UN World Water Development Report 2025
<p>For billions of people, mountain meltwater is essential for drinking water and sanitation, food and energy security, and the integrity of the environment. But today, as the world warms, glaciers are
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How Great Is The Threat From Melting Ice Sheets? (Interview)
The UN Climate Panel says seas could rise by 18-59 cms (7-24 inches) by 2100, without taking account the possible acceleration of a melt of ice sheets in Antarctica or Greenland. Even a small thaw of Antarctica and Greenland would affect sea levels since together they lock up enough ice to raise sea levels by about 65 metres (215 feet) if they all melted.
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Interim report of the People's Commission of Inquiry to inquire into the land deals due to dams and Lavasa Project
<p>Interim report of the People's Commission of Inquiry to inquire into the land deals, land transfers and displacement due to dams and Lavasa Project in the Sahyadri (mountainous) region of Pune, Maharashtra. </p>
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Biodiversity and climate change in the himalayas: sustainable mountain development
Professor Bruno Messerli, together with the team at ICIMOD made a tangible proposal for the long-term preservation of Himalayan genetic heritage: to select four representative
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Upstream-downstream: wetlands connect us all
World Wetlands Day 2009 is being celebrated with the slogan
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Mountain agriculture: Development policies and perspectives
This paper deals with agricultural development and policies in mountains and hills in the Himalayan region. Mountain agriculture (instead of being confined to field crops as in the case of the prime land in plains) is an integrated system of resource usage, linking various land-based activities.
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Responding to the challenges of global change
The impacts of climate change are already becoming evident in the
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Sequestering carbon through indigenous agriculture practices
Mountain communities have been adapting to changing environment for a long time. Traditional farming methods depending on recycling of available natural resources is the key to sustainable production systems. Local marketing systems have also played a vital role in reducing the emissions and food miles.
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Natural resource management approaches and technologies in Nepal
In the present publication, thirty technologies and approaches from the Nepal Conservation Approaches and Technologies (NEPCAT) database, documented using the WOCAT tool, are being published as printed fact sheets to facilitate sharing with a wider audience.
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International mountain biodiversity conference 2008: conference report
Mountains are among the most fragile environments on earth but, at the same time, are also rich repositories of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the sources of much of the water that sustains life on the planet.
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Mountain transboundary protected area and connectivity conservation
This workshop examined the threats that climate change and the fragmentation of natural ecosystems pose to mountain environments. The focus was on mountains, and specifi cally those conservation connectivity corridors which include transboundary protected areas. The workshop endeavoured to assist the