transboundary issues

Managing mountain protected areas: Challenges and responses for the 21st century

Managing Mountain Protected Areas presents experience from around the world on a diverse set of issues related to the special circumstances of managing PAs in mountainous areas. Among the subjects are landscape-level inititatives, corridors, transboundary PAs, biodiversity, partnerships, wilderness, recreation, visitor impacts, and financing, among others. The book originated in a workshop...

A window to landscape conservation

The author reviews the ICIMOD publication: Sharma, E.; Chettri, N.; Gurung, J.; Shakya, B. (2007) The Landscape Approach in Biodiversity Conservation : A Regional Cooperation Framework for Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Kangchenjunga Landscape, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal

Conservation practice that was launched in Nepal in the early Seventies had...

Afghan transnational networks: Looking beyond repatriation

This publications synthesises results from a three-country research project on Afghan transnational networks and sustainable reintegration conducted by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) in 2004-5. The project generated case studies in nine locations across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. It focused on transnational networks because this approach...

Friends for life: New partners in support of protected areas

Protected areas have become part and parcel of global debates on such issues as security, human rights, genetic resources, foods and medicines, access to land and resources, social and cultural values and human heritage. Yet, while there are growing efforts to secure these areas, protected areas are also experiencing direct and indirect threats to their very survival. What must be done...

Kashmir and the Northern Areas of Pakistan: Boundary-making along contested frontiers

<p>Boundaries known to us and delineated on maps were introduced in the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya ranges in the late 19th century. The results of the “Great Game” have created major sources for conflict and war. Kashmir, the Siachin Glacier and the Northern Areas of Pakistan are prime examples of virulent disputes which are still hot issues today.  This...

La protection du Mont-Blanc

Since the beginning, the association Mountain Wilderness has been involved in the quest for the protection of the Mont-Blanc range. After the creation of ProMontBlanc, federation of all nature and landscape protection associations, the government of France, Italy and Switzerland implemented the Espace Mont-Blanc. Now, the French environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo proposes the listing of...

Balkans Peace Park project in running for top tourism award

Last autumn community leaders from valleys in northern Albania and adjacent areas of Kosovo and Montenegro met in Pristina (Kosovo) to mark their support for creating an international peace park in the mountainous region where their three territories converge. Now, less than a year later, the Balkans Peace Park Project (BPPP) finds itself in the running for one of Britain’s premier tourism...

Applicability of the alpine convention model to the mountain regions of the CIS

With the collapse of the Soviet Union the geopolitics of the mountain areas of the former USSR changed fundamentally. While new borders appeared for some mountain regions, e.g. the Caucasus, thus making mountain-wide development more difficult, for other regions, e.g. the Altai, the new order finally allowed range-wide co-operation (Russia and Mongolia, Russia and China). The social and...

Opportunities for transnational and cross-border cooperation in the Caucasus – a contribution to the International Year of the Mountains 2002

With the long-term Eastward enlargement of the EU, the Carpathian and the Caucasus mountains are increasingly becoming established in the public consciousness as European mountains. Countries and in particular scientists and NGOs working in the international arena are concerned that the desired economic integration of the Eastern European countries will endanger the natural and cultural...

The landscape approach in biodiversity conservation: Regional cooperation framework for implementation of conservation on biological diversity in the Kangchenjunga landscape

This Framework Paper presents the Regional Cooperation Framework developed for implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the southern part of the Kangchenjunga landscape, which includes parts of Nepal, Sikkim (India), and Bhutan. The Framework is the result of a long process that started with a pilot initiative on transboundary biodiversity management. It is intended as...

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