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Human land use has largely influenced today's environment from lowlands to many high mountain tops. The perceived all-pervasive imperative of development is likely to cause further major alterations and degradation of many high mountain ecosystems. Biodiversity loss and nature conservation are recognised issues, however, their relative importance in relation to development issues is low. It is...
The paper looks at conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing. It considers the 'ecosystem approach', looks at protected areas and the restoration, rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and recovery of species as well as management of invasive and alien species. The traditional knowledge of local and indigenous communities is considered. Options for sustainable use including sustainable...
The paper describes the goals and objectives for a programme of work on mountain biological diversity.
The planet Earth is able to sustain life because of the existence of water in liquid form on its surface. More precisely, the lifeforms on Earth have flourished because of the simultaneous availability of air, water and soil over large parts of the surface of this planet, which made the-production of biomass possible. Among these three planetary resources, the availability of water, in...
As the highest and most dramatic features of the natural landscape, mountains have an extraordinary power to evoke the sacred. The ethereal rise of a ridge in mist, the glint of moonlight on an icy face, a flare of gold on a distant peak - such glimpses of transcendent beauty can reveal our world as a place of unimaginable mystery and splendor. In the fierce play of natural elements that swirl...
Widespread climate changes in the distant past were larger and more rapid than those experienced during more recent historical times. For example, the cooling of the climate leading into the last "ice age", the peak of which occurred roughly 21,000 years ago, and the subsequent climate transition to a warmer, more modern world were punctuated by abrupt climate changes that were one-...
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