Nepal comprises of only 0.1% of land area on a global scale, but it possesses a disproportionately rich diversity of flora and fauna at genetic, species and ecosystem levels. The Biodiversity Profiles of Nepal 1996 (BPN) was the first initiative of its kind to document all the information on Nepal’s biodiversity recorded till the year 1995. However, a system needed to be established to update and verify all these information on a regular basis. Nepal Biodiversity resource Book (NBRB) was thus established to carry out those needs and give continuity to this initiative.

This book is one of four reports intended to provide a quick overview of the current status of disaster preparedness planning in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan including the documents, plans, and legal instruments in place and the institutions governing their implementation.

This book is one of four reports intended to provide a quick overview of the current status of disaster preparedness planning in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan including the documents, plans, and legal instruments in place and the institutions governing their implementation.

This book is one of four reports intended to provide a quick overview of the current status of disaster preparedness planning in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan including the documents, plans, and legal instruments in place and the institutions governing their implementation.

It is only recently that the importance of integrating local knowledge and practices into development and conservation projects has started to receive real recognition, but the approach is still far from being mainstream. This book is one of a set of three prepared to help increase awareness and understanding, particularly among implementing organisations, of local knowledge, practices, and contexts related to disaster preparedness, so that they can be used in disaster management activities.

Most of ICIMOD’s regional member countries have a good legal basis for ensuring environmental justice, but knowledge about the legal options and processes is limited. This book aims to provide a reference book and training resource to increase local-level awareness of environmental justice, focusing on legal approaches. It is an outcome of the ‘Minority Rights and Environmental Justice’ project initiated in 2004 by the Ford Foundation and ICIMOD.

It is only recently that the importance of integrating local knowledge and practices into development and conservation projects has started to receive real recognition, but the approach is still far from being mainstream. This book is one of a set of three prepared to help increase awareness and understanding, particularly among implementing organisations, of local knowledge, practices, and contexts related to disaster preparedness, so that they can be used in disaster management activities.

The first book summarises the results of a cross-disciplinary literature review, and presents a framework that can be used to help understand local knowledge on disaster preparedness. This book provides examples from a case study in the eastern Terai of Nepal. The book is an outcome of the project ‘Living with risk – sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness’ funded by the European Commission through their Humanitarian Aid department (DG ECHO) as part of the Disaster Preparedness ECHO programme (DIPECHO) in South Asia, and by ICIMOD.

This publication summarises the lessons learned and recommendations from the participatory action research carried out in Nepal between September 1996 and June 2006 under the ICIMOD-coordinated People and Resource Dynamics Project (PARDYP) in Mountain Watersheds of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and ICIMOD.

This study, prepared in close cooperation with and supported by the United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, investigates the impact of climate change on glaciers and glacial lakes in two major glacial hotspots in the Himalayas: the Dudh Koshi sub-basin in the Khumbu-Everest region in Nepal, and the Pho Chu sub-basin in Bhutan.

Kathmandu Valley is a place of extraordinary natural and cultural beauty. But it is a valley now transformed almost beyond recognition. Constantly growing traffic congestion, polluted air from vehicles and brick factories, rapidly expanding urban sprawl, streams and rivers that too often resemble sewers, piles of waste, and shortages of drinking water too often obscure the beauty beneath and beyond.

The Ratu Khola watershed employs flood-hazard mapping to study flood hazard, risk, and vulnerability in a watershed unit. The study combined three approaches: a geomorphic approach using geographical information system and remote sensing; measurement of rainfall-runoff processes using the Hydrological Engineering Corporation’s River System Analysis (HEC-RAS) model; and social flood hazard mapping based on community experiences.

In 2000, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Royal Government of Bhutan carried out the first ever agricultural census for the whole country to give the Renewable Natural Resources Statistics 2000. The present publication presents these data in the form of thematic maps showing the district-wise distribution of selected indicators, thus allowing a rapid visual grasp of the implications in terms of geographic distribution and difference.

Forestry / Case studies / Community forestry / Forest management / Forestry development / Forestry policies / Land use / Mining development / Natural resources / Wetlands

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