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.

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Latest additions to the library

Socioeconomic changes, women's autonomy and timing of first brth in a semi-urban community in Nepal - Devendra P Shrestha;

Moslem and non-Moslem fertility differences in the eastern Terai of Nepal - Shara G Neidell; Bhanu B Niraula; S Philip Morgan; Sharon Stash;

Determinants of fertility in the 1970s and 1990s in Nepal - Laxmi Bilas Acharya;

Fertility transition in Kathmandu - Ram Hari Aryal;

Tamang transitions: Transformations in the culture of childbearing and fertility among Nepal's Tamang - Dilli R Dahal; Thomas E Fricke;

Fertility trends in Nepal, 1977-1995 - Robert D Retherford; Shyam Thapa;

The global fertility transition and Nepal - John C Caldwell;

Describing Gorkha: Faskirap Saheb's mission to Gorkha, 1783 - Bernardo A Michael;

From information to formal microfinance revisited: The Himalaya Savings and Finance Company in Nepal - Hans Dieter Seibel; Uttam Dhakhwa; Heiko Schrader;

Copyright: An overview - Pustun Pradhan;

Cerebral palsy in Nepal - a cultural exploration of cosmology and disability - Rebecca Saul; David Phillips;

A geography of education in Nepal - Elvira Graner;

Nepal - then and now: A critical appraisal of the ethnography of Nepal - Dave Beine;

Human rights and refugee problems in south Asia: The case of Bhutanese refugees - Krishna P Khanal;

Making no heads or tails of the ethnic "conundrum": Scholars with European head and Nepalese tail - Krishna B Bhattachan;

A typological comparison of Nepali and Japanese - Sueyoshi Toba;

Ethnobotanical census on herbal medicine of Banke District, Nepal - Narayan P Manandhar;

Caste/ethnic composition of population of Nepal - Badri P Niroula;

Markers of (in)definiteness in Maithili - Ramawatar Yadav;

Review: Nepal agriculture perspective plan - Khadga Basnet;

Review: Never lost in Himalayan space - Mark Turin;

Forest resources of Nepal: Destruction and environmental implications - Vinod P Shrestha;

Maternal and child health status in Jirel community - Pashupati Nepal;

Nepalese perception of self - M P Regmi; G N Agrawal; Y B Karki;

The legends of 'Gayahbajya' of Patan in the Kathmandu Valley - Nutandhar Sharma;

Nepal's India policy under communist government in Nepal - Krishna Hachhethu;

Reasons of state: Exclusivist nationalism and Bhutan's foreign policy - Dhruba Kumar;

Nepal-Tibet cultural relations and the Zhva-Dmar-Pa (Shyamarpa) Lamas of Tibet - Ramesh K Dhungel;

Review: Learning Nepali the SOAS way - Mark Turin;

Selecting the most appropriate means of conserving the 55-window palace - Yogesh Raj; Hrday K Hada; Rajan Vaidya;

The fluidity of ethnicity: The case of Nepali and Newar identity in the United States - Bina Gubhaju;

Nepalese immigrants in the United States of America - Ramesh K Dhungel;

The Newars: The indigenous population of the Kathmandu Valley in the modern state of Nepal - Bal Gopal Shrestha;

The implicit mode of domination in Nepal: Fatalism and Bahunism as the main causes of underdevelopment - Yoji Kamata;

Legislative elite and the Nepalese parliament: A study of their class characteristics - Thomas Meyer; Suresh C Chalise;

A fresh look at the origin and forms of early temples in the Kathmandu Valley - Prayag Raj Sharma;

Review: Gunanidhi Sharma, Nav R. Kanel and Neelam Kumar Sharma, eds. Nepal: Missing elements in the developmental thinking - Ananda P Shrestha;

Review: Michael Vinding: The Thakali: A Himalayan ethnography - Dilli R Dahal;

Protest poetry: The voice of conscience - Ananda P Shrestha;

Jesthavarna Mahavihara of Lalitpur: History and evolution - Ranjana Bajracharya;

The function and meaning of combs in the Newar culture (Nepal) - Sushila Manandhar Fischer;

A note on some typical architectural designs of western Nepal - Dilli Raj Sharma;

Dusyanta and Sakuntala in the 1980s: Madhava Ghimire's Sakuntala Giti-Nataka - Manfred G Treu;

Language politics in Nepal - Ram Kumar Dahal;

An emic critique of Austine Waddell's 'Buddhism and lamaism of Tibet - A gross misrepresentation of the Vajrayana of Tibet' - Sridhar Rana;

Jirels, Jiri, and politics: An overview - Janardan Subedi; H Sidky; James Hamill; Ronald H Spielbauer; Robin Singh; J Blangero; S Williams-Blangero;

Mental illness in Jiri, Nepal - Mark Tausig; Sree Subedi; Janardan Subedi; James Ross; Chris L Broughton; Robin Singh; J Blangero; S Williams-Blangero;

Health and health care in Jiri - Janardan Subedi; Sree Subedi; H Sidky; Robin Singh; J Blangero; S Williams-Blangero;

Some sociocultural consequences of transportation development in the Jiri Valley, Nepal - James Hamill; H Sidky; Janardan Subedi; Ronald H Spielbauer; Robin Singh; J Blangero; S Williams-Blangero;

A brief report of some Jirel vocabulary - James Hamill; H Sidky; Ronald H Spielbauer; Janardan Subedi; J Blangero; S Williams-Blangero;