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Poverty alleviation and sustainable development of the mountain people in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region have been the main agenda of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Realizing the potential of geographic information (GI) for sustainable mountain development, ICIMOD through its Mountain Environment and Natural Resources Information Systems (MENRIS)...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) through its Mountain Environment and Natural Resources Information Systems (MENRIS) program has been focusing on GIS capacity building and networking of the national institutions in the HKH region to promote the development of GIS and its application for sustainable mountain development since early 1990. Developing human...
The Hindu Kush-Hiamalayas (HKH), extending from the mountains of Afghanistan to Myanmar, represents world's highest mountain ecosystems with youngest geological formation and a land of diverse human cultures, religions, indigenous traditional systems, and socio-economic conditions. Majority of the population in the region live in poverty and depend upon the fragile natural resources for...
Evapotranspiration (ET) constitutes an important component of the water fluxes of the hydrosphere and the atmosphere. It is a process of the result of complex interaction between water and energy fluxes subjected to changing atmospheric, soil and vegetation conditions. These complex variations complicate our attempt to quantify the ET at a regional scale adequately. This study is an attempt to...
Conserving mountain biodiversity and its indigenous tribe’s cultural diversity is hard mission especially when combine with community’s seeking for modern technologies especially their new generation which they has been lost their traditional knowledge on seeking more new easiest technologies and at end they lost the last rapport with their mother land. And depending on this there is urgent...
This research project tries to define an area in part of the Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador for the conservation of high altitude grasslands known as “Páramo”. To achieve this goal two different types of maps were reproduced:vegetation and the altitude of the terrain. Finally Páramo grasslands and associated vegetation communities were presented by merging two different maps. Vegetation...
Western tragopans are endemic to the Western Himalaya region of South Asia and are threatened by change in land-use, hunting and fragmentation of its habitat. Here, we map the known distribution pattern and potential habitat of the largest surviving population, which occurs in the Palas Valley, Kohistan, NWFP, Pakistan. Although listed as globally Vulnerable, the western tragopan population in...
The present paper focuses on the other side of the development, based on the findings from the empirical study of ACC cement factory at Barmana situated in the lower shivalik Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh. Like other developmental activities, this activity also ignores the ecological and environment concerns of the local area and disturb physical, socio- cultural as well as non-material...
The October 8, 2005 earthquake (EQ), measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale caused an estimated 73,000 casualties and triggered an estimated 1,000 landslides affecting a large number of communities in surrounding steep mountain valleys. Landslides remain a great threat to communities, especially during heavy rainfall and July/August monsoon rains (GSP 2007a, Petley et al. 2006). The goal of this...
Success of participatory GIS processes may depend on exploring the interactions of ethics, technology and society. Previously, tools were custom-built for particular processes, but Google Earth has features that capture many of the important aspects of these collaborative systems. The features relate to the following topics: Landscape perception, polygon entry, sharing data, comparing data,...
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