Ecotourism is a useful concept, but not a very well defined one. It has been debated in
theory and attempted in practice for nearly two decades. Its key goal is to reduce the net …

Interest in green chemistry and clean processes has grown so much in recent years that
topics such as fluorous biphasic catalysis, metal organic frameworks, and process …

The Kangchenjunga landscape, a transboundary complex shared by Bhutan, India, and
Nepal, is one of the biologically richest regions in the Eastern Himalayas. Owing to the …

The densely populated ecologically sensitive mountain region of the Himalayas under Asian
developing country India, popularly regarded as Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), attracts …

This paper proposes an assessment of “Ecotourism Sustainability” at an operational level
utilizing Principles-Criteria-Indicators-Verifiers, common in forest and tourism sustainability …

Venn diagrams are used to suggest appropriate relationships between ecotourism and other
forms of tourism. It begins by placing ecotourism within the context of other resource-based …

Mountains are critical ecosystems that have a strong influence far beyond their topographic
boundaries. More than 50 million people inhabit the Himalayas, and more than one billion …

Forest cover types, tree distribution pattern, species diversity, net woody biomass
productivity, and firewood extraction rates were studied along a trekking corridor (Yuksam …

Key needs for the creation of a nature reserve system are outlined: formulating goals,
selecting management categories, taking inventory, identifying gaps, designing reserves …

Patterns of higher plant species richness and beta diversity were assessed using standard
Modified-Whittaker plots in relation to landuse, slope position and mean annual rainfall …