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Dr Nakul Chettri is Transboundary Landscape Management and Biodiversity Conservation Specialist with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). He has been overseeing the implementation of the MacArthur Foundation-funded landscape approach to biodiversity conservation through development of conservation corridors in the Kangchenjunga Landscape (western Bhutan,...
The International Conference on Biodiversity Conservation and Management for Enhanced Ecosystem Services: Responding to the Challenges of Global Change was held from 16-18 November 2008 at the ICIMOD Headquarters in Khumalatar, Lalitpur. The Conference was accompanied by two preconference workshops on Mountain Transboundary Protected Areas (10-14 November 2008), Linking Geodata with...
Vegetation and land cover information have been generally recognised as the basis for planning and management and for detailed habitat inventories. The design and execution of these comprehensive inventories of natural resources, coupled with scientific assessments using Remote Sensing and GIS tools, have often led to a clear definition of management priorities. Vegetation management depends...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region known as the Himalayan water tower is a life line to nearly 1.3 billion people living upstream and downstream. Environmentally, this region is a biodiversity hotspot, but one that is undergoing changes and degradation at an alarming rate. In the past, governments in the HKH region have developed numerous policies for managing and conserving the fragile...
This project involves four forest-dependent villages located in the northern part of the Indo-Myanmar range (IMR) in Senapati District of Manipur. The state’s forests are experiencing an extensive process of forest fragmentation, degradation, and outright deforestation and forest conversion. The management of the forest has suffered due to the expansion and intensification of...
Water as a good, a service or a right, is more and more frequently put forward as a major challenge in our globalised world. Water resources are being put under increasing pressure and it is necessary to address how to deal with this extra stress on the environment. When a desire for social equity, economic yield and environmental accountability are also taken into account, the problem becomes...
During 2006, InfoAndina led a meeting of the Andean Initiative (AI) of the Mountain Partnership (MP) held in Lima. This meeting was attended by representatives from the Initiative’s member countries, as well as from the Main Groups. The meeting was jointly called by InfoAndina and the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Department, with the financial support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat...
An historic opportunity—the eradication of poverty—is within reach of the 2005 World Summit. However, a critical barrier persists: progress on eliminating poverty will only be possible with expanded, more effectively targeted investments in environmental management as a means of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Speeding progress towards the MDGs will require...
This book is one of the outputs of the programme of work undertaken in 2005-2008 by IUCN's Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM). In selecting the case studies, it was CEM's view that the Ecosystem Approach had to be applied in multiple-use landscapes where Protected Areas formed no part, or only one among several parts, of the whole ecosystem.
These cases make it clear that...
The precautionary principle, or precautionary approach, has emerged over recent decades as a widely and increasingly accepted general principle of environmental policy, law, and management. It is an approach to uncertainty, and provides for action to avoid serious or irreversible environmental harm in advance of scientific certainty of such harm. While an important and intuitively sensible...
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