Welcome to the Mountain Forum Online Library! This Library is a collection of material focused on sustainable mountain development issues in an electronic form. It was established in 1996, with members of the Forum contributing academic articles, abstracts, features, reports, theses, bibliographic references and web resources, amongst others.

About the Library

The resources in the Library are of several types, and include full-text documents, bibliographic references, periodicals, and reference material. Each of these can be accessed by using the relevant links on the left of this page. The material in the Library is mostly in English, with some in French, Spanish and Russian as well. We hope to build the non-English language content considerably.

We encourage visitors to use the Library to its fullest potential, both by seeking out relevant material as well as by contributing their own material to the Library. You can contribute material by clicking here. It is this spirit of sharing which has given the Library its depth, and we hope that this will continue in the years to come.

New Features

All full-text documents have been formatted in a standard manner and are available for downloading in MS Word or PDF formats
All full-text documents carry mandatory information to provide credibility to the document
Key words have been added to each full-text document to give you more efficient search results
Abstracts of full-text documents are provided where available

Contact the Library

If you have any questions, or have any problems in accessing or contributing material, please contact us at:

Tel: +977-1-500 3222
Fax: +977-1-500 3277
Email: library[at]mtnforum[dot]org

Latest additions to the library

Getting a school on-line in a developing country: Common mistakes, technology options and costs - Mike Trucano; Robert Hawkins; Knowledge Enterprise;

Broadband: A solution for rural e-Learning? - Robin Mason; Frank Rennie; Athabasca University;

Changing faces of open and distance learning in Asia - Insung Jung; Athabasca University;

Information and communication technology in schools - Michelle Selinger; DFID;

Integration of the high-tech and low-tech in distance teacher training in China: An insight from the case of Jiangsu Radio and Television University - Zhang Xiangyang; Hung Shu-chiu; Athabasca University;

Voices for change: Tuning in to community radio - id21 Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University;

Climate, carbon, conservation and communities - Dilys Roe; Hannah Reid; Kit Vaughan; IIED;

Talking about a revolution: Climate change and the media - Mike Shanahan; IIED;

A journalist’s guide to the Bali Climate Conference - Mike Shanahan; IIED;

Participatory landscape analysis for community-based livestock management in Vietnam - Jean-Christophe Castella; Tran Trong Hieu; Yann K Eguienta; IIED;

Workshop on managing mineral wealth sustaining community benefits after mine closure - IIED;

MMSD Biodiversity and mining workshop learning from existing initiatives - IIED;

Copper mining processes in Chile: Learning from past impacts - Jose M Fariña; Juan C Castilla; IIED;

Climate change and sustainable development: Summary of the scoping study - IIED and Regional and International Networking Group;

How can Nepal be marketed as a tourist destination during times of political unrest? - Marianne Heredge;

Pro-poor tourism: Is it an answer to poverty alleviation? - Marianne Heredge;

Tourism development and local communities - Marianne Heredge;

Global warming singes western national parks: Climate disruption threatens America’s treasures - Stephen Saunders;

Mountains and freshwater supply - Hanspeter Liniger; Rolf Weingartner; Unasylva;

The economics of mountain resource flows - D Jane Pratt; Lynelle Preston;

Mountain voices - Olivia Bennett; Unasylva;

The Mountain Forum: Networking for mountain conservation and development - Elizabeth Byers;

ETFRN News 38: Mountain forests - Willemine Brinkman (ed); European Tropical Forest Research Network;

Increasing access to environmental justice: A resource book for advocacy and legal literacy in South Asia - J Mijin Cha; ICIMOD;

The efficiency of gender equity in economic growth: Neoclassical and feminist approaches - Elissa Braunstein; The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics;

Mountains, biodiversity and conservation - Adelaida Chaverri-Polini; Unasylva;

French forest communes and sustainable development in mountain areas - Per-Carlo Zingari; Unasylva;

Mountain research and development: Past, present and future - Jack D Ives; Unasylva;

FAO activities in support of sustainable mountain development since UNCED - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);

Enhanced forest plantation productivity through sustained pest management - Unasylva;

"Mountains to the sea": Implementation plan for the convention on biological diversity’s thematic programmes of work - Bill Phillips; WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature;

Vedanta cares?: Busting the myths about Vedanta’s operation in Lanjigarh, India - ActionAid International;

Forest cleansing: Racial oppression in scientific nature conservation - L Lohmann; The Corner House;

Annual review and assessment of the world timber situation - International Tropical Timber Organization;

The concept of “Heimat” (“home”) in the social structure of mountain farmers in the Tyrol - Elisabeth Rieder; Peter Stöger;

Strategic considerations on the development of Central Asia: Second CoDoCA Conference - Mahesh Banskota; Archana S Karki; Frank W Croon; ICIMOD and Council for Sustainable Development of Central Asia (CoDoCA);

Towards a new understanding of forests and water - I Calder; T Hofer; S Vermont; Unasylva;

Water, sanitation and hygiene for populations at risk - Action Contre La Faim;

Renewable natural resources management for mountain communities - M Stocking; H Helleman; R White; DFID/ICIMOD;

Goatkeepers' animal health care manual - A F Vatta; M A Abbott; J F de Villiers; Agricultural Research Council;

Communicating disasters: An Asia Pacific resource book - United Nations Development Programme - Regional Centre in Bangkok (UNDP) and Television for Education – Asia Pacific, trading as TVE Asia Pacific;

Growth, poverty alleviation and sustainable resource management in the mountain areas of South Asia - Mahesh Banskota; Trilok S Papola; Jürgen Richter; ICIMOD and Food and Agriculture Development Centre;

Poverty alleviation in mountain areas of China - Narpat S Jodha; Binayak Bhadrra; Narendra R Khanal; ICIMOD;

Developing sustainable communities: A toolkit for development practitioners - Para Limbu; SNV/Nepal;

Impact of contour hedgerows: A case study - Tang Ya; A Beatrice Murray; ICIMOD;

Disaster preparedness for natural hazards: Current status in Nepal - Bhubanesh Kumar Pradhan; ICIMOD;

Using local knowledge to develop soil and water management interventions for minimising soil and nutrient losses in the Middle Hills of Nepal - Pratap Shrestha; Morag McDonald; Anna Lawrence; ICIMOD/DFID;

Nepal biodiversity resource book: Protected Areas, Ramsar Sites and World Heritage Sites - Ukesh Raj Bhuju; Puspa Ratna Shakya; Tej B Basnet; ICIMOD, Government of Nepal and UNEP;

Local knowledge for disaster peparedness: A literature review - Julie Dekens; ICIMOD;

Land Policies, Land Management and Land Degradation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: India Study Report - T N Dhar; ICIMOD;