environment
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...
Until the 1990s, Tibetan studies was dominated by historians, religious scholars, and philologists. The occasional anthropologist who attended these seminars usually worked in the ethnically Tibetan borderlands of Nepal and India, or among the refugee communities of South Asia. Representatives of other disciplines, notably demography, sociology, geography, economics, and political science,...
This two-week e-conference organised by ICIMOD and the Mountain Forum was conducted in two parts. In the first week the focus was on establishing how important socio-cultural settings are. The second session, under the theme of 'Bridging Gaps', turned more to questions of practice. The main interest was in approaches and tools appropriate in contexts where persons of otherwise differing...
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...
Any waste that does not go up the stake or down the drain is solid waste. It is useless, unwanted or discarded material of industrial production and consumption. Solid waste which arises in association with diverse human activities is a major threat to the sustainable utilisation of natural resources - air, water, soil, and natural scenery. Sustainable utilisation means using renewable...
Though one can visualise the environmental problems in the mountain regions in almost all countries of the world, the magnitude of the problem is very high in a mountainous and developing country like Nepal. Due to the rapid growth of population and consequent effect on over exploitation of the depleting resources, ecological degradation is taking place everywhere in the Nepal Himalaya. The...
The problems resulting from rapid urban growth, haphazard development, and general lack of planning have been apparent in the towns of the Kathmandu Valley for more than three decades. During that period, Kathmandu routinely experienced serious lack of access, deficiency of infrastructure, traffic congestion, and inadequacy of housing. These problems were compounded by the continuing damage to...
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...
The Terai, considered the granary of Nepal, is facing serious threat from siltation originating from the Churia hills mainly due to heavy deforestation together with forest and watershed degradation. Discussions with local community people revealed that no such problem existed 5-6 decades ago when the Churia forest was intact. All the forestry sector policies had recognized the Churia hills as...
Exploring the great wilderness of Alaska's Brooks Range was Robert Marshall's joy and delight during the decade between 1929 and 1939. Marshall traveled this spectacular country, from the Upper Koyukuk drainage to the Arctic Divide, making maps, recording scientific data, and exalting in the beauty of that incredibly pristine landscape. Although his early death at thirty-eight ended an...
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