The Fall of the Water

Editor Dr. Christian Nellemann Global coordinator, GLOBIO UNEP GRID-Arendal, C/O NINA, Fakkelgården, Storhove, N-2624 Lillehammer, Norway Phone + 47 73801616 / + 47 934 66 713 email christian.nellemann@nina.no http://www.globio.info/ Contributors Basanta Shrestha, Suresh Sulise, Gabriel Campbell, Binayak Bhadra, Pradeep Mool, Mandira Shrestha, Lokap Rajbhandari International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) G.P.O. Box 3226, Jawalakhel, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: (977 1) 5525313 Fax:(977 1) 5524509, 5536747 Email: icimod@icimod.org.np www.icimod.org Surendra Shresta, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Purna Chandra Lall Rajbhandari Regional Resource Center- Asia Pacific United Nations Environment Program Asian Institute of Technology GPO Box 4, KlongLuang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand Phone: (66-2)524 6238 (direct) 5162124, 5160110 Dr. Nikhat Sattar Head, Emerging and Emergency Programmes Strategic Planning Team, IUCN Asia Programme, Asia Regional Sub-Office 1, Bath Island Road, Karachi-75530 Pakistan Dr. Ablimit Abdukadir; ErDowlet, I., Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Science. Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, China. Dr. Jiyuan Liu Director General, Professor Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Building 917,Datun Road,Anwai,Beijing 100101,P.R.China Tel:+86 10 6488 9281 Fax:+86 10 6485 1844 Dr. Bibhab Kumar Talukdar Regional Director, ATREE-Eastern Himalaya Programme Bungalow No:2, Bhujiapani, PO: Bagdogra, PIN: 734422, India Tel: 0353-2550093 Telefax: 0353-2551110 www.atree.org Email:liujy@igsnrr.ac.cn http://www.igsnrr.ac.cn Fax: (66-2)524 6233 5162125 http://www.rrcap.unep.org

Dr. Philip Bubb, Ian May, Lera Miles, Julian Caldecott UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP WCMC) 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL UK, Tel +44 (0)1223 277314 Fax +44 (0)1223 277136 email: Philip.bubb@unep-wcmc.org Dr. Joseph L. Fox Department of Biology, Faculty of Science University of Tromsø N-9037 Tromsø, Norway Tel:+47 77 644386 e-mail: joe.fox@ib.uit.no Thomas Puestow Research Scientist C-CORE Captain Robert A. Bartlett Building, Morrissey Road St. John’s, NL, Canada, A1B 3X5 Robert Alkemade, Michel Bakkenes, Bas Eickhout, Ben ten Brink Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (RIVM-NEAA) P.O.Box 1, 3720 BA BILTHOVEN, The Netherlands Hugo Ahlenius; Kathrine Johnsen UNEP/GRID-Arendal Longum Park, Service Box 706, N-4808 Arendal, Norway ahlenius@grida.no http://www.grida.no/ Ingunn Vistnes Agricultural University of Norway, Dept. of Biology and Nature Concervation, P.O. Box 5014, N- 1430 Ås Tel: (709) 737-2586 Fax: (709) 737-4706 E-mail: Thomas.Puestow@c-core.ca

Dr. B. P. Kaltenborn The Kalman Group Lillehammer, Norway

Dr. Jane Uhd Jepsen; Dr. Nina E. Eide Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) Storhove, N-2624 Lillehammer, Norway