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The European Red List is a review of the conservation status of c.6,000 European species (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater fishes, butterflies, dragonflies, and selected groups of beetles, molluscs, and vascular plants) according to IUCN regional Red Listing guidelines. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the regional level – in order that...
This assessment is the first overview of the conservation status of 877 northern African freshwater species belonging to five taxonomic groups—fish, molluscs, dragonflies and damselflies, freshwater crabs and aquatic plants—in accordance with the IUCN regional Red List guidelines. Species at risk of regional extinction are mapped and conservation measures are proposed to...
Conservation in densely-settled biodiversity hotspots areas often requires setting up reserve networks that maintain sufficient contiguous habitat to support viable species populations. Because it is difficult to secure landholder compliance with an tightly constrained reserve network design, attention has shifted to voluntary incentive mechanisms, such as purchase of conservation easements by...
This report provides background information and a framework for discussing mountain issues in the context of the current climate change dialogue. It synthesizes the state of current knowledge and provides an overview of the evolution and status of the global Mountain Agenda from the time it was agreed upon during the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to the United Nations Framework Convention on...
This study was conducted in collaboration with HarvestChoice (IFPRI) and evaluates the potential impacts of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project run by CIMMYT and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in 13 countries of eastern, southern and west Africa, describing cumulative economic and poverty-reduction benefits to farmers and consumers in those...
Dilli Raman Regmi (b. 1913) has been in the field of Nepalese history for some 40 years. His corpus of published works is impressive. As he was almost alone in publishing in English, he is the only one familiar to the scholarly world outside Nepal. His work as well as reputation is imposing, covering all three fields of Nepalese historiography - ancient, medieval and modern. In the last 30...
Of the numerous testimonies of Nepal's religious history, some of the most palpable ones are, perhaps, the textual evidence, particularly the manuscripts. Although Nepal has preserved an unbelievable quantity of manuscripts of Hindu as well as Buddhist persuasions, they are mostly in the form of copies, rather than original contributions to religious thought or critical/exegetical commentaries...
Hutt, M (ed), 1994, Nepal in the Nineties: Versions of the past, visions of the future. Oxford University Press, Delhi, India.
This book contains eight essays that directly or indirectly, with one exception, deal with the politics (broadly defined) of Nepal during the late Panchyat era, the Jana Andolan of 1990, and the first two years of multiparty democracy. Richard Burghart's opening...
Caplan, L; Warrior Gentlemen: "Gurkhas" in the Western Imagination. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK/Providence, USA.
The relationship between the Kingdom of Nepal and the United Kingdom is unique. Over and above Nepal being Britain's oldest Asian ally with especially warm ties - and the first (and only?) Asian non-Commonwealth country to be visited twice by any British head of state - is the...
mero nepali kitaba is a textbook for grade 1 written by Divaka Dhungel and published by the Primary Curriculum and Textbook Development Unit in 2049. It was prepared after three years of preparation and extensive consultation with hundreds of teachers, parents, headmasters, educationalists, resource persons, linguists, and Nepali experts. The objective of the book is to teach...
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