Kathmandu, Nepal

Email: kuhimal@ku.edu.np

The Symposium represents the culmination of the second phase of the NUFU supported project "Education, Research and Training for Sustainable Management of Himalayan Watersheds" (HIMUNET), which has been a network project among four universities in the Himalaya and University of Life Sciences in Norway. Papers and posters are called for presentation under following thematic areas:
 Forests, biodiversity and ecosystem carbon sequestration
 Socioeconomic and interdisciplinary issues on environmental change
 Soil physiochemical and biological quality and ecosystem health
 Water resources and quality
 Watershed rehabilitation, upstream/downstream linkages and payment for ecosystem services
 River and lake physiochemical and bio-monitoring
 Geoinformatics/remote sensing applications in natural resource management
 Climate change impacts and adaptive/mitigative strategies