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Part I Introduction 1 Natural disasters, marginal regions and labor migration Pushkar K Pradhan and Walter Leimgruber Part II Human interference and natural systems 2 Environmental un-sustainability or the cost of civilization Walter Leimgruber 3 Climate change and health impacts on vulnerable communities: the case of kala-azar (Visceral Leishmaniasis) in Nepal Bandana Pradhan and Birgit Kuna 4 Cryosphere changes, cascading disasters, and societies – a case in Langtang valley Binaya Pasakhala, Amina Maharjan, Sabarnee Tuladhar, Arabinda Mishra Part III Geomorphological and Water issues: Nepal and Brazil 5 Urbanization and soil erosion in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Chhabi L Chidi 6 Assessing terrain hazards for sustainable human settlements in Changunarayan municipality of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Krishna Karkee, Shakti Gurung and Anish Joshi 7 River ecology services and riparian communities in the Tamakoshi River Basin, central Nepal Uttam S Shrestha and Saruna Amatya Shrestha 8 Traditional water supply systems and Sponge City Concept toward improving environmental marginalization in Kirtipur municipality, Nepal Gyanu R Maharjan 9 Everyday water use: vulnerability and resistance in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Shobha Shrestha and Devi P Poudel 10 Marginalized urban rivers: between local governance and environmental justice Ivaldo Lima Part IV Economy and society: Nepal and Southeast Asia 11 Empowerment of Dalit Women’s Groups through micro-finance and social capital in Nepal Chikako Aoki and Pushkar K Pradhan 12 Informal marketing and livelihood of marginal communities in urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Puspa Sharma 13 Farmers’ access to agriculture development services in eastern hills of Nepal: a case of the Tinjure-Milke Watershed Region Shyam P. Wagle 14 People’s accessibility and periodic markets in the Tankhuwakhola watershed, eastern hills of Nepal Shambhu P. Khatiwada 15 Human-elephant conflict impact toward marginalized community of Ulu Tembeling Jamalunlaili Abdullah and Mohd Ruzed Embong 16 Sedentarization program and everyday resistance to state intervention in Vietnam’s upland Doo-Chul Kim and Quy Le Ngoc Phuong Part V Regional policy issues 17 Accessibility and governance systems in local development: measuring marginality in the Mid-Marsyangdi River Basin, Nepal Balkrishna Baral 18 Cohesion policy in the struggle against the marginalization of the inner peripheries – Polish experience and recommendations Pawel Churski, Anna Dubownik, Czeslaw Adamiak & Barbara Szyda 19 Between two empires: the Jiftlik marginal lands in the Jordan Valley and the Jiftlik Ottoman Saraya and British Police Post 1890-1948 Rivka Yermiash and Ruth Kark Part VI Conclusion 20 Humans and nature: conflict or cooperation? Pushkar K Pradhan, Walter Leimgruber
