Bangladesh
With great pleasure and expectations, we would like to invite our learned and esteemed partners to actively participate in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya regional e-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD), scheduled from 4th till 24th April 2011. The e-discussion is a preliminary brainstorming session for preparing the Hindu Kush-Himalayan status report on challenges and opportunities...
This report documents different approaches to conservation of medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Bolipara union of Thanchi upazila of Bandarban hill district. This initiative involved the collection of baseline data on medicinal plants and their uses, motivating people towards the uses and practices, identification and knowledge sharing with the traditional healers,...
Review of: Pokherel, J. C.; 1996, Environmental Resource Negotiation Btween Unequal Powers. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, India.
This book attempts to build a conceptual framework on negotiation by particularly applying Roger Fisher's works on Negotiating Power. Studies on negotiation from a weak nation's perspective and strategies pursued by weak nations in enhancing power are of...
This research paper demonstrate the stories of struggles of poor women from Bangladesh, India and Nepal to protect their life, home, assets and livelihoods from water induced hazards. It provides the evidence that women living in flood areas have started to adapt to a changing climate even with limited resources, information and support. Women’s priorities include a safe place to live...
Ecotourism has immense potential to help the global fight against poverty. A WTO initiated study concluded that in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries, tourism is almost universally the leading source of economic growth, foreign exchange, investment and job creation.
Foreign exchange earnings from tourism have helped to narrow trade and foreign...
This, the first issue of Trino, a magazine focusing on adventure sports like rural trekking, mountaineering, high-altitude trekking, mountain biking and adventure water sports in Bangladesh includes articles on the following
- Buzzing Shangu
- HIV Advocacy World Tour
- Westminster Cancer Marathon
- Coral of St Martins
- Coastal...
Trino is a magazine focusing on adventure, seeking to popularise sports like rural trekking, mountaineering, high-altitude trekking, mountain biking, adventure water sports in Bangladesh.
This, the second edition of Trino, includes articles on
- Hilary Ride II,
- Land of the Thunder Dragon,
- Bike Hike Down, RideFAR Initiative,
- ...
This paper emphasises wildlife biodiversity and the management techniques and drawbacks particularly in Bhawal National Park. The park was declared a National Park in 1982; there was a great diversity of animal species at Bhawal National Park especially peafowl and jungle fowl dating back to the British era as well as the Pakistani era. But unfortunately during and after 1971 there were...
Jack Ives’ article, drawn from his new book Himalayan Perceptions, is a cautionary tale that might almost be read as a gloss on Peter Weingart’s “Moment of truth for science”. Ives begins by recounting the life and times of the “Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation,” a grossly exaggerated but convenient “theory of everything” that suited...
Seven stands were selected in different areas of the Madhupur Sal (Shorea robusta) forest to study the seasonal variation of available nutrients in soils. Soil samples were collected after every two months at two depths (top soil 0-10 cm and 10-20 cm) and their physicochemical properties were determined. The percentage of soil moisture was found to vary in different stands and pH...
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