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The present publication aims to create awareness about potential changes and related challenges for global development. It shows that not all is doom and gloom by presenting nascent and promising initiatives at the local, national, and international level. These endeavors attempt both to face the challenges presented by climate change and to take advantage of emerging opportunities wherever...
The XXIII Olympic Winter Games will be celebrated in 2018. Three cities (“Applicant Cities”) have applied to become Candidate Cities to host these Games. In the order of drawing of lots carried out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board on 10 December 2009, the 2018 Applicant Cities are: MUNICH (GERMANY), ANNECY (FRANCE), PYEONGCHANG (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)In order to perform...
CAMP Forum 2011 is a regional event.
Presentation at CAHMDA-IV Workshop, Lhasa, 2010
Mountains also embody key global issues such as migration and urbanisation, food security, land degradation, conflicts, water supply, energy production, transport and waste management, biodiversity conservation and protected areas, extreme weather events (floods, droughts), and natural hazards. However, their physical remoteness does not mean that mountain people and their environments should be...
Background: Sustainable forest management (SFM), which has been recently introduced to tropical natural production forests, is beneficial in maintaining timber resources, but information about the co-benefits for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration is currently lacking.
Methodology/Principal Findings: We estimated the diversity of medium to large-bodied forest-dwelling vertebrates...
OVERVIEW
* Payments for Environmental Services in Mountain Areas: An Overview of the Options and Challenges for Mountain Systems and People
FEATURE ARTICLES
* Payments for Environmental Services: The Need for Redefinition? - Beria Leimona and Rudolf de Groot
* Addressing Equity and Poverty Concerns in Payments for Environmental Services
* Delivering Environmental Services in Landscapes:...
Feature Articles:
* Mountain Forum Calls for Action from Its Members
* Mountain Energy and Transport: Challenges for the 21st Century
* Mountains and Energy at the United Nations
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