Welcome to the Mountain Forum Online Library! This Library is a collection of material focused on sustainable mountain development issues in an electronic form. It was established in 1996, with members of the Forum contributing academic articles, abstracts, features, reports, theses, bibliographic references and web resources, amongst others.

About the Library

The resources in the Library are of several types, and include full-text documents, bibliographic references, periodicals, and reference material. Each of these can be accessed by using the relevant links on the left of this page. The material in the Library is mostly in English, with some in French, Spanish and Russian as well. We hope to build the non-English language content considerably.

We encourage visitors to use the Library to its fullest potential, both by seeking out relevant material as well as by contributing their own material to the Library. You can contribute material by clicking here. It is this spirit of sharing which has given the Library its depth, and we hope that this will continue in the years to come.

New Features

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Key words have been added to each full-text document to give you more efficient search results
Abstracts of full-text documents are provided where available

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Latest additions to the library

Threats to water supplies in the tropical Andes - Raymond S Bradley; Mathias Vuille; Henry F Diaz; AAAS;

The major importance of ‘minor’resources: Women and plant biodiversity - Patricia Howard; IIED;

Bio-briquette: A potential source of biomass based energy - Shailesh Sharma;

Is there a link between gender and climate change in the HKH? - Brigitte Leduc;

Traditional management of range resources: Mountain farmers’ ecological tactics in the HKH region - Vir Singh; R D Gaur;

Phortse: Attracting tourists of special interest - Hari Krishna Uprety;

Rural tourism: An opportunity to emission traders - Hari Krishna Uprety;

Augmenting tourism in Pathibhara - Hari Krishna Uprety;

Can waste be a means of livelihood? - Hari Krishna Uprety;

An example to mountain geography: Yildiz Mountain and its tourism potential - Gülpinar Akbulut;

The role of medicinal plants in the provision of health care in Lao PDR - Claudio Delang;

Coldwater fish and fisheries in Bhutan - T Petr; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);

Potentials for tourism promotion in South Asia - Prem Manandhar; Golam Rasul;

Uttaranchal aglow: Hill state leads the way in decentralising electricity generation through traditional watermills - Anil Joshi;

Sustainable financing of Protected Areas in Cambodia - Maryanne Grieg-Gran; Derek de la Harpe; John McGinley; IIED;

Sustainable tourism in the Kaçkar Mountains National Park, Turkey - Mehmet Somuncu;

Icthyofaunal contribution to the state and comparison of habitat contiguity on taxonomic-diversity in Senkhi stream, Arunachal Pradesh, India - Lakpa Tamang; Shivaji Chaudhry; Dhrupad Choudhury;

Balitora Brucei (Gray) and Glyptothorax Telchitta (Hamilton): Two new reports for Arunachal Pradesh, India - Lakpa Tamang; Shivaji Chaudhry; Dhrupad Choudhury;

Can crops be climate-proofed? - T V Padma; SciDev Net;

Bhutan national adaptation programme of action - National Environment Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan;

The Fischer Log Arch: Rural technology at its best - Ian Snider;

Large mines and the community: Socioeconomic and environmental effects in Latin America, Canada, and Spain - Gary McMahon (eds); Felix Remy; IDRC;

Adaptation to climate change: How we are set to cope with the impacts - Hannah Reid; Saleemul Huq; IIED;

Community-based adaptation: A vital approach to the threat climate change poses to the poor - Saleem Huq; Reid Hannah;

Barriers to the institutionalisation of PRA in NGOs in Nepal - Maria Gibbon; IIED;

Making poverty reduction irreversible: Development implications of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - Steve Bass;

Keys to unleash mapping's good magic - Janis B Alcorn; IIED;

Pushing the limits of mapping and wealth ranking - Anton Simanowitz; IIED;

Participatory assessment and the twenty points of progress program: The experience from Mexico - Gary M Woller; James B Mayfield; IIED;

Public participation and GIS: Report back - Gavin Jordan; IIED;

Ensuring reflection in participatory processes - Irene Guijt; Sue Braden; IIED;

Beyond the good discussion: The issues matrix for analysing intra-communal difference in PRAP - Grace Mukasa; Geoffrey Mugisha; IIED;

Order from chaos? Making local data relevant for policy audiences - S Rengasamy; P Bala Murugan; John Devavaram; IIED;

PRA that supports local development: The experience of developing a municipal rural development plan in Tombos, Brazil - Andréa Alice C Faria; IIED;

A brief guide to training in participatory methods in the field - IIED;

Tips for trainers: Introducing the 'H-form' - a method for monitoring and evaluation - Susan Guy; Andrew S Inglis; IIED;

Walking a tightrope: Using PRA in a conflict situation around Waza National Park, Cameroon - Paul Scholte; Salh Adam; Saidou Kari; IIED;

Complementary methods to understand land-use changes: An example from the Ethiopian Rift Valley - Michele Nori; Adane Hirpa; Giovanni A Ferrari; IIED;

Strengthening community water management - Marc P Lammerink; Eveline Bolt; Dick de Jong; IIED;

An introduction to participatory action development (PAD) - Marc Lammerink; Peter Bury; Eveline Bolt; IIED;

Convincing people to pay for water: Nkouondja in Cameroon - Andrew Tayong; Christine Poubom; IIED;

Pakora in Pakistan: moving towards democratic management - Tameez Ahmad; Haider Raza; IIED;

Participatory evaluation of a community water project in Tanzania - Kate Forrester Kibuga; Simon Bibby; Alfred Sakafu; IIED;

Lessons learned by communities and the PAR team - Nepal - Raju Khadka; Laxmi Paudyal; IIED;

PAR outcomes Nyakerato in Kenya - Isaack Oenga; Pauline Ikumi; IIED;

A brief guide to organising workshops for training, orientation and exposure in participatory approaches - IIED;

Tips for trainers: But why? - Jane Banez-Ockelford; IIED;

From terms of reference to participatory learning: Using an evaluation's creative space - Joanne Harnmeijer; IIED;

Tackling difficult issues: Lessons from research in Ecuador - Jeremy M Cox; IIED;

'Say it with pictures': An account of a self assessment process in a dairy sector support project in Tanzania - Kate Forrester-Kibuga; Steve Power; IIED;