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Mountains also embody key global issues such as migration and urbanisation, food security, land degradation, conflicts, water supply, energy production, transport and waste management, biodiversity conservation and protected areas, extreme weather events (floods, droughts), and natural hazards. However, their physical remoteness does not mean that mountain people and...
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...
Costa Rica’s program of payments for environmental services provides financial compensation to owners of forests for the environmental services that forests provide. The differences in outcome between treatment (program participants) and control (non-participants) groups may be attributable to the program or they may be a result of a systematic difference between them. By using the method of...
This paper reviews the factors that make PES schemes work. Judging the effects of many PES schemes is challenging, partly because it is not evident what is being paid for compared with more traditional market transactions, and partly because it is not always possible to calculate the marginal net social benefit of the behaviors induced by the scheme. Given these difficulties, this paper...
Pilot Radio Project. The Mountain Forum Secretariat (MFS) and Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) collaborated with Radio Sagarmatha (RS), the oldest community FM radio station in South Asia, in a pilot project to bring the voices of the mountain and hill people residing in the Nepal Himalaya to Mountain Forum and the world at large. The idea behind the project was to facilitate a two-way...
Over the years, Mountain Forum has received recognition for its work from several organizations, institutions and individuals. In some cases, this recognition has taken the form of awards, and in others, references have been made to our work in magazines, articles, projects and so on
The Strategic plan is meant to guide the development of the Mountain Forum (MF) activities in the period 2008‐2011.
The first part of this document outlines the strategy as developed during the strategic planning process in May 2008 in Chambéry, attended by the Mountain Forum Board, representatives of the host institutions, managers of the regional networks and representatives of other...
Mountain Forum originated from events following the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. At this historic meeting heads of state and government endorsed United Nation's Agenda 21 which, among others, outlined in its Chapter 13 "Managing Fragile Ecosystems: Sustainable Mountain Development" the need for more emphasis on information sharing and advocacy for mountains areas of the world....
Having depleted much of the biodiversity located in the larger plains of the globe for meeting with industrial development and the linked urbanization that humans have witnessed during the past over a century, much of the remaining biodiversity is now largely confined to the mountain regions, more so to the developing tropics. Realizing that: (i) societies living in the mountains still try to...
With increasing awareness about the state of our environment, concerns about over-exploitation of resources and issues, not only just biophysical but also socio-economic and cultural dimensions relevant to rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems are now gaining importance. These concerns for a socio-ecological systems approach for dealing with rehabilitation of degraded systems are largely...
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