Indigenous adaptation knowledge in mountainsnewsMountain ecosystems and communities are extremely vulnerable to climate change. There is evidence that temperatures are rising faster at higher altitudes. High mountains are ‘highly temperature sensitive regions’, with several extreme impact events of recent decades attributed to warming, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Glacier retreat...
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Pastoralists plan knowledge hub in MongolianewsThe Central Asian Meeting of Pastoralists was held in Hustai National Park in Mongolia to set up the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub on 26-29 July 2015. Around 40 representatives of pastoralist communities and pastoralist leaders from eight Central Asian countries - the Altai Republic of the Russian Federation, China, India, Kazakhstan,...
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New book reveals sacred sites in Kyrgyz highlandsnewsA new book, “Values of Naryn: Breathing Sacredness and Precious Wisdom,” is dedicated to sacred sites and previously unrecorded knowledge on spiritual and household practices, rituals, customs and oral history of local population, living in highlands of Naryn province in Kyrgyzstan. All the data was collected by a team of...
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50th anniversary of American Mount Everest expedition celebratedpeak to peakIssue 57 - Month 5 - Year 2013
Our new issue of Peak to Peak reports on a new National Geographic Society book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first expedition of an American team to successfully reach the summit of Mount... Download » |
Teaching Resource Kit for Mountain Countries (UNESCO)publicationThis environmental education kit for mountain countries is intended for secondary (and late primary) school teachers and their pupils. Prepared by UNESCO’s Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences under its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, the kit offers a creative approach to environmental education and is designed to... Download » |
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MRD 32.3 on Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition: Now available in RussiannewsFor the first time in the history of Mountain Research and Development, an entire issue has been translated. Translation of Vol 32, No 3 (August 2012) into Russian was made possible and carried out by the University of Central Asia’s Mountain Societies Research Centre, who also served as guest editor...
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