Governance: Key for Environmental Sustainability in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

Publication Date:  05 January 2019 Online

Editors: Hemant Raj Ojha, Rucha Ghate, Lam Dorji, Ankita Shrestha, 

Dinesh Paudel, Andrea Nightingale, Krishna Shrestha, Muhammad 

Arif Watto and Rajan Kotru

ISBN: 978-3-319-92288-1    

Pages: 545-578

Abstract

The governance of environmental resources holds the key to the future of sustainable development in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). 1. Institutional innovation—for landscape level governance, upstream-downstream linkages, and for translating policy goals into action; 2. Upscaling and institutionalizing decentralized and community based resource management practices; 3. Transboundary cooperation for managing connected landscapes; and 4. Science–policy–practice interface for decision making, learning and effective implementation of policies and programs.

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