Event & Workshop Reports

SECOND SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT

India Mountain Initiative (25th - 26th May, 2012) - Gangtok

The Indian Mountain Initiative (IMI) proposes to reinforce, with some significant modifications, what the first Seminar held by CHEA in October 1983 attempted to do a quarter century ago, namely pioneering a move to catalyze and galvanize scientists, administrators, social workers and development practitioners to collectively reflect on, not only, degeneration of the environment but also on its intrinsic relationship with development.

The Sustainable Mountain Development Agenda, the legacy of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 ("Earth Summit"), must now be discussed more horizontally and vertically, and much more frequently than a few stand-alone seminars and workshops allow for. Accordingly, IMI has chosen to undertake open and continuous dialogue on mountain concerns through Annual Thematic Summits and by encouraging the establishment of thematic networks on various mountain themes and concerns. In this sprit, the First Sustainable Mountain Development Summit of IMI organized in Naini Tal on the 21st and the 22nd of May, 2011 and Second Sustainable Mountain Development Summit of IMI organized in Gangtok, Sikkim on the 25th and 26th of May, 2012.

INAUGURAL SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT

India Mountain Initiative - (21st - 22nd May, 2011) - Nainital

The Indian Mountain Initiative (IMI) proposes to reinforce, with some significant modifications, what the first Seminar held by CHEA in October 1983 attempted to do a quarter century ago, namely pioneering a move to catalyze and galvanize scientists, administrators, social workers and development practitioners to collectively reflect on, not only, degeneration of the environment but also on its intrinsic relationship with development.

The Sustainable Mountain Development Agenda, the legacy of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 ("Earth Summit"), must now be discussed more horizontally and vertically, and much more frequently than a few stand-alone seminars and workshops allow for. Accordingly, IMI has chosen to undertake open and continuous dialogue on mountain concerns through Annual Thematic Summits and by encouraging the establishment of thematic networks on various mountain themes and concerns. In this sprit, the First Sustainable Mountain Development Summit of IMI organized in Naini Tal on the 21st and the 22nd of May, 2011.