India

 Trends in high places

Traditional timber and slate houses vs a neo concrete nightmare in a Himachal village

Publication Date: 
14/10/2002
Baldev S Chauhan
Down to Earth
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Mountains, Building Materials, Architecture, Building Technology, Traditional Knowledge, Tourism, India, Himachal Pradesh
India

 Ecotourism: Scrambling for paradise

Does tourism always have to be a threat to the environment? Not anymore, claim the promoters of the globally emerging industry of ecotourism. Socially responsible and ecologically sustainable tourism, which could at the same time be profitable for the com

Publication Date: 
30/07/2002
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Ecotourism, Marine Ecosystems, Mountains, Lakes, Economy, Tourism, Biodiversity, Economic Development, Kenya, South Africa, Peru, India, Kerala, Sikkim
Climate Change

 Local lessons

Taking climate change negotiations out of international discussion boards to the villages

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
Nidhi Jamwal
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Mountains, Glaciers, Forest Management, Afforestation, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, NGO, Andhra Pradesh
Wildlife

 Clearing the trash

Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain and the world's highest garbage dump. A four-nation Asian team will clear the 8,850-metre high peak of mounds of oxygen cylinders, plastic, food cans,

Publication Date: 
14/05/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mountains, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Japan, Nepal
Air Pollution

 Mounting problem

Human activities are degrading mountain ranges worldwide

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution, Mountains, Land Degradation, Mining, Deforestation, Drought, Migration, Tourism, War, Madagascar, Australia
Air Pollution

 Manager Of Hope

DEWAN SINGH AGE 95 VILLAGE LATA He remembers accompanying the last expedition to Nanda Devi peak, the country's second highest peak, which falls within the Nanda Devi Biosphere reserve (NDBR).

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mountains
Economy

 Shrouded in controversy

A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people s rights over forests.

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mountains, Glaciers, Economy, Rural Habitat, Nanda Devi NP, Biosphere Reserves, Wildlife Trade, Poaching, Tourism, Research, Scientists, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Environment Management
India

 Keep on the grass

Alpine pastures are

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
Anju Sharma
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Grasslands, Mountains, Alps, Agriculture, Legumes, Animal Feed, Milk Products, Food Policy, Farmers, Grasses, Tourism, Subsidies, GATT, Switzerland, India, Food Security
India

 Mountains that matter

The United Nations declares 2002 as the International Year of the Mountains

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
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Mountains, Shifting Cultivation, UN, FAO
Biodiversity

 Meltdown

Latest NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) satellite maps reveal that most of the

Publication Date: 
29/06/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mountains, Alps, Himalaya, Glaciers, Environmental Science, Remote Sensing, Europe, United States Of America (US), NASA

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