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1. Details for the thematic clusters
Natural resources
Climate: basic facts, rainfall (total and intensity), snowfall (total and intensity), temperature, aridity/humidity, climate change
Water: basic facts, discharge characteristics, water quantity, water quality, water balance
Soil: basic facts, geological underground, soil types, soil erosion
Biodiversity: basic facts, geographical patterns, plant species, animal species, endangered species, endemic species, environmental conservation
Forests: basic facts, tree species, tree cover, forest resources assessment, forest quality, canopy layers
Earth resources, minerals
Resource use
Agriculture: basic facts, crop species, land-use systems, livestock, marketing, crop yields, cash crops, off-season crops, indigenous strategies, pest management, soil conservation
Forestry: basic facts, fuelwood, agroforestry, plantations, harvesting, supply, trees outside forests, non-wood forest products, ecological roles of forests, biodiversity conservation
Water: basic facts, irrigation, domestic use, pollution, hydropower production, industrial use
Mining
Socio-economic themes
Tourism and recreation: basic facts, ecotourism, close links to the International Year of Ecotourism, identifying tourist attractions, dangers, constraints and opportunities, ecological and socio-cultural impacts
Trade and transportation: basic facts, roads, rail, air, construction, instability, transit, conflicts
Financial strategies and mechanisms: microenterprise and markets
People and culture: basic facts, gender, education, cultural diversity, poetry/songs, traditional knowledge on resource use
Sacredness: basic facts, religion, ecological and conservation benefits
Integrated themes
Watershed management: basic facts, main issues, integrated approaches, people's participation
Gender issues
Highland-lowland interactions: basic facts, ecological interactions, social interactions, economic interactions, cost-benefit
Risks, hazards: basic facts, floods, landslides, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanoes, pollution, degradation
Mountain protected areas: UN list, gaps in coverage, maps of mountain protected areas, corridors along ranges and altitudes, parks and reserves
Conflicts: basic facts, development and protection, international river systems, ethnic conflicts, economic conflicts
Comparison of facts, methods, approaches over continents
Integrated mountain development
Environmental education on mountains
Health and well-being
Policies
2. Ideas for the clusters of methods and means for implementation
Awareness raising/communication/publication
Definitions: mountains, sustainable mountain development
Popularized brochures: key issues in mountain areas
Audiovisual production: films, news items, TV, radio emissions
Circulation of UN resolutions among governments
IYM promotion pack
Strengthening existing networks and regional cooperation, improved channels of communication
Promotion: essay competitions on mountains; promoting personalities
Planning game on sustainable mountain development with different scenarios
National Geographic and other publications (Royal Canadian Geographical Society etc.)
Goodwill ambassadors (celebrities)
Slogans, catchwords, logo
Rio +10 World Bank Environment/Development Report with focus on mountains
Pilgrimages to sacred mountain areas
Music (folk music, classical, traditional instruments)
Mountain art
Promote traditional mountain products
Preservation and development of cultural heritage (CD on mountain monasteries/buildings, indigenous materials, surrounding environments, houses, cultural traditions, oral histories, etc.)
With a special agenda increase awareness about mountain populations: expedition base camp clean-up week, sustainable mountain tourism month
Training, education and capacity building
Development of guidelines, holding of seminars on best practices in sustainable mountain development
Guidance to the formulation of appropriate mountain policy and legislation
Guidelines for the mapping out of the institutional landscape
Conservation guides
Indicative mountain development programme: operational review of Agenda 21, Chapter 13
Academic strengthening of university training course in montology (sponsoring new faculty modules on mountains)
Curricula, events and activities for schools
Promote people-to-people information exchange meetings (transfer of traditional technology): e.g. Latin America (Cotocachi, Cherokee) to Appalachia (2001)
Initiatives on mountain and biological diversity
Research
Comparison of mountain areas of the world: key processes, key problems and driving forces
Establish a global mountain database (images, glaciers, problems, etc.
Replicate photography environmental change in mountain areas/landscape change
Quantifying costs of migration from mountains
Promotion of montane cloud forest network (production of an atlas)
Recognition and strategies for new health hazards in mountains
Excavations of high mountain ancient settlements on the Great Silk Road (Kyrgyzstan, planned 1999-2002). To be suggested for other areas
Policy issues
Coordinated efforts of UN, governamental and non-governamental organizations. Avoid duplication/conflict of efforts and activities
Coordination of government actions
Influence the global and regional world organizations (WTO, WTTC, etc.) to take mountain issues into consideration
Tie mountain issues to CCD, CBD, IFF, SIDS and other conventions
Involve the private sector
Promotion of transborder peace-making process (conventions, agreements)
Conflict resolution in mountain areas
Culture-based environmental conservation (sacred mountains)
Implementing programmes and activities for conservation and development
Network of mountain projects worldwide linked, common ideas coordinated, exchange and cooperation
Focused projects, specific themes, case studies
Pilot project on highland-lowland interactions established and in operation
Coordination of activities
Transfer of local experience on policy decisions and vice versa. Horizontal and vertical interactions
Continuing awareness raising process (political, institutional, scientific, cultural)
Develop integrated concepts for mountain landscapes (linking biological and cultural diversity, political and economic impact)
Web page IYM (FAO), IYM Website connections, linkages
Bring the mountain issues into the Ecosystems Conservation Group (UNEP)
Gender-balanced mountain development
New national park and protected area initiatives, e.g. Iceland (by 2002), Mont Blanc (by 2002), Aletsch (by 2002)
Work in the villages
Mountain villages, Kyrgyzstan, 1999-2002
Demonstration sites
Operationalizing Chapter 13
Ideas for events (possible categories, not specific events)
International Conference "Mountain Ecosystems Conservation and Development: Mountain Heights 2002"
Meetings of specific networks
Regional mountain meetings
National mountain meetings
Technical workshops
University and research institutions symposia
Indigenous representatives' meeting for mountains
Mountaineering gatherings
Food security in the mountains of the world (topic for World Food Day 2002)
Briefing workshops for journalists
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