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The social life of mangroves: Resource complexes and contestations on the industrial coastline of Kutch, India
STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2017In the last few decades, mangroves have attained significant environmental, climatic and therefore economic importance.Document"Something that the NGOs do"? Notes on participation and governance in the environment and development policy field
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017At the fundamental level, participation relates to the nature of relationships between human beings, often reflected in, through or by social institutions, through particular values, norms and reciprocal processes of interaction.DocumentProjected impacts of climate change on forests in the Brahmaputra, Koshi, and Upper Indus river basins
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017Two dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs), IBIS and LPJ, were used to assess the projected impacts of climate change on forests in terms of the shifts in vegetation types and changes in NPP (net primary productivity) in the mid Brahmaputra, Koshi, and upper Indus river basins.DocumentProceedings of Landscape Governance Training of Trainers, 25 September–5 October 2016, Chitwan, Nepal
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in collaboration with the Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI), organized a ‘Landscape Governance Training of Trainers’ in Chitwan, Nepal, from 25 September-5 October 2016.DocumentNatural resource governance at multiple scales in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017Human efforts to address poverty, enhance welfare, and conserve natural resources and the environment often fail because of faulty governance and implementation. Improvements in governance are consistently viewed as means to address the failures of sustainable development and natural resource management.DocumentTraditional practice and knowledge of indigenous and local communities in Kailash Sacred Landscape, Nepal
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017The Kailash Sacred Landscape (KSL) is a transboundary landscape (area: 31,252 sq.km) around Mount Kailash. KSL is exceptionally rich in cultural and ecological diversity and has its own traditional systems of resource use and management. KSL Nepal comprises approximately 42.5% of the total landscape area, and covers Baitadi, Darchula, Bajhang and Humla districts.DocumentParticipatory ecosystem-based planning and management: a resource manual for mid-level technicians and development workers
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017Management of natural resources (land, water, soil, vegetation) has multiple benefits. It not only provides ecosystem goods such as food, timber, fuelwood but also services like regulation of hydrological flows, erosion control, carbon sequestration and conservation of biodiversity.DocumentInvestigation of the landslide dam in Chin Hill, Myanmar, 15 July 2016
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017Heavy rainfall (480mm) on 16 July 2015 triggered a huge landslide (DGSE and GDKU, 2016) that dammed the Tui Lam Lui River approximately 52 km upstream of Yazagyo Dam near Hangken Village, Falam District in the Upper Chin Hill region in northwestern Myanmar.DocumentBuilding partnerships for conservation and development in HKH: exploring complementary opportunities for improving HKPL transboundary cooperation from One Belt, One Road Initiative, 1–12 December 2016, Lanzhou, China
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017The Hindu Kush Karakoram Pamir Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (HKPL-CDI) is a regional transboundary initiative to enhance cooperation between Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan for biodiversity conservation and mountain sustainable development.DocumentKangchenjunga Landscape feasibility assessment report
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017The Kangchenjunga Landscape (KL) is a transboundary landscape that spreads from the Tarai-Duar lowlands of India and Nepal, across the midhills of western Bhutan, northeast India and eastern Nepal, to the high Himalayan region of India and Nepal. The dominant feature in the landscape is Mount Kangchenjunga, the world’s third highest peak at 8,586 m.Pages