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Chapters: Kagbeni, Mustang, Thuli Pokhari, Lete, Nepal, Marpha, Pang, Dhawalagiri, Pakhapani, Dhawalagiri, Tukuche, Gurja Khani, Fulebas Khanigaun, Bitalawa Pipaltari, Bihadi Ranipani, Bihadi Barachaur, Chhusang, Falebas Devisthan, Limithana, Bhakunde, Amalachaur, Deupurkot, Chhonhup, Arthar Dadakharka, Falamkhani, Charang, Nepal, Bhoksing, Lunkhu Deurali, Histhan Mandali, Jhong, Jyamrukot, Chhoser, Shankar Pokhari, Dhairing, Jabdi, Dhawalagiri, Dagnam, Dhatan, Urampokhara, Batakachaur, Darwang, Nagliwang, Thapathana, Chuwa, Babiyachaur, Mudikuwa, Bhuktangle, Hosrangdi, Arthunge, Lekhfant, Shivalaya, Bhorle, Dhawalagiri, Pangrang, Hatiya, Dhawalagiri, Chitre, Khurkot, Kusmishera, Bachchha, Surkhang, Deurali, Dhawalagiri, Salija, Tilahar, Kurgha, Dhawalagiri, Argal, Jaljala, Dhawalagiri, Bajung, Pakuwa, Taklak, Huwas, Kyang, Khunga, Baglung, Bhangara, Nepal, Sukhaura, Dhami, Nepal, Kowang, Balakot, Nepal, Tribeni, Nepal, Durlung, Dhawalagiri, Kunjo, Thana Maulo, Jhin, Arman, Nepal, Karkineta, Bima, Nepal, Dana, Nepal, Dowa, Nepal, Boharagaun, Baranja, Nepal, Burtiwang, Ramja Deurali, Binamare, Bhakilmi, Bahaki Thanti, Saraukhola, Bihunkot, Ranasinkiteni, Chhisti, Saligram, Nepal, Dhamja, Pandavkhani, Bowang, Gwalichaur, Sisakhani, Dhullubaskot, Lekhani, Dhawalagiri, Narethanti, Behulibans, Amarbhumi, Rayadanda, Devisthan, Parbat, Kandebas, Singana, Mallaj Majhfant, Devisthan, Myagdi, Khukhani, Rajkut, Khola Lakuri, Tara, Nepal, Tanglekot, Baskharka, Righa, Damek, Nepal, Dhullu Gaidi, Begkhola, Kuhunkot, Adhikarichaur, Bhimpokhara, Tangram, Nepal, Malika, Dhawalagiri, Bhimgithe, Taman, Nepal, Malma, Nepal, Rangkhani, Nisi, Nepal, Resh, Nepal, Bhakuride, Narayansthan, Devisthan, Baglung, Paiyunnyap, Daga Tumdada, Salyan, Baglung, Dudhilamati, Praiyunpata, Bungadovan, Hudgisheer, Kalika, Baglung, Mulpani, Dhawalagiri, Heele, Harichaur, Tityang, Arjewa, Bhuk Deurali, Palakot, Darling, Dhawalagiri, Sunkhani, Baglung, Ghorepani, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19511678 ... Read more

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Le Népal ou République démocratique fédérale du Népal, est un pays de l'Himalaya, enclavé, bordé au nord par la Chine (région autonome du Tibet), au sud, à l'ouest et à l'est par l'Inde. Bien que petit, le Népal possède une très grande variété de paysages, s'étendant du tropical humide du Teraï, au sud, jusqu'aux plus hautes montagnes du monde, au nord. Le Népal possède huit montagnes parmi les dix plus hautes du monde, dont l'Everest (Sagarmatha en népalais) qui marque la frontière avec la Chine. Le Népal a été rendu célèbre pour les possibilités qu'il offre pour le tourisme, le trekking, l'alpinisme, le VTT, les safaris, le rafting et ses nombreux temples et lieux de cultes. Katmandou est la capitale (politique et religieuse) du Népal, dont elle est largement la plus grande ville. Les autres principales villes sont Pokhara, Biratnagar, Lalitpur (Patan), Bhaktapur, Birendranagar, Hetauda, Butwal, Bharatpur, Siddhartanagar (Bhairahawa), Birganj, Janakpur, Nepalganj, Hetauda, Dharan, Dhangadhi, et Mahendranagar. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousands (sometimes tens of thousands), Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon, as well as Hampstead Village in the London conurbation. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. ... Read more

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Although Nepal has a very long history of labourmigration and foreign employment, recently it hasbecome one of the major ways of earning amongNepalese youngsters. Nepalese are working abroad asskilled, semi skilled and largely as unskilledlabourers especially in India, Gulf States andMalaysia. Migrants are sending money to their familyand changes are seen in socio-economic and culturalactivities. People have different motives formigration and area of remittance investment variesamong migrants. Foreign employment has broughtseveral impacts in rural economy, agriculture andsocial cohesion. Farmers have developed their ownlabour system, organized local institutions,utilized their own resources and introducedtechnology to overcome the labour scarcity andminimize the impacts of labour migration. Addressingon these relevant and emerging issues of ruralNepalese villages and farmers, this book will beuseful for researchers and different organizationsworking in the field of international labourmigration in developing countries. In this book,therefore, author tries to give an interesting andchanging picture of rural Nepal by foreignemployment. ... Read more

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The changes from traditional to modern production system from 1980 to 2002 are resulted due to interactions of various 'fields' such as economy, ecology, off-farm employment and politics that brought changes in the agricultural landscape. This study has demonstrated the dynamic interactions of farmers¿ access to and availability of different resources through road networks, social networks and markets that have brought changes in the farming system.It is because of changing production system, previously unused and marginal lands are now converted to high value cash crops that has resulted the changes in human perception to land, the produces and the social groups living there.Moreover, farmers have started growing fodder trees and private forest due to which forest coverage has increased, landslide and gullies are better managed, hence there is less soil erosion and sedimentation to downstream. These changes in agriculture and environment are neither just an intensification nor involution; rather it is understood as agricultural evolution. ... Read more

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The phrase Inner Terai Valleys or Bhitri tarai refers to various elongated valleys in Nepal lying between the Himalayan foothills, the 600-900 metre high Chure or Siwalak Range, and the 2,000-3,000 metre high Mahabharat Range further north. Major examples are the Chitwan Valley southwest of Kathmandu and the parallel Dang and Deukhuri Valleys in western Nepal. Similar valleys in India are called Dun or Doon after Dehradun.(Outer Terai refers to the plains extending south of the Chure Siwalik Hills to the border with India. ... Read more

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This study explores the livelihood strategy and occupational vulnerability of street occupants, who are using urban open space as resource for livelihoods in rapidly changing urban morphology of Kathmandu, Nepal. Mostly, economically weak, disadvantaged group, poor and squatters are involving in this profession. Vending business in the city has become a part of the socio-economic fabric due to the heavy increase of population migrated from the surrounding districts and neighboring country India. Poverty, socio-political evil and natural disasters are promoting causes in their home towns to undertake the present vending business in Kathmandu. Street occupants are sustaining livelihood by ignoring the authorities and coping with shocks and seasonality by selling goods in convenient location. Mostly vendors felt that their occupation is sustainable but their vending place is vulnerable. An immediate urban development plan - especially focusing on street occupants - is essential from the related government institutions. The positive attitude of authority could help to reduce the vulnerability of the livelihood of street occupants of Kathmandu. ... Read more

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The brink and pedantic forecast of the World Bankregarding forest depletion in Nepal proved wrongwith the success of community forestry. This bookdeals with dimensions of community forestry and isbased on a case study: Kumariban community forest.Community forestry has replenished greenery in thedenuded hills however most of the poor and deprivedpeople have not benefitted from the programme. Thisbook takes a balanced perspective and is intendedfor general readers and students having interest oncommunity forestry in Nepal. ... Read more

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The book deals with livelihood practice of ruralpeople of Nepal. Agricultural intensification, diversification, modification and change aslivelihood strategies of rural people after theconnection of road with urban centres have been takeas an issue to analyse. The text mainly exploresthat with easy access of motorable road, ruralpeople have been able to improve their livingstandard through intensifying and diversifying theiragricultural practice and modifying everyday liferural activities. Focusing on the issues relating torural livelihood, development interventions,livelihood diversification and modification; thisbook will be useful to those who are interested tolook the issues in development discourseparticularly working within the field of rurallivelihoods of developing countries. Throughout thisbook, the author draws his own experience in orderto offer a personal glimpse into the changes ofrural livelihood strategies of developing countrieswith particular focus of development interventions. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Railways in Nepal hardly exist before 2008. The nearest are generally lines and branches of Indian Railways which reach the border with Nepal or run a short distance over the border into the plains of Nepal. total: 59 km; between Janakpur and Jainagar, close to Indian border narrow gauge: 59 km of 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge. In 2008, serious proposals surfaced to build a link from Lhasa in Tibet, China to Nepal. There is only a railway in the southern part of Nepal, bordering India. The capital, Kathmandu, has no railway connections at all. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Railway stations in Nepal. Nepal is sparsely served by railways although new railways are planned. A number of branch lines of Indian Railways come close to the border with Nepal, though the maps are too coarse to tell. Indian Railways, is the state-owned railway company of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. Indian Railways has the largest rail network in Asia and the world's second largest under one management, transporting 20 million passengers and more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily. ... Read more

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For the developing world, the impacts of climate change - from sea level rise and more potent and erratic precipitation patterns to rapid deglaciation - are becoming an increasingly frightening reality.Adaptation planning has thus become critical for policymakers in developing countries as these impacts begin to have serious detrimental economic and social implications.Due to a lack of data in many regions, the difficulty of scaling down global circulation models to the country level, and the relative nascence of adaptation theory and policy, however, there is little guidance as to what interventions are likely to be most effective, especially in post-conflict developing countries that face a number of institutional capacity constraints due to years of instability.Focusing on one such highly vulnerable country, this analysis assesses the challenges facing effective adaptation in Nepal and offers recommendations for policy makers moving forward. ... Read more

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Agriculture and livestock rearing are the major livelihood earning activities of many people of Trans-Himalayan villages of Nepal, which are not possible without relying on the availability of and the accessibility to Common-Pool Resources (CPRs) such as forest, water and pastureland. Villagers need forest for pastureland and fodder for their livestock, firewood for their household use, humus, litter, and compost for the agriculture. Some villagers collect tree leaves to construct the roof of their house. Villagers need water for irrigation and drinking purposes. Thus, it is found that villagers are absolutely relying on CPRs for their agriculture and livestock activities. However, at present, the CPRs are being managed by Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), which previously were being managed by villagers themselves. Even though ACAP has done some important development and awareness programmes such as construction of trail, water reservoir, drinking water pipe distribution, help to construct fences for the agriculture fields; villagers? are not satisfied with ACAP mainly because it does not distribute poorji (a permission letter to cut the timber from the forest) in time. ... Read more

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From the author: DR. STEVENS is an associate professor of geography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01355.

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Title: Fieldwork as Commitment.
Author: Stan Stevens
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Page: 66(8)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sadi is a village development committee in Rupandehi District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4008 people living in 621 individual households. Rupandehi District, a part of Lumbini Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Siddharthanagar as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,360 km² and has a population (2001) of 708,419. Lumbini Zone is one of the 14 zones of Nepal and is home to Lumbini site, the birth place of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became the historical Buddha and founder of the Buddhist philosophy. The zone's headquarters is Butwal. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Chitwan National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Since the end of the 19th century Chitwan - Heart of the Jungle used to be a favorite hunting ground for Nepals ruling class during the winter seasons. Until the 1950s the journey from Kathmandu to Nepals South was arduous as the area could only be reached by foot. Thus, in an area known as Four Mile Forest ( ) comfortable camps were set up for the feudal big game hunters and their entourage, where they stayed for a couple of months shooting hundreds of tigers, rhinocerosses, leopards and sloth bears.In 1950 Chitwans forest and grasslands extended over more than 2,600 km and was home to about 800 rhinos. When poor farmers from the mid-hills moved to the Chitwan Valley in search of arable land, the area was subsequently opened for settlement, and poaching of wildlife became rampant. In 1957 the country's first conservation law inured to the protection of rhinos and their habitat. In 1959 Edward Pritchard Gee undertook a survey of the area, recommended creation of a protected area north of the Rapti river and of a wildlife sanctuary south of the river for a trial period of ten years . After his subsequent survey of Chitwan in 1963, this time for both the Fauna Preservation Society and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, he recommended extension of the sanctuary to the south .However, by the end of the 1960s 70% of Chitwans jungles were cleared using DDT, thousands of people had settled there, and only 95 rhinos remained. The dramatic decline of the rhino population and the extent of poaching prompted the government to institute the Gaida Gasti a rhino reconnaissance patrol of 130 armed men and a network of guard posts all over Chitwan. To prevent the extinction of rhinos ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2144959 ... Read more

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The Indian sub-continent abounds in flora and fauna and still offers a ground for botanists, and ornithologists. ... Read more

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Title: Nepal: Development and Change in a Landlocked Himalayan Kingdom. (book reviews)
Author: Antonia Hussey
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1995
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v85Issue: n2Page: p251(2)

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