Climate Change and Its Impact on Tourism in the Manaslu Conservation Area, Nepal

Anup, K C; Thapa-Parajuli, Resham

doi:10.1080/21568316.2014.933122

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“…Hanjra and Qureshi [47], KC and Ghimire [48] also observed more frequent warmer days and less frequent cooler nights throughout Nepal. Annual maximum temperature is in an increasing trend with hot summer days while minimum temperature is in decreasing trend with cool winter days [49] which is reflected by the higher variance in the month of April and December.…”

Section: Seasonal Trendsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Trend Analysis of Temperature Data for Narayani River Basin, Nepal

Chand¹,

Bhattarai²,

Baral³

et al. 2019

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Study of spatiotemporal dynamics of temperature is vital to assess changes in climate, especially in the Himalayan region where livelihoods of billions of people living downstream depends on water coming from the melting of snow and glacier. To this end, temperature trend analysis is carried out in Narayani river basin, a major river basin of Nepal characterized by three climatic regions: tropical, subtropical and alpine. Temperature data from six stations located within the basin are analyzed. The elevation of these stations ranges from 460 to 3800 m asl. and the time period of available temperature data ranges from 1960–2015. Multiple regression and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) methods are applied to fill in the missing data. Annual as well as seasonal trends are analyzed and Mann-Kendall test is employed for testing the statistical significance of detected trend. Results indicate significant cooling trends before 1970s, and warming trends after 1970s in the majority of the stations. The warming trends range from 0.028 ∘ C per year to 0.035 ∘ C per year with a mean increasing trend of 0.03 ∘ C per year after 1971. Seasonal trends show highest warming trends in monsoon season followed by winter, pre-monsoon, and post-monsoon season. However, difference in warming rates between different seasons isn’t sufficiently large. An average temperature lapse rate of −0.006 ∘ C per m with the steepest value (−0.0064 ∘ C per m) in pre-monsoon season and least negative (−0.0052 ∘ C per m) in winter season is observed for this basin. A comparative analysis of the gap-filled data with freely available global climate data sets shows reasonable correlation thus confirming the suitability of the gap filling methods.

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Section: Seasonal Trendsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Trend Analysis of Temperature Data for Narayani River Basin, Nepal

Chand¹,

Bhattarai²,

Baral³

et al. 2019

Sci

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“…Hanjra and Qureshi [51], KC and Ghimire [52] also observed more frequent warmer days and less frequent cooler nights throughout Nepal. Annual maximum temperature is in an increasing trend with hot summer days while minimum temperature is in decreasing trend with cool winter days [53] which is reflected by the higher variance in the month of April and December. For the seasonal study, a calendar year was divided into four different seasons [33]; winter (December-February), pre-monsoon (March-June), monsoon (July-August), and post-monsoon (September-November) to assess the seasonal temperature trends.…”

Section: Seasonal Trendsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Trend Analysis of Temperature Data for Narayani River Basin, Nepal

Chand¹,

Bhattarai²,

Pradhananga³

et al. 2019

Sci

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Study of spatiotemporal dynamics of temperature is vital to assess changes in climate, especially in the Himalayan region where livelihoods of billions of people living downstream depends on water coming from the melting of snow and glacier ice. To this end, temperature trend analysis is carried out in Narayani river basin, a major river basin of Nepal characterized by three climatic regions: tropical, subtropical and alpine. Temperature data from six stations located within the basin were analyzed. The elevation of these stations ranges from 460 to 3800 m a.s.l. and the time period of available temperature data ranges from 1960–2015. Multiple regression and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) methods were applied to fill in missing data and to detect trends. Annual as well as seasonal trends were analyzed and a Mann-Kendall test was employed to test the statistical significance of detected trends. Results indicate significant cooling trends before 1970s, and warming trends after 1970s in the majority of the stations. The warming trends range from 0.028 ∘C year−1 to 0.035 ∘C year−1 with a mean increasing trend of 0.03 ∘C year−1 after 1971. Seasonal trends show highest warming trends in the monsoon season followed by winter, pre-monsoon, and the post-monsoon season. However, difference in warming rates between different seasons was not significant. An average temperature lapse rate of −0.006 ∘C m−1 with the steepest value (−0.0064 ∘C m−1) in pre-monsoon season and least negative (−0.0052 ∘C m−1) in winter season was observed for this basin. A comparative analysis of the gap-filled data with freely available global climate datasets show reasonable correlation thus confirming the suitability of the gap filling methods.

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“…Ecotourism potential of protected area, their role in conservation and sustainable development and impact of climate change in ecotourism are explored by various scholars (Aryal & Maharjan, 2018;K. C & Th apa Parajuli, 2014;K.C., 2016;K C & Th apa Parajuli, 2015;Nepal, 2002). But the study on the policy discourse of ecotourism in case of Nepal are greatly limited in scope and number.…”

Section: Protected Area Based Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism in Protected Areas and Appraisal of Ecotourism in Nepalese Policies

Aryal

Ghimire

Niraula³

2019

J. Tourism & Hospitality Educ.

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Ecotourism is a form of nature-based tourism. It is recognized as the sustainable alternative to the mass tourism and is executed to contribute to the protection and enhancement of various component of the environment. As environmental and cultural diversity are considered as the greatest assets to ecotourism, Nepal with high cultural and environmental diversity is prime destinations for ecotourism and other forms of nature-based tourism. Ecotourism contributes to the conservation of biodiversity as a primary source of internal funding in the protected areas. Researches on the aspects of ecotourism in Nepal were focused towards potentiality evaluation, impact assessment and the impact of climate change including others. Despite the significance of ecotourism in the Nepalese economy, research on governance aspects of ecotourism is limited. This article aims to analyze the role of government in ecotourism development in Nepal through policy-based approach. Beside this, data of visitation in the protected areas was evaluated. Tourist number in the protected area was observed to increase in a gradual fashion in response to the growing number of tourists visiting Nepal. Tourism policies of government primarily focus to increase the number of tourists in the country and fail to recognize tourism carrying capacity and environmental implication. Different tourism and other sectoral policies attempt to cover the issues of ecotourism, but, ecotourism specific policy is yet to be drafted. In addition to this, the tourism aspect is addressed by the species conservation action plan for species-level conservation within the country. In all, nine action plans reviewed, the provisions relating to tourism were found to be too general, most of them acknowledging ecotourism as a source of conservation funding but failed to define species-specific policy. A similar trend can be observed in the protected area management plan excluding the Chitwan and Banke National Park. Further study on the implementation status and formulation of new policy to address the holistic issues of ecotourism is an urgent requirement.

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Climate Change and Its Impact on Tourism in the Manaslu Conservation Area, Nepal

Cited by 29 publications

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Trend Analysis of Temperature Data for Narayani River Basin, Nepal

Trend Analysis of Temperature Data for Narayani River Basin, Nepal

Trend Analysis of Temperature Data for Narayani River Basin, Nepal

Tourism in Protected Areas and Appraisal of Ecotourism in Nepalese Policies

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