Annapurna Conservation Area
Nepal is a country marked by poverty and development challenges, especially in its rural highland areas where residents are primarily engaged in subsistence-level agriculture and pastoralism made difficult by short growing seasons at high altitude. Remote from concentrated population centres, road, markets and sources of capital, the inhabited areas of Nepal's Himalayan highlands are generally...
This paper describes the remote sensing technique used to prepare a land cover map of Surkhang, Upper Mustang Nepal. The latest ASTER image (October 2002) and an ASTER DEM were used for the land cover classification. The study was carried out in Surkhang Village Development Committee (area 799 km2) of Upper Mustang region. The study area falls within the Annapurna Conservation Area...
This paper investigates how households’ characteristics, in light of community forestry intervention in the Western Hill of Nepal, influence the perception of environmental quality. Two types of data were used in this study, survey data on household’s characteristics and environmental perception from 212 households and individual level survey data. It was found, taking from the...
Rogers contends that the Nyishangte (people of Manang) are a uniquely successful Himalayan community, particularly from an economic perspective. The group’s historical economic success, he suggests, “largely boils down to its embers having been fortunate opportunists who aggressively took advantage of privileges afforded hem by the central government to develop and exploit certain...
Over the past few decades there have been increasing changes in cropping systems, resource use and socio-economic conditions due to increasing population growth, technological innovation and the development of infrastructure in the Middle Mountains of Nepal. A better understanding of these changes is essential for the development of sustainable agriculture production in the region. Therefore,...
Maurice Duchene is a glacial cave explorer who presented his observations to ICIMOD on 28 April, 2009. He has been visiting caves over a number of years in the Nepal Himalayas: namely the Annapurnas, Gokyo and Khumbu regions.
His theory is that the water underneath these caves and in the glacial lakes were not just coming from the melt snow and ice, some were coming from underneath. On...
Given their unique natural attractions, including the highest mountain range in the world, the Nepalese Himalayas have long been a Mecca for trekkers and mountaineers. Nature-based tourism in the Nepalese Himalayas, however, is highly vulnerable to change in climatic conditions. This paper proposes a conceptual framework based on Jodha's mountain specificities, which include inaccessibility,...
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