{"id":78,"date":"2020-06-17T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2021-04-20T21:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T01:43:14","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1>Climate Zangskar<\/h1>\r\n<h2>By the People &amp; For the People<\/h2>\r\n<h1><strong>WHY Is Our Work Essential?<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"water-towers-shirnking\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/files\/2020\/08\/water-towers-shirnking.jpeg\" alt=\"water-towers-shirnking\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\"><\/p>\r\n<p>Climate change has caused rising temperatures and shrinking of the &#8216;water towers&#8217; of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grida.no\/resources\/6699\"> HKH<\/a> (Hindu Kush Himalayan) region, that is home to 230 million people that are now facing unprecedented risks in terms of reduced irrigation water, food scarcity, and other climate-related disruptions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen Shot 2020-07-22 at 11.01.13 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/files\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-11.01.13-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2020-07-22 at 11.01.13 AM\" width=\"888\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\r\n<p>Although Zangskar has been continuously inhabited for more than&nbsp; 4000 years, aridity may have prompted villages like these ruins above Karsha to be abandoned centuries ago.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen Shot 2020-07-22 at 11.01.24 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/files\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-11.01.24-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2020-07-22 at 11.01.24 AM\" width=\"994\" height=\"559\"><\/p>\r\n<p>Now even the oldest settlements of Zangskar like Kumig are being abandoned as more and more fields are left&nbsp; fallow each year. Climate Z explores the collaborative &amp; decentralized adaptations to these risks in Zangskar region, which may provide a model for adaptation to disruptions elsewhere in the HKH.<\/p>\r\n<h4><strong>Click on Text Below to Find Out&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<h3><a title=\"Sustainability of Farming\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/why\/sustainability-of-farming\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Sustainability of Farming <\/a><\/h3>\r\n<h3><a title=\"Food Security &amp; Labor Shifts\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/why\/food-security-shifting-labor\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Food Security &amp; Labor Shifts <\/a><\/h3>\r\n<h3><a title=\"Empowering Women and Youth\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/why\/empowering-women-and-youth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Empowering Women and Youth <\/a><\/h3>\r\n<h3>Find out ways for you to be involved with our project!<\/h3>\r\n<p><a role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/you\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Get Involved! <\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Zangskar By the People &amp; For the People WHY Is Our Work Essential? Climate change has caused rising temperatures and shrinking of the &#8216;water towers&#8217; of the HKH (Hindu Kush Himalayan) region, that is home to 230 million people that are now facing unprecedented risks in terms of reduced irrigation water, food scarcity, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2278,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/climatez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}