Publications
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...
VASICA (Vision and Strategies in the Carpathian Area) is a trans-national spatial development document and a key result of the EU CADSES Carpathian Project. Similar synthetic documents have been prepared for several large cooperation areas in Europe in the last decade. The fi rst and best known of these documents was the “Visions and Strategies around the Baltic Sea, (VASAB)”, prepared in 1994,...
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...
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...
