Varun Joshi

This special issue of the Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge has a focus on the importance of traditional knowledge in disaster prediction, forecasting, management and climate change and includes fourteen papers on studies from India. The papers include:

 It is an attempt to understand the effect of rainfall, physiography, lithology, slope and aspect, land use practices, vegetation, altitude, soil type and anthropogenic interference (e.g., road construction and settlement etc.) and other characteristics in the spring recharge zone on the water yield and water quality of the selected springs in the mid-altitudinal belt (lesser Himalaya) in western Himalaya (Uttaranchal).