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The number and area of nature reserves in China have increased significantly in the last 2 decades. This massive increase has not been matched by a corresponding enhancement of management inputs and capabilities. Six major problems in protected area (PA) management are identified in this article: selection of unsuitable sites for conservation, shortage of funding, rising people–park...
By combining research on individual forage plants and plant communities, significant information about the changing condition of rangelands under specific management practices can be produced; this has rarely been done to date. On the one hand, studies on individual plants provide rather mechanistic, isolated insights, making it impossible to identify interactions and the properties of plant...
Water scarcity is a serious problem in Koppal, a semi-arid district with barren rocky hills in northern Karnataka, India. The hills were denuded of forests and trees in the past. Resource depletion continues to occur because of rock blasting and stone cutting. This has led to low groundwater recharge, a problem further aggravated by the digging of bore wells to a depth at which only saline...
Four conferences of the European Ministers of Forestry have addressed the role of forests as an important economic factor to date, stressing research results and needs, followed their significant contribution in protecting human settlements and infrastructure against natural hazards and providing benefits such as recreation and preservation of ecological diversity. They also focused on...
The Slovak Republic is one of the most forested countries in Europe. Forest covers about 20,000 km2 (41%) of the total area of the country, a substantial part of which is occupied by the mountains of the Carpathian Arch (highest peak: Gerlachovsky Peak, 2655 m). Forests in Slovakia have commercial functions as well as functions of benefit to the public: timber production, water...
The conference on “Conservation of Himalayan Biodiversity for Human Welfare” drew international attention to conservation and sustainable management and use of biological resources. The conference brought together various related aspects such as education, research, development, policy, production, processing, marketing, economics, energy and environment and established an...
During the past century the “Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation” has dominated mainstream views concerning natural resource management in the Himalayan region. The main tenet of this theory is that increased human population has resulted in increased demands for natural resources, leading to severe resource depletion, especially deforestation. In this article, the...
The Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA), a part of the DIVERSITAS international programme of biodiversity science, aims to undertake a global assessment of the biological richness of high-elevation biota and to explain the causes of biological richness in mountains as well as changes in this richness over time. Because changes in biodiversity most often result from human land use,...
Understanding women’s influence on plant biodiversity is essential to our ability to conserve plant genetic resources, especially those plants that are useful to humans. Contrary to previous thinking, it is becoming clear that women know most about these plants because, throughout history, women’s daily work has required more of this knowledge.
This paper describes how...
Some key facts about women and agriculture in Bhutan:
- The population consists to 49% of women and to 51% of men;
- 62% of the women work in agriculture l The literacy rate among rural women is around 10%;
- The division of labour by gender is not rigidly fixed, as men and women can take over each other's tasks, with few exceptions,...
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