Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil … frequently dominated by widely held beliefs concerning the extent of deforestation (that it is large and growing over time), and … its impacts on local livelihoods (that these are adverse and large). Views concerning determinants of deforestation …

development community focused on Nepal. Suchfloods endanger thousands of people, hundreds of villages, and basic …. Unlike most other mountain hazards in Nepal,reducing the possibility of outburst floods is technically feasible. The first … attemptwithin Nepal to reduce the hazard of one lake by artificially lowering its water levelwas partially completed in June 2000 …

system which is located in Mustang, Nepal, Himalaya. Defining flexibility as “uncommitted potentialities for change …Climate change is projected to increase the seasonality in river flows in the great river systems of Himalaya and …

, Nepal, Himalaya. …

medicinal plant harvesters and traders involved in the medicinal plant market in Nepal and India in order to be able to conduct … administered to harvesters (n = 639) and traders (n = 166) in 15 districts in Nepal, central wholesalers (n = 90) throughout the …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the relationship between population growth and poverty in Nepal - discusses food … and deforestation; examines living conditions, calorie deficiencys, social status disparities due to caste and sex …

A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal …, increased education, non-farm business assets and road connectivity with reduced collections. Nepal households collected 25 …

relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low …-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three successive rounds of the Nepal LSMS corresponding to 1995, 2003 and 2010, while other … is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010.[BREAD …

representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working Paper No. 51 - 10]. …