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In many societies mountains are seen as sacred places. As such, they can have a significant impact on the cohesion of local cultures and on the conservation of the environment.
Sacred mountains highlight the key role that culture plays in influencing how people regard and treat the environment as the highest and most central values and beliefs of societies and traditions around...
The problem of forests in the world may be summarized as follows. Firstly, both the quantity and quality of forests is declining. Secondly, the security of the supply of goods and services from forests is under threat. And finally, there are welfare losses borne at household, local, national and global levels due to decline of and the insecurity in the supply of goods and services from the...
Because it assumes that multiple values and worldviews exist, the political philosophy of pluralism is a compelling foundation for the design of participatory processes in natural resource management and rural development. It provides a basis for critiquing much of the public participation tradition that dates back almost three decades in many natural resource and environmental management...
Tourism and travel is the world's largest industry. It employs a tenth of the world's workforce and has an output of US $3.4 trillion. Mountains once visited only by climbers and pilgrims, have not escaped the tourist crowds. Today tourism forms the basis of the economy of many mountain regions, with uncertain consequences.
The era of mass tourism in the mountains...
As population grows and water becomes evermore scarce, the ecological protection of mountains becomes evermore vital. There are calls for a new awareness by the people of the plains of their debt to the mountains and their inhabitants.
Planet Earth is able to distinguish itself as the living planet because of the existence of water on its surface. But easily accessible freshwater...
At a time when forest issues have become a central subject of heated debate in the face of pressing environmental ills, community forestry has become an important strategy. As a result of disillusionment with the performance of the state as a resource manager, community forestry seeks to reinforce the use of forests and their trees for local rural development, based on self-management of the...
Deterioration of the physical structure of trails results from both natural processes and the forces exerted by trail users. Some studies indicate that natural degradation erodes trails more than trail users. The opposite is also sometimes true: User-caused erosion can exceed natural processes where use is heavy or soils are particularly weak.
Empirical studies have looked at...
Thirty five people, drawn from Government, NGOs, commercial companies, community organisations and intergovernmental organisations, participated in the workshop, which was organised by the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International, a regional network of NGOs under their EU funded regional eco-forestry project. Funding for the workshop came from ICCO, The Commonwealth...
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