Unasylva - No. 195 - Moving Mountains













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Vol. 49

1998/4

An international journal of forestry and forest industries

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Editor: S.A. Dembner
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Editorial Advisory Board Forestry Department: J. Anderson, J. Ball, I.J. Bourke, S. Braatz, J. Clément, S.A. Dembner, M. Morell, C. Palmberg-Lerche, O. Serrano, K. Warner

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Guidelines for authors

Editorial

M.F. Price
Mountains: globally important ecosystems

E.A. Byers
The Mountain Forum: networking for mountain conservation and development

K. Pradhan
The Asia Pacific Mountain Network: sharing information for sustainable mountain development

O. Bennett
Mountain voices

D.J. Pratt and L. Preston
The economics of mountain resource flows

H. Liniger and R. Weingartner
Mountains and freshwater supply

A. Chaverri-Polini
Mountains, biodiversity and conservation

P.-C. Zingari
French forest communes and sustainable development in mountain areas

J.D. Ives
Mountain research and development: past, present and future

FAO forestry

World of forestry

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