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The Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) was established recognizing that international dialogue and cooperation are the best responses in addressing the various chalenges posed by environmental security. ENVSEC is a unique partnership of various international organizations and entities such as the United Nations Environment Progamme (UNEP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP...
In this interview, Dr. Bebbington covers the issue of extractive industries in mountain regions. He indicates that greener economy of the foreseeable future will inevitably involve the circulation and use of the products of extraction.
He mentions some ways to regulate extraction such that its adverse environmental impacts and risks are reduced, and its contributions to reduce...
In the late 1990s, The Mountain Institute, a small, non‐profit environmental organization began working with the Antamina Mining Company, one of the world’s largest mining companies, to help it revise its plans for a large zinc and copper mine. The collaboration produced a road design that not only protected a fragile ecosystem but was more cost effective than the fim’s original plan. This...
Hyrcanian vegetation zone is a green belt stretching over the northern slopes of Alborz mountain ranges and covers the southerncoasts of the Caspian Sea. This area stretches from Astara in the northwest to Gorgan vicinity in the northeast of Iran that covered some parts of three rovinces of Iran including: Golestan, Mazandaran and Gilan Provinces. This area has a total area of 1.85 million ha...
To understand how agriculture and poverty interact, we analysed water availability, productivity and institutions for the Andes basins. Water limits agricultural productivity in the southern basins but is plentiful in the northern basins where steep slopes or poor land and water management limit productivity. The dominance of small, steep basins results in important upstream–downstream...
In this interview, Dr. Echeverria, Director General of CIAT (Colombia), indicates that a new “doubly green” agriculture is necessary in order to continue the necessary increase in food production, biofuel and other commodities while contributing to the restoration of degraded ecosystem functions. It will be based on a multifunctional use of land that considers not only the production of...
The World Energy Assessment notes that the dispersed character of rural populations and their low commercial energy consumption result in poor capacity utilisation efficiency for transmission and distribution systems and other energy infrastructure (UNDP, 2000). As mountains cover 20% of the land surface and are home to only 10% of the human population (those living above 4000 m elevation) (...
In Chile there is a compromise legislation that allows water rights separately from the ground, generating two separate markets. Over 99% of the water rights of non‐consumptive (NC, hydroelectric use generally) belong to companies and individuals. Tinquilco, is an exception in Chile. This is a watershed that is access to the National Park Huerquehue of the Commune of Pucón, Araucanía Region,...
The term "globalization" polarizes very much, for some it is an evolution of the market for others it is perceived as a threat. What is needed is a sustainable globalization that aims at capitalizing on the nature-based goods and services. The current system fails to capture the earth assets that the livelihood, in particular, the poor people depend on. In order to manage globalization and the...
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