Pakistan
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 paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the urgency for relief and rehabilitation, donors may opt to collaborate with the ruling military regime. However, the international community must not allow it...
In June-July 2004, the Snow Leopard Conservancy (SLC) recently conducted field visits to three important snow leopard sites in Pakistan’s Northern Areas: Hushey and Skoyo villages in Baltistan and the Khunjerab Village Organization (KVO) in Gojal. The purpose was to launch environmentally appropriate small-scale, village-based conservation and depredation alleviation initiatives aimed at...
Launched in 1991, the strategy was the first key, on-the-ground test of the Pakistan National Conservation Strategy. This executive summary provides a mid term evaluation carried out in 1995.
Moving the Frontier tells the compelling story of the Sarhad Provincial Conservation Strategy (SPCS). Launched in 1991, the strategy was the first key, on-the-ground test of the Pakistan National Conservation Strategy. This volume captures the history of the SPCS and examines how well its environmental approach stood up to the realities of the day. It is a story of challenges and successes;...
Research into the present-day forest issues in NWFP has always recognised the importance of the historical past. Even today, people recall the period under the Walis as a golden age and suggest that forest-related rules be made as during the time of the Walis. However, very little was known about the details of forestry in the areas that comprised the princely State of Swat, and Kalam –...
(NCCR) North-South is based on a network of partnerships with research institutions in the South and East, focusing on the analysis and mitigation of syndromes of global change and globalisation. Its sub-group named IP6 focuses on institutional change and livelihood strategies: State policies as well as other regional and international institutions – which are exposed to and embedded in...
The displacement of more than three million people in Pakistan has triggered one of the biggest emergency responses of the year. This paper attempts to assess the extent to which this response lived up to global commitments for providing enough aid, in the right place and at the right time, in a way that is appropriate to the needs of crisis-affected people.
Four years after...
Development of forest areas, particularly in the mountain regions of NWFP, is faced with the two-key challenges of poverty alleviation and environmental conservation.
According to State of the World's Forests, published by FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation), only 2.36m hectare of land in Pakistan is under forest cover, which constitutes 3.1% of the total land area in country and...
The present paper assesses the access to livelihood assets in rural areas of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Considering the highland-lowland context, it subsequently analyses the market and non-market importance of forest resources for rural households. The analysis is based on data from three selected study locations in the province, collected through a field survey carried out...
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