivation package

·Demonstration models

·New culture deposits

·Bio fertilizers for improved plant productivity

·New cultures for bioremediation

Central Himalaya

·      Sikkim

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

North West Himalaya

·      Himachal Pradesh

East Himalaya

·      Arunachal Pradesh & other NE States

West Himalaya

·      Uttarakhand

Thematic Category 6: Knowledge products and capacity building

Resource materials: mountain ecology and environment

These themes form integral part of each of the project specified under 1-20 above.

Capacity building and technology transfer/absorption