Keynote Address - Securing Sustainable Livelihoods in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: Directions for Future Research, Development and Cooperation

摘要

The political setting: ICIMOD - 21 years in a rapidly changing mountain world. The inauguration of ICIMOD in 1983 took place between the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1972, and the Rio Earth Summit on Environment and Development in 1992 with its Agenda 21 and the mountain chapter 'Managing Fragile Ecosystems-Mountain Sustainable Development'. In these 20 years from 1972 to 1992, the awareness for the mountains and their natural and human resources reached such a level that the mountain chapter was accepted unanimously for the Agenda of the 21st century.