transboundary issues
The area surrounding Mount Kangchenjunga in the eastern Himalayas is spread across four countries: Nepal, India, Bhutan, and China. It includes many protected areas—of particular interest to mountain overs—that are still unexplored. However, these protected areas are islands that are facing degradation through a number of activities, the latest of which is tourism. The pressures on...
This is a brief introduction that will pave way to a series of subsequent Policy Briefs to be produced as outputs of the Economics Component (Project No. UNTS/RAF/008/GEF P. O. No: 93330) of the GEF/UNDP/FAO Project Reducing Biodiversity Loss at Selected Cross-Border Sites in East Africa. A series of policy briefs will be produced on an ongoing basis highlighting the progress, findings, and...
The chapters in this guide are largely based upon the main themes of the 1991 International Consultation on Parks, Peaks and People, whose themes were selected to cover topics of wide general interest and applicability. These were published in 1992 as Guidelines for Mountain Protected Areas (edited by Duncan Poore, IUCN, Gland). Most of them address, to a greater or lesser extent, all the...
The following guidelines are offered to help in application of the IUCN protected area management categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives. The categories are recognised by international bodies such as the United Nations and by many national governments as the global standard for defining and recording protected areas and as such are increasingly...
A map of the world, or of any continent (except Australia), is a patchwork quilt of countries of various sizes and shapes. Sometimes they have boundaries that make geographical sense. Other times, the boundaries are straight lines, imposed by colonial powers centuries ago. Today, territorial integrity is a foundation principle of the relations between governments, but even so, boundary...
Indicative of the intense interest and activity in this area of conservation biology, there has been a wealth of new material over the last decade. This includes several published conference proceedings, critical reviews, and a variety of papers reporting field studies, computer simulations and application of conceptual principles to land-use planning. There is also a rapidly growing number of...
<p>The international workshop Value of water – Different Approaches in Transboundary Water Management provided a forum for presenting and discussing the different approaches to the issue in an interdisciplinary manner, bringing together experts from various scientific and research backgrounds (economics, political science, hydrology, peace research, cultural studies, theology,...
This report investigates whether a technology transfer mechanism can help to reach a cooperative outcome, in a game on a climate change treaty that involves emission caps for both developed and developing countries. A climate change treaty without the inclusion of developing countries and their acceptance of emission limits is likely to be ineffective. Too little research and development of...
This is the sixth in IUCN’s series of Working Papers which provide global overviews of natural World Heritage sites in the major biomes on earth. The theme of this Working Paper 6 is mountains, a theme chosen to coincide with the designation by the UN as the International Year of the Mountains. The objectives of this Working Paper are to: (1) identify and analyze the existing natural and...
Pages
