CONTENTS: Foreword: V K Saraswat, Acknowledgements, About the Editors, Abbreviations, List of Figures, Introduction-Annpurna Nautiyal, 1. Indian Himalayan Central Universities Consortium (IHCUC)-Annpurna Nautiyal, R C Sundriyal, 2. India, G20 and Sustainable Development in the Himalaya: Opportunities, Strategies-Seshadri Chari, 3. G20 and Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Way Forward-Chintamani Mahapatra, Monish Tourangbam, 4. Sustainable Development and SDGs: Opportunities and Challenges Analysis of the Indian Himalayan Range with Special Reference to Jammu and Kashmir-Ramjit, 5. Urban Sustainability in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR): Policy Issues and Solutions-Sohel Firdos, 6. Building on the Himalayas: An Overview of Spatio-temporal Growth of Built-up Areas Across Himalayan Regions-Sunil Nautiyal, Satya Prakash, Indra D Bhatt, Ashutosh Tiwari, R K Maikhuri, 7. Relevance of Borderland Archaeology in Indian Himalayan Region (IHR)-Nagendra Rawat, Vinod Nautiyal, Rakesh C Bhatt, Manjit Hazarika, Ekta Singh, Medha Bhatt, Shreya Sarmah, 8. The Ecosystem Restolration in the Anthropocene-Nakul Chettri, 9. Economic Valuation of Forest Resources as Provisioning Services for Sustainable Development-R K Maikhuri, Sunil Nautiyal, Ramesh C Uniyal, Laxman S Kandari, Vinod K Bisht, Ashok Kumar Meena, Harendra Rawat, Vijay Kant Purohit, Ajay Maletha, Vikram Singh Negi, Priyanka Baduni, 10. Opportunities and Strategies for Sustainabled Agriculture in IHR with special Reference to Uttarakhand-P C Nautiya, J S Chauhan, 11. Enhancing Restoration of Himalayan Natural Resources Through Coupled Geospatial Technology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge-Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, Manoj Kumar Mishra, Suresh Chand Rai, 12. Livelihood Enhancement and Income Generation through Mountain Specific Technological Intervention in Central Himalaya (Uttarakhand)-R K Maikhuri, Ajay Maletha, Ravindra Singh, Vikram S Negi, C P Semwal, Girish Bhatt, Vijay Kant Purohit, 13. Strengthening Agri-enterprise for the Sustainable Development of the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR)-R C Sundriyal, 14. Biodiversity and Forest Resources in the Himalayan Region-Vikram S Negi, I D Bhatt, Sunil Nautiyal, 15. Dynamics of Climate Change and Livelihood Vulnerabilities i Indian Eastern Himalayan States-Niranjan Roy, Avijit Debnath, Sunil Nautiyal, 16. Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation in the Himalayas-Shubhra Sharma, Y P Sundriyal, 17. Climate Change and Mitigation Measures in the Indian Himalayan Region-Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal, Archana Bawari, Nidhi Kanwar, Priyanka Maiti, Sheetal Chaudhary, Rupesh Dhyani, Index.