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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 study examined the main factors affecting forest cover changes in Kabaung Reserved Forest, where selective logging has been carried out. Change detection was performed based on analysis of Landsat images taken in January 1989, November 2000, and January 2003. The authors used a combination of supervised classification and normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) image-differencing...
The Mekong plays an important role in ensuring the well-being of China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, as the major river supporting agriculture and many other economic activities in the region. It also brings regular floods to the region which, although sometimes damaging, are an integral part of the lives of many communities in the Mekong River basin. However, in recent...
Despite intensive and lengthy government efforts throughout the eastern Himalayan region to stop shifting cultivation, the practice has remained entrenched over large areas. Recognising this, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development and joined by partners in five eastern Himalayan countries (...
The presentation examines the challenges for research focusing on the poverty-environment nexus in the lower Mekong basin. First results are described, linking regional land cover dynamics to environmental service provision. In conclusion, the future outlook looks at linking landscape mosaics to socio- economic disparities and stakeholders.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), together with its partners and regional member countries, is committed to a shared vision in which the mountain population of the greater Himalayas enjoys improved wellbeing in a sustainable global environment. ICIMOD’s mission is to enable and facilitate the equitable and sustainable wellbeing of mountain peoples by...
As the effects of climate change join and exacerbate the conflicts, natural disasters and development projects that drive displacement, Christian Aid fear that an emerging migration crisis will spiral out of control. Unless urgent action is taken, it threatens to dwarf even that faced by the war ravaged world all those decades ago. Christian Aid predicts that, on current trends, a further 1...
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