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The present report was prepared in response to General Assembly resolution 64/205, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its sixty-sixth session on the status of sustainable development in mountain regions. The report describes the status of sustainable mountain development at the national and international levels, including an overall analysis of the...
11 August 2011: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has published a report of the UN Secretary-General that was prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in response to UNGA resolution 64/205 requesting the Secretary-General to report to it at its 66th session on the status of sustainable development in mountain regions.
The report notes that mountain...
The Mountain Partnership is a voluntary alliance of partners dedicated to improving the lives of mountain people and protecting mountain environments around the world. Launched at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in 2002, the Mountain Partnership taps the wealth and diversity of resources, information, knowledge, and expertise of its members to support positive change in mountain...
As you know, 2011 is the International Year of Forests. As a contribution to this International Year, and also as an element in the process aiming to ensure appropriate recognition of the world's mountain areas and their resources and people in the 2012 Rio+20 Earth Summit, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has commissioned a report on the world's mountain...
Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) uses economics and strategic thinking to help conserve natural ecosystems around the globe. The foundation of our work is teaching local conservationists how to use economics to succeed. Our training program helps them create and strengthen parks, influence policies, craft sustainable development paths and avert damage from major road and dam projects. CSF was...
Universidad estatal vinculada a la sociedad y economía del conocimiento en todos sus campos, creando y participando en redes y otras formas de interacción.
What is the relationship between economic development and biodiversity? Is this relationship characterized primarily by compatibilities or conflicts, does the nature of the relationship change as development proceeds? Two distinct dialogues on these issues can be found, one operating at a macro-scale and the other at a micro-scale. The former, focusing on the environmental Kuznets curve...
Over the past decade, efforts to value and protect ecosystem services have been promoted by many as the last, best hope for making conservation mainstream – attractive and commonplace worldwide. In theory, if we can help individuals and institutions to recognize the value of nature, then this should greatly increase investments in conservation, while at the same time fostering human well-being...
OVERVIEW
* Payments for Environmental Services in Mountain Areas: An Overview of the Options and Challenges for Mountain Systems and People
FEATURE ARTICLES
* Payments for Environmental Services: The Need for Redefinition? - Beria Leimona and Rudolf de Groot
* Addressing Equity and Poverty Concerns in Payments for Environmental Services
* Delivering Environmental...
Mountain areas cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface, with 26 percent of the global population living in them or very close by.
Mountain people and mountain environments are particularly threatened by global environmental change and economic and political forces. A disproportionate number of conflicts occur in mountain regions, and their inhabitants include many of the...
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