Resource constraints and management options in mountain watersheds of the Himalayas: proceedings of a regional workshop held 8-9 December, 2003, in Kathmandu, Nepal

By:

White, Roger (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: "Kathmandu,Nepal"; ICIMOD; 2005Description: 284 pISBN:

9291151432

Subject(s):

Environment

DDC classification:

333.73 RES

Summary: This document is a compilation of the papers presented at the wrap-up workshop for Phase 2 of the People and Resource Dynamics in Mountain Watersheds of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas Project (PARDYP), held in Kathmandu in December 2003. This project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada), and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). PARDYP Phase 2 began in October 1999 and ended in December 2002, and has been active at the watershed scale in the four ICIMOD countries of China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan PARDYP is a research for development project that evolved out of previous IDRC-funded projects that were concerned with natural resource dynamics and the rehabilitation of degraded areas in the middle mountains of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas (HKH). These field studies provided much experience and a number of important lessons. Their main findings were that 1) geographical generalisations should only be made based of the results of long term replicated tests and trials, 2) water is as important as soils in terms of both dynamics and sustainability, 3) institutional and policy settings must be supportive in order to obtain sustainable development, and 4) common methodologies and scientific rigour are crucial for monitoring biophysical parameters and change. The PARDYP project was developed at a 1996 workshop and was based on these findings and the need for longer term data generation and field study, and the need to work more closely with watershed communities. The second phase of the project was worked out at a 1999 workshop following the presentation of the Phase 1 findings at a workshop in Baoshan, China in May 1999 (see Allen, R., Schreier, H.; Brown, S, and Shah PB, eds (2000) The People and Resource Dynamics Project: the First Three Years, 1996-1999, Kathmandu: ICIMOD.)

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This document is a compilation of the papers presented at the wrap-up workshop for Phase 2 of the People and Resource Dynamics in Mountain Watersheds of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas Project (PARDYP), held in Kathmandu in December 2003. This project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada), and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). PARDYP Phase 2 began in October 1999 and ended in December 2002, and has been active at the watershed scale in the four ICIMOD countries of China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan

PARDYP is a research for development project that evolved out of previous IDRC-funded projects that were concerned with natural resource dynamics and the rehabilitation of degraded areas in the middle mountains of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas (HKH). These field studies provided much experience and a number of important lessons. Their main findings were that 1) geographical generalisations should only be made based of the results of long term replicated tests and trials, 2) water is as important as soils in terms of both dynamics and sustainability, 3) institutional and policy settings must be supportive in order to obtain sustainable development, and 4) common methodologies and scientific rigour are crucial for monitoring biophysical parameters and change. The PARDYP project was developed at a 1996 workshop and was based on these findings and the need for longer term data generation and field study, and the need to work more closely with watershed communities. The second phase of the project was worked out at a 1999 workshop following the presentation of the Phase 1 findings at a workshop in Baoshan, China in May 1999 (see Allen, R., Schreier, H.; Brown, S, and Shah PB, eds (2000) The People and Resource Dynamics Project: the First Three Years, 1996-1999, Kathmandu: ICIMOD.)

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