ecosystem
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the session "Andean communities in the face of global change" (see attachment) which Wageningen University and Research Centre propose together with Giuseppe Feola at the Resilience 2014 Conference taking place 4-8 May 2014, Montpellier, France (http...
The Ecological Continuum Project was started in June 2007 by ALPARC (Alpine Network of Protected Areas), CIPRA (International Commission for the Protection of the Alps), ISCAR (International Scientific Committee Alpine Research) and the European Alpine Programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) with the aim of maintaining or restoring ecological connectivity between important areas for...
In this report the adaptation of the inhabitants of Limi Panchayat, Humla District, Karnali Zone is discussed and the potential for development in the area assessed. The report is based on fieldwork carried out March to September 1974 and specifically provides a corpus of basic ethnographic-ecological data which can be used by planners in the government to develop this and other similar high...
This paper discusses large scale, connectivity conservation areas which interconnect protected areas. It has a special focus on the large, remaining unprotected natural areas found along the great mountain ranges of Earth. These large connectivity areas involve working with people, involve natural lands and provide opportunities for maintaining the connectedness of ecosystem processes; for...
This report provides background information and a framework for discussing mountain issues in the context of the current climate change dialogue. It synthesizes the state of current knowledge and provides an overview of the evolution and status of the global Mountain Agenda from the time it was agreed upon during the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to the United Nations Framework Convention on...
The present paper attempts to provide a picture of Himalayan polyandry on the basis of empirical information gathered through the course of a short filed study. The study was conducted in Tangin, a village in Humla District, north-west Nepal. It assumed the hypothesis that polyandry is an outcome of adaptability in the ecological setting of the Himalaya, and the present environmental...
The World Development Report 2003 addresses how to lift from poverty the three billion people now living in severe deprivation. It also explores how to improve the quality of life for everybody today and for the two billion more who will join mankind in the next thirty years. Substantial increases in growth and productivity will be necessary to achieve this goal. The current scale of economic...
The world is in the midst of an ecological explosion with devastating implications. Thousands of species of microbes, plants, and animals are being introduced, both deliberately and inadvertently, to new land areas, seas, and freshwaters. In many regions, these new colonists are running wild, disrupting the dynamics of ecosystems, pushing native species toward extinction, and causing billions...
The increasing awareness and concern of people, researchers and decision makers for the maintenance and enhancement of goods and services provided by forest ecosystems significantly widened the scope of information needs for sustainable forest management on the task-specific, integrative and strategic level. Forest resource assessments have to provide reliable, harmonised, politically relevant...
Advanced Ecological Theory is intended for both postgraduate students and professional researchers in ecology. It provides an overview of current advances in the field as well as closely related areas in evolution, ecological economics and natural resource management, familiarising the reader with the mathematical, computational and statistical...
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