Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at the Crossroad

Contents: Preface. Environmental resource base: potentialities and opportunities: 1. Sustainable land management in the mountainous regions. 2. Biological diversity: present status and agenda for conservation. 3. Hydro resources for energy development: plan, policy and performance. 4. Wetland conservation: a vision for sustainable management. Harmonising environment and development: 5. Development scenario: an overview. 6. A contribution to the medicinal plant-lore of Hilly areas of the Central Development Region, Nepal. 7. Need of environment friendly approach to road development in Nepal. 8. Ethnobotanical study of some wild food plants of two villages of the Bagmati Watershed, Nepal. 9. Environmental implications for Mountain Tourism Development. 10. Trail bridge development in Nepal: approach, action and accomplishment. Environmental management for sustainable development: 11. EIA: a tool for sustainable environmental management case studies -- EIA of East Rapti Irrigation Project and IEE of Proposed Rhododendron Conservation Area. 12. Environmental management in South Asia.

From the preface: "The present book specially tried to explore the existing status and scenario in the area of integrating environmental dimension with the sustainable development at regional as well as national level. The development policy, plan and programmes vis-a-vis environmental actions for sustainable development have already initiated in the framework of integration in Nepal, particularly since nineties. The book, therefore, also attempts to assess of the constraints and lacunas surfaced both at the policy and program as well as at implementation level. Finally effort has been made to recommend future course of actions from the Nepalese perspectives, for maintaining balance between socio-economic needs of the people and the capacity of the earth\'s ecosystems so as to fulfill the needs of present and future generations."