The Himalayas–Hindu Kush, Kunlun Shan, Pamir and Tien Shan mountain ranges function as water towers, providing water to people through much of Asia. The glacier-fed rivers originating from the [..]
Changes in the Greater Asian Mountains area with reduced biodiversity and ecosystem function as a result of human development in infrastructure and associated resource exploitation between 2000 and [..]
Presentation of areas where infrastructure development, intense land use or agriculture has resulted in biodiversity loss in the Greater Asiam Mountain region. The locations illustrate some of the [..]
As numerous studies have demonstrated, women bear the
disproportionate burden of the costs of disasters, if their rights are not ensured and if gender, socio-cultural and political-economic [..]
Maiti Nepal rescues an estimated 2,000 thousand girls each
year, including children and women intercepted at borders and victims liberated from brothels and from various forms of abuse and [..]
Some estimates from Maiti Nepal suggest that trafficking from Nepal may have increased from an estimated 3-5,000 per year during the pre-war times (1990) to possibly 12-20,000 per year in 2010. This [..]
Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest nations is also the country most vulnerable to sea-level rise.
The population is already severely affected by storm surges. Catastrophic events in the past have [..]
Poster that was prepared as a proof of concept in the development of the GLOBIO2 model. The greater Himalayan region is a giant mega watershed with many areas with little development and this area [..]
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