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"The number of people affected by floods from 1991 to 2000 is reported to be around 1.5 billion. Disasters caused by floods have been increasing in the recent past, mainly as a consequence of the expansion of settlements and the growth of investment in flood plains", says latest World Meteorological Organization Report.
Southeast Asia constitutes one of the world's most...
Mountains, though having grandeur, mystery, prominence and even sacredness have not captured public nor political attention as a focus for concern and action. Without an illustrious, persuasive spokesperson, mountains have languished as a discrete topic of major public concern.
The constraints to sustainable use of these dynamic, "fragile", three-...
The forest and 'wasteland' provide non-timber resource the mainstay of Himalayan village economy. They 'often yield spontaneously more valuable produce' then artificial cultivation observed a land settlement officer Barnes in 1850. The pioneer environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna has been advocating strongly for tree farming in Himalaya. His slogan of five F trees has become popular among...
In the Southeast of the Tibetan Plateau, forested areas are common on slopes along the deeply dissected river valleys of Yangtze, Yalong, Mekong, Salween and Tsangpo Rivers and their tributaries. The forest region is presently administrated as Nyingchi and Qamdo Prefectures in TAR, Ganzi and Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures (TAP) in W-Sichuan and Deqen TAP in NW-Yunnan. In Tibet AR...
Since the Second World War till the end of the 20th century because of the well - known (now historical) circumstances, geographical institutions on the Balkans had very weak collaboration. Together with new economical, political and other tendencies in the field of science comes to concrete forms of collaboration. A contract on the realization of the project "Recreative potentials...
Serbia and Montenegro (former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) covers an area of 102,173 square kilometres, with some 10 million inhabitants including 600,000 refugees.
The landscape of the Serbia and Montenegro is mostly a mountainous one because the highlands of above 200 metres altitude are covering two thirds of its area, and the lowlands some one third of the territory. The hills of...
Karl Kasthofer was appointed District Forester in Interlaken in 1806. Conditions in Switzerland at this time were strikingly similar to conditions now found in so-called developing countries. The fundamental problem concerning forests in the early 19th century was one of conflicting demands at several different levels. Townspeople, and most foresters, originally saw the forest as a...
The future security of the planet's growing human population rests in great measure on the mountain watersheds of the world. Yet no part of the environment is so badly neglected by the policy makers in this wide ranging overview.
Mountains make up one fifth of the world's landscape and are home to at least one tenth of the world's people. An additional 2 billion...
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