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The important gathering of Mountain Women in Thimphu marks the beginning of the closing of the International Year of Mountains 2002. A month after, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, one of the most mountainous countries in the world will host the great international meeting for the closing of this year of celebrations.
During 2002, mountain-related issues have been the focus...
Climatic knowledge of mountain regions is limited by paucity of observations and insufficient theoretical attention to processes within these regions. Areas where our theoretical understanding is incomplete include orographic precipitation, especially extreme events, pollutant transport and deposition, and effects of forest cover on evapo-transpiration and runoff.
Direct and indirect...
For several years, scientists have been saying that the world's climate is warming up. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) the year 1998 proved to be one of the hottest years on record (WMO 1998). If unchecked, global warming may have two affects that are of interest to us - changing of vegetation and the possible raising of sea levels and the inundation of coastal towns...
Finding an equitable balance between the demands of lowland populations and the needs of mountain communities is an increasingly urgent priority, combined with a strong need to balance productive use of forests with their protection.
This report documents the comments and case studies provided by participants around the world in this electronic conference. Themes included: mountain...
Experts and officials from the 187 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity met in Montreal, Canada from March 10-14 to assess the current status of mountain biological diversity, as well as the human pressures on mountain ecosystems. Mountains cover one-fourth of the Earth's surface and are home to one-eighth of the human population. Half of humanity relies on mountain ecosystems for...
The production and marketing of natural drugs is hindered by the confusion over who holds the property rights for living organisms (the life) and thus by the difficulty producers encounter in obtaining patents to protect their investments.
The high mountains of the world represent one of the most extreme environments on our planet. Yet they are of immense value to mankind as sources of food, fibre, minerals and water; and they are rich in a variety of living natural resources. Though mountainous regions stand above their surroundings, usually more densely populated plains, they are linked to them in numerous ways...
The convention states the need for:
- recognising that wild fauna and flora in their many beautiful and varied forms are an irreplaceable part of the natural systems of the earth which must be protected for this and the generations to come;
- conscious of the ever-growing value of wild fauna and flora from aesthetic, scientific, cultural,...
Since 1990 interest in mountains has received an impetus with the establishment of the IUCN Commission on Mountain Protected Areas and the inclusion of Article 13 (Fragile Mountain Environments) of Agenda 21 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Today there is growing awareness at policy, research and activist levels that the well-being of lowland areas is...
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