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

All full-text documents have been formatted in a standard manner and are available for downloading in MS Word or PDF formats
All full-text documents carry mandatory information to provide credibility to the document
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

Contact the Library

If you have any questions, or have any problems in accessing or contributing material, please contact us at:

Tel: +977-1-500 3222
Fax: +977-1-500 3277
Email: library[at]mtnforum[dot]org

Latest additions to the library

How will agriculture adapt to a shifting climate? - Heidi Fritschel; IFPRI;

Protecting ecology, culture and identity in the Nepal's Himalayas - Hari Krishna Uprety;

Jordan - culture shock - Tony Howard;

What price freedom? - Tony Howard;

Mountain to mountain cooperation: Sustainable use of biodiversity, including genetic resources, in the Himal-Andes - Mountain Forum;

Hotter and drier: The West's changed climate - Stephen Saunders; Charles Montgomery; Tom Easley; NAMF;

Natural Resource Management – approaches and technologies in Nepal : NEPCAT Fact Sheets - ICIMOD;

Protocol of European Mountain Areas - Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie des Vosges;

Enhancing women’s participation in mountain tourism, prospects and challenges - Panil Kumar Upadhaya; Bishnu Raj Upreti;

Tourism for biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihood - Mingma Norbu Sherpa;

Colombian expedition Everest 1997 and 2000: Counselling in psychology - Francy Carranza;

Expedición Colombia Everest 1997 y 2000: Asesoría en psicología – informe metodologico (Colombian expedition Everest 1997 and 2000: Counselling in psychology) - Francy Carranza;

Exploring emerging governance principles: Tracing the evolution of the Alpine Convention, the Carpathian Convention and the South East European Mountain Initiative - Sabaheta Ramcilovic;

Gender considerations in environmental projects of UNDP: Case study - Doley Tshering; Gedun Dolma; Amendment to spelling of Tshering;

Facilitating Sustainable Mountain Tourism : Volume 1: Resource Book - Ester Kruk; John Hummel; Kamal Banskota; ICIMOD;

Facilitating sustainable mountain tourism : Volume 2: Resource book - Ester Kruk; John Hummel; Kamal Banskota; ICIMOD;

From local projects in the Alps to global change programmes in the mountains of the world: Milestones in transdisciplinary research - Bruno Messerli; Paul Messerli;

Vegetation mosaic around the second center of tourism development in the Uludag Mountain, Bursa, Turkey - Hülya Arslan; Gürcan Güleryüz; Mustafa Gökçeoglu;

Sustainability and success monitoring in protection forests: Guidelines for silvicultural interventions in forests with protective functions - Monika Frehner; Brächt Wasser; Raphael Schwitter; Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Bern;

Sustainability and success monitoring in protection forests: Guidelines for silvicultural interventions in forests with protective functions: Appendix 1 Natural hazards - Monika Frehner; Brächt Wasser; Raphael Schwitter; Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Bern;

Risk management and sustainable development in the mountains of Central Asia - Donald Alford;

Beehive biomass briquettes: Concept of household fuel revisited - Prabal Sen; Prasanna K Samal;

Techno-bureaucratic doxa and challenges for deliberative governance: The case of community forestry policy and practice in Nepal - Hemant Ojha;

Understanding gender - UNDP Bhutan;

Community-based ecotourism as a sustainable development option in Taita Taveta, Kenya - Nina Himberg;

High Stakes: The future for mountain societies - Panos Institute;

Mountain tourism - Nitin Chauhan;

Epistemic violence: The body, globalization and the dilemma of rights - Kenneth MacDonald;

No longer lonely at the top - David Taylor;

Mountains on the move - David Taylor;

Sustainable mountain development: Report of the Secretary-General - United Nations;

State policies and land use in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh - Golam Rasul;

Rural tourism in the Seraj Valley of Himachal Pradesh - Arun Shrivastava; Marianne Heredge;

Vegetation mosaic around the first center of tourism development in the Uludag Mountain, Bursa,Turkey - Gürcan Güleryüz; Hülya Arslan; Mustafa Gökçeoglu;

An analysis of NGO service delivery capacities in Nepal during times of conflict and uncertainty: Technical report - Alton C Byers (ed); Frances Klatzel; Brian Peniston;

Tourism: A tool for rural poverty reduction - Shalik Ram Sigdel;

Stakeholder responses to climate change in the Swiss Alps - Margot Hill;

Energy efficiency in Kyrgyzstan: High-tech and a mix of hay and clay - A joint project of Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland - Heino Meessen;

Economical and environmental impacts of tourism in Annapurna Conservation Area: A case study of Lete V.D.C, Lower Mustang, Nepal - Aneeta Gauchan;

The challenges and opportunities of amenity-led migration in the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape - Wendy Francis;

Information on mountain tourism in the ICIMOD library - Mountain Forum;

Impacts of climate changes on water resources of Nepal: A case study of Tsho Rolpa glacial lake - Narayan Prasad Chaulagain;

Ecotourism in China: Endogenous paradigms for SW China's indigenous minority peoples - John Studley;

Taita Hills biodiversity project report - B Bytebier;

Developing a sustainable eco-tourism framework for the Cordillera region of the Philippines - JP Alipio;

The Mountain Shepherds Initiative: Evolving a new model of community-owned ecotourism - Rajiv Rawat;

Impacts of climate change on water resources of Nepal: The physical and socioeconomic dimensions - Narayan Prasad Chaulagain;

An assessment of contemporary glacier fluctuations in Nepal’s Khumbu Himal using repeat photography - Alton C Byers;

The political ecology of a “Forest Transition”: Eucalyptus forestry in the Southern Peruvian Andes - Jeffrey Luzar; Ethnobotany Research & Applications;

Managing the triple roles: A study on rural mountain women’s changing routine in Nepal - Prem Krishna Manandhar;