Publications
"The Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) is growing at a steady pace. To date, there are 292 organisational and 2,081 individual registered users from 43 countries across the Asia-Pacific region. This shows that stakeholders are recognising more and more the added knowledge value of APMN and the impact the network can have in the wider Asia-Pacific region and beyond to connect, exchange, and...
This SARD-M synthesis report represents a pioneering study. For the first time Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Mountain Regions (SARD-M) as well as related Policies, Institutions and Processes (PIPs) in the Carpathian region are discussed together in one comprehensive assessment. SARD-M is a complementary component of the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable...
This document is the result of policy- and science driven activities stimulated through the growing recognition of the global importance of mountains. The interplay between those activities, in particular the development of the Carpathian Convention facilitated by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), together with the emergence of mountain research networks in Europe enabled the...
"Since the International Year of Mountains in 2002, the Italian Ministry of the Environment, holding then the presidency of the Alpine Convention, strongly supported the development of an international legal instrument for the protection and sustainable devel-opment of the Carpathian mountain region. An Al-pine-Carpathian partnership was established to promote an experience sharing process...
The proposed “Prokletije / Bjeshkët e Nemuna Mountains” transboundary protected area expected to involve Albania, Kosovo - UN administered territory under UN Security Council resolution 1244/99, Montenegro and Serbia is one of the three “priority areas in focus” of the ENVSEC-SEE project, identified during the 1st sub-regional meeting organised by UNEP in June 2006 in Podgorica.
The Prokletije...
The proposed “Durmitor – Tara Canyon – Sutjeska” transboundary protected area is one of the three “priority areas in focus” of the ENVSEC-SEE project, identifi ed during the fi rst sub-regional meeting organised by UNEP in June 2006 in Podgorica.
The Durmitor – Tara Canyon – Sutjeska region located at the state border between Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republic of Srpska and Montenegro encompasses...
The programme of work on mountain biological diversity under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recommends establishing regional and transboundary collaboration, and cooperative agreements for mountain ranges1, as well as establishing and strengthening adequate, effective national and regional networks of mountain protected areas.Neighbouring States, which often have...
Practically all human societies depend on the availability and use of mined products. But the expansion of mining operations into environmentally sensitive and fragile areas has increased the level of environmental destruction and the impact on basic ecosystem services and biodiversity. The mining industry has been involved in some of the most widely publicized environmental disasters. Well-known...
This paper deal with a description od a fish species, encountered during monitoring Pseudolaguvia shawi. This species has been reported from north Bengal and Sikkim and not from the other states of the region. The present record thus is a first report for Arunachal Pradesh. The paper provides a brief description on the earlier reports on the genus and also provides a detailed description of the...
The present report was prepared in response to General Assembly resolution 64/205, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its sixty-sixth session on the status of sustainable development in mountain regions. The report describes the status of sustainable mountain development at the national and international levels, including an overall analysis of the challenges...