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A preliminary study of glacial fluctuations in Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) National Park, Nepal was undertaken in Oct-Nov 2007 using repeat photography. Photographs from scientific and cartographic expeditions to the upper Imja Khola region ca. 1950 were replicated in order to derive a better, empirically-based understanding of what changes had occurred in the region's glaciers during the past...
Reliable analyses of environmental processes and dynamics on a regional scale require the availability and easy accessibility of relevant data from across the region. To understand the mechanisms behind environmental processes and dynamics so as to make accurate predictions of the future, we need adequate information on the physical, biological and socio-economic features of a region. In the...
The book "Himalayan Households, Tamang Demography and Domestic Process written by Tomes E. Fricke is about the depth and massive study of mountain adaption toward an anthropological framework for population research within the human ecological perspective. It analyzes the trend in anthropological demography on the basis of mountainous adaptation and changes within them are among the central...
CONDESAN (Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion) is a 10-year-old group of more than 70 organisations — national and international, public and private, and including universities, Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) centres, development NGOs, research institutions, government agencies, municipalities and producer associations. A key...
The Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) is a university institution that conducts resource- and people-oriented research and development activities in Switzerland and abroad. It is part of the Institute of Geography at the University of Berne and is the lead institution for the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North–South.
Currently, a growing societal awareness of problems in the context of unsustainable development meets with conflicts of interest, and the actual implementation of sustainability research, and sustainable innovations and technologies, has only been mildly successful. Sustainable development demands nothing less than a radical change in their modes of consumption, production, technology, and...
Within three weeks of the call for papers being released, the workshop organisers decided to engage the Challenge Dialogue System (CDS) of Innovation Expedition Inc. (www.innovationexpedition.com). The CDS is an eight-step process for “improving the organisational and innovative performance of diverse groups,” and had been used successfully at ILRI in several complex virtual team...
The dismantling and privatization of public service agencies in many countries, particularly Latin America, means that the responsibility of managing natural resources and sustainable agriculture is being handed over to industry and civil society. This means new responsibilities for local governments, communities as well as non-governmental development organisations. Unfortunately...
The Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Eco-region (CONDESAN) is an association of public and private sector partners with a common focus, who take advantage of synergies to carry out and facilitate concerted action in research, training, development, and policy initiatives. Such action is designed to coordinate sustainable socioeconomic advances that promote the equity and...
Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on South Africa. In particular, rural farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the use of natural resources, are likely to bear the brunt of adverse impacts. The extent to which these impacts are felt depends in large part on the extent of adaptation in response to climate change. This research uses a "bottom-up...
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