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The issue of coping up with environmental uncertainties, arising from ‘climate change’ which is part of a larger set of ‘global change’ phenomena, complex on account of its having multi parametric nature and uncertainities in quantifying the parameters to sufficient precision, (Bondeau et al., 1997; Walker et al., 1999; Ramakrishnan, 1998). Added to this complexity is the less understood...
Food security for many Africans requires exploiting a wide variety of resources. People living on the coastal savanna of southern Mozambique use the landscape’s diversity to supplement domestic food production. This photo essay highlights the variety of resources used and problems faced in achieving food security in two communities in Matutúine District, Mozambique. Although the focus of essay...
In late 2007, climate change receive extensive international prominence with the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCP) and former US Vice President Al Gore being aware the Nobel Prize for their climate change work. This award focusing exclusively only on climate change, obscured the tireless research and practice of many other dedicated to linking climate change, other climate topics...
Hussaini Village is situated in Hunza valley, 145 km North of Gilgit and 45 km from Ali Abad in Central Hunza. Hunza River flows in to the east while the Karakoram Highway (KKH) passes to its west.Hussaini Village is situated on 74°52'23.42" East longitude and 36°25'29.14" North latitude at an altitude of 2556 meters (Source-GPS) above sea level. The old main village is on...
We engage in project and programme management, collect data for livelihoods analyses as entry points to development management, produce multi media including abstract paintings, photo-digital arts, designs for textiles and fabric, wall paper etc. We are also experts in project and programme management, project planning design and appraisal, radio and Tv productions, commercial jingles and...
If you are launching initiatives, campaigns, petitions, or hosting meetings in preparation for Rio+20, let the world know. Contact your Major Groups Organizing Partners (http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?menu=35) so they can list your initiatives online.
If your initiative does not fit neatly in the major groups...
The rapidly growing worldwide appeal for renewable energy implies both opportunities and challenges for mountains and mountain communities. For a Focus Issue on this topic, Mountain Research and Development (MRD) seeks papers presenting well-validated practice- and policy-oriented insights and sound analyses of the natural resources–energy nexus. The due date for submission of full papers is...
Conserving mountain biodiversity and its indigenous tribe’s cultural diversity is hard mission especially when combine with community’s seeking for modern technologies especially their new generation which they has been lost their traditional knowledge on seeking more new easiest technologies and at end they lost the last rapport with their mother land. And depending on this there is urgent...
This new issue of MRD offers insights into a range of topics relevant to sustainable development in mountains, from linking relief with development interventions to agricultural biodiversity, accessibility-related social change, oak forest management, and microclimatic conditions for alpine treeline formation. The Editorial provides useful information about MRD’s peer-reviewed sections and...
Dear Friends,
The World Water Day (WWD) comes as the CPWF is in the middle of a series of reection workshops in the basins we work in: Andes, Ganges, Limpopo, Mekong, Nile and Volta. As many of our sta and partners are currently on a reection visit to the Andes, we felt it apt to write a joint statement.
This year’s the WWD highlights the challenge related to urban water...
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