Land-Water Linkages in Rural Watersheds

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"Deforestation in the Himalayas blamed for killer flood" - headlines such as this one from August 2000 suggest that upstream land use practices have important impacts on water resources and affect the people downstream at a watershed scale. Payments by downstream people to upstream people for "environmental services" such as...

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United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Status of preparation for the International Year of Mountains, 2002 (2001)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly at 55^th Session.
A/RES/55/189

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Environmentally sound forest road construction in mountainous terrain

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The study was carried out in semi-natural forests of the Alps in the province of Salzburg, Austria. Although the concept of opening up forests by a permanent road network as a precondition for forest management and utilization of forests in a sustainable manner is widely accepted both to specialists and to...

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Alpine Convention

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