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 want to share any publication, 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

A field guide to Rocky Mountain and southwest forests - John C Kricher; Roger Tony Peterson;

A field guide to Pacific States wildflowers: Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent areas - Theodore Niehaus; Roger Tony Peterson;

A comparative analysis of hydrologic responses of tropical deciduous and temperate deciduous watershed ecosystems to climatic change - James M Vose; Jose Manuel Maass;

A companion to tourism - Alan Lew; C Michael Hall; Allan M Williams;

A climbing guide to Colorado's Fourteeners - Walter R Borneman; Lyndon J Lampert;

A beast the color of winter: The mountain goat observed - Douglas H Chadwick;

55 Ways to the wilderness in southcentral Alaska - Helen D Nienhueser; John Wolfe;

100 Hikes in the inland northwest: Eastern Washington, northern Rockies, Wallowas - Rich Landers;

100 classic backcountry ski and snowboard routes in Washington - Rainer Burgdofer;

Mountains - Seymour Simon;

Mountains of northern Europe: Conservation, management, people and nature - Martin F Price;

Moving the mountain: Women working for social change - Ellen Cantarow; Susan Gushee O'Malley; Sharon Hartman Strom;

Rocky Mountain rendezvous: A history of the fur trade rendezvous, 1825-1840 - Fred R Gowans;

Science, society and power: Environmental knowledge and policy in West Africa and the Caribbean - James Fairhead; Melissa Leach;

Sustainable development strategies: A resource book - Barry Dalal-Clayton; Stephen Bass;

Sustainable development - Susan Baker;

Sustainable management of headwater resources: Research from Africa and India - Libor Jansk´y;

The epic of Mount Everest - Francis Younghusband;

The living land: Agriculture, food and community regeneration in the 21st century - Jules N Pretty;

The magnificent mountain women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies - Janet Robertson;

The protected landscape approach: Linking nature, culture and community - Jessica Brown; Nora Mitchell; Michael Beresford;

Tourism and sustainability: Critical perspectives on the developing world - Martin Mowforth; Ian Munt;

Avalanche safety for skiers and climbers - Tony Daffern;

Avalanche - Stephen Kramer;

America's mountains: An exploration of their origins and influences from the Alaska Range to the Appalachians - Clark Hubler;

All fourteen 8,000ers - Reinhold Messner;

A message from the Tatra: Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing in mountain environmental research - Wojciech Widacki; Andrzej Bytnerowicz; Allen Riebau;

A climber's guide to the Teton Range - Leigh Ortenburger; Reynold G Jackson;

Advocacy strategies and approaches: A resource manual for community advocacy and trainers in advocacy in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas - N R Subedi;

Advocacy strategies and approaches: A training of trainers manual on advocacy strategies for community-based organisations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas - N R Subedi;

Women, energy and water in the Himalayas: Project learning - Kamal Banskota; Bikash Sharma;

Forestry in the princely state of Swat and Kalam (North-West Pakistan): A historical perspective on norms and practices - Sultan i Rome;

Forestry in the princely state of Swat and Kalam (North-West Pakistan): A historical perspective on norms and practices - Sultan i Rome;

Rigged trade and not much aid: How rich countries help to keep the least developed countries poor - Oxfam International;

Education charges: A tax on human development - Kevin Watkins; Patrick Watt; Oliver Buston;

Afghanistan's crisis is far from over - Oxfam International;

Every child In school: A challenge to finance and development ministers - Oliver Buston;

The predicted climate change impacts of greatest relevance to Oxfam - J Lorimer;

Glacier melt: Why it matters for poor people - Oxfam International;

A fair deal for Albanian farmers - Oxfam International;

Where is the impact? - Oxfam International;

Education for all: Fast track or slow trickle - Oliver Buston;

Learning to survive: How education for all would save millions of young people from HIV/AIDS - Ben Phillips; Anne Jellema;

Towards ending violence against women in south Asia - Mona Mehta;

Taking stock for the future The southern Caucasus at a crossroads - David Dzebisashvili;

Scaling up aid for trade: How to support poor countries to trade their way out of poverty - Emily Alpert;

Starting on the road to recovery: Saving lives and rebuilding livelihoods after the Pakistan earthquake - Jo Walker;

Oxfam’s response to the DFID 2006 White Paper: Eliminating poverty - Oxfam International;

Le chant des sirènes: Pourquoi les accords commerciaux régionaux ando-américains sapent-ils le développement durable et l’intégration régionale (Executive summary) - Oxfam International;

Cantos de sirena: Por qué los TLCs de Estados Unidos con los países andinos socavan el desarrollo sostenible y la integración regional - Oxfam International;