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The Sierra Nevada Alliance developed a set of surveys, conducted over six weeks’ time in December 2004 and January 2005, to assess the capacity and organisational needs of watershed groups in the Sierra. The surveys were designed to assess groups in three different categories, Alliance members, Sierra land use groups and Sierra watershed organisations. This report focuses on the Sierra...
Tourism is a business. Despite attractive brochures that advertise international understanding and exchange between local people and tourists, tourism is clearly a business proposition for those who supply tourist services and those who market these services world-wide. It is also clear that tourists themselves are more interested in relaxation, a change of scenery, and their own enjoyment...
It is often assumed that forests can contribute to poverty reduction. To achieve this objective, different approaches to improve the governance and management of forests have been explored, including community forestry and other participatory arrangements for forest management. Sometimes conflicting approaches to land classification and land use by state forest authorities and local people can...
Clear rights over resources and locally legitimised tenure regimes for managing natural resources are essential for good governance in forest areas. External efforts to change local development conditions and the goals of natural resource-dependent communities — be they attempts to link them to commodity markets as a poverty alleviation strategy, schemes for environmental services...
The Community Forestry has been the most effective means of managing common forest resources in Nepal. Besides rehabilitating degraded hills, improving environment and contributing to the rural livelihoods, community forestry is claimed to be a major means of biodiversity conservation. It is also argued that the prevalent approach of community forest management threats to the conservation of...
Nepal is promoting community-based forest management approach known as Community Forestry (CF) as a promising option to reduce environmental degradation and to fulfill the demands of basic forestry products of rural people. There are emerging concerns that whether community forestry can be used effectively to generate income and employment to help improve the livelihoods of the poor.
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This study aims to assess and evaluate the number of commercially important medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) found in the trade and explore their distribution pattern and conservation measures along the Himalayan elevation gradient of Nepal. The species data for this study are based on primary as well as secondary sources, where as elevation range data are based only on secondary sources....
The present paper provides an overview on the concepts of biosphere reserves. The biosphere reserve concept has been developed within the framework of the UNESCO’s Programme on Man and Biosphere (MAB). The paper spells out definition, objectives, characteristics, function, beneficiaries, structure and design, and criteria for the selection of Biosphere Reserves etc.
The results of this survey will help guide the Alliance in meeting certain member group needs and will serve as a measuring point to gauge relative progress over time. For example, the Sierra Nevada Alliance will use the results to identify priorities for the Community Group Support Program and to secure financial and other resources for individual programmes and efforts. The results may also...
The majority of California’s freshwater comes from the Sierra Nevada, falling in winter as a thick blanket of snow that slowly melts in spring, delivering enormous quantities of fresh, clean water to fill the state’s rivers and reservoirs in support of its cities, industry and agriculture. As the Earth’s climate warms up, more of this water will fall as rain rather than snow...
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