International Year of Mountains 2002 Japan
国際山岳年 パートナー
このページでは，国際山岳年の準備にあたり，主要な役割を果たしている組織や機関へのリンクを紹介しています．主なデータはFAOの国際山岳年のページなどから引用しています．順次日本語表記に変えていく予定です．
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www.mountains2002.org
国連食糧農業機関による，国際山岳年2002の公式サイト
国際山岳年2002に関する国際シンポジウム
2001年9月30日ー10月4日 スイス・インターラーケン
国連組織
国連食糧農業機関(FAO)
FAOは、山岳相互エージェンシーグループの支援およびガイダンスを得て、IYMプロセスの全面的な調整を行っています。FAOは，森林部門における持続可能な山岳開発およびWatershed Managementに関するプログラムを通してIYMに注目しています(それはさらに国連のタスクマネージャーアジェンダ21 でもある)。
FAO 山岳プログラム
国連食糧農業機関日本事務所(FAO Liason Office in Japan)
FAO Liason Office in Japanは、FAOの日本事務所です。ただいま国際山岳年の本部ホームページの日本語訳をおこなっています。
国連経済社会部:持続可能な開発部門(国連/DESA/DSD)
DSDは、ニューヨークで毎年開催される持続可能な開発委員会(CSD)の事務局です。CSDは、アジェンダ21（13章）の実施監視を担当しています。CSDの持続可能な山岳開発への進展状況に関する調査は、1995年、1997年および2000年4月5月にそのセッションで発表されました。
国連環境計画(UNEP) (UNEP)
UNEPは、環境情報・アセスメントおよび環境協定を支援し，持続可能な山岳開発をプロモートします。これは、アンデス山脈、Carpathians、コーカサスおよびヒマラヤ山脈での仕事を含んでいます。UNEP-WCMCは，UNEPにおけるIYM活動の中心であり、また世界の山森林の地図を作成しています。
ユネスコ (UNESCO)
ユネスコは、教育、科学および文化における持続可能な山岳開発の重要性を促進します。
Man and the Biosphere Programme
国連大学(UNU)
国連大学は長年にわたって山岳問題を支援してきました。ベルン大学と共同で、持続可能な山岳開発に関する理解を深める包括的なプログラムを開発し，異なる山岳システムの状況，山岳への影響および山岳社会への影響について貢献しようとしています。
自然資源管理
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) centres
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)
国際ジャガイモセンター(CIP)
CIPはアンデス山脈および他の山エリアの農業資源の管理改善につとめています。その研究アジェンダは作物改良および遺伝資源管理、プロダクション・システム・自然資源管理および社会科学を含んでいます。それはCGIARのグローバル山岳プログラムを主催しています。さらにConsorcio para L Desarrollo Sostenibleなde la Ecorregi?n、Andina(CONDESAN)(それはラテンアメリカの山岳フォーラム)の地方支部のリーダーを勤めています。
• CONDESAN
• CGIAR Global Mountain Programme
山岳フォーラム
山岳フォーラムは，公正で持続可能な山岳開発に対して触媒的作用を及ぼす、山岳民族、専門家および組織からなるグローバルネットワークです。それは相互援助や擁護、および提案と情報の交換を促進し、政策決定に対してフィールドからの事例を提供します。活動は地方およびグローバルノードによって調整されています。
グローバル情報サーバー・ノード( (GISN)
GISNは山岳フォーラムに対してコアコミュニケーションおよびグローバル調整サービスを供給します。GISNは、国際的な組織、国連機関および非地域的協賛者を調整し、また地方支部、ネットワークおよび個々のメンバーにサービスを提供します。
North American node
Now under development. Several bodies - including the Mexican Indigenous Association for Sustainable Development, the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture and The Mountain Institute are cooperating in projects leading up to IYM 2002.
African node
Launched in August 1999, the node in currently recruiting members from various mountain regions of Africa and gathering information on projects, sacred mountains, development challenges and successful interventions, available literature, on-going research and policy and legal frameworks. It is also developing mechanisms to promote information exchange and collaborative links between the various mountain regions and communities in Africa.
Asia and Pacific node
The Pacific Mountain Network (APMN), created in 1995, serves as the regional node for the global Mountain Forum. APMN promotes the "mountain agenda" on issues such as poverty alleviation in mountains, environmental management, and advocacy of Agenda 21's Chapter 13.
European node
The European Mountain Forum provides details for joining the network, a newsletter, access to electronic discussion groups and a list of local nodes in the network. French and English.
Latin American node
InfoAndina is the information system for the Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecorregion (CONDESAN).
Other Organizations
African Mountain Association
The Aga-Khan Trust for Culture
Andean Mountains Association (AMA)
The AMA is a scholarly organization that includes faculty and researchers from several universities in Andean countries, both public and private research centres and individual practitioners of sustainable mountain development and conservation of biocultural resources.
Association des Montagnes et des Hautes Terres Malagasy (AMMA)
The AMMA, created in January 2000 is a non-profit organisation focussing on the mountains and highlands of Madagascar. It is a member of the African Mountain Association.
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
European Observatory of Mountain Forests (EOMF)
The EOMF was established in 1996 on the request of the European Federation of Local Forest Communities (FECOF) as a permanent independent forum for the development, monitoring and evaluation of the sustainable management of mountain forests.
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
The GEF is a multilateral mechanism that assists developing countries and countries with economies in transition to protect the global environment. As part of its mandate, the Facility supports projects that help protect biodiversity in mountain ecosystems in East Africa, Central Asia, Bhutan, Colombia, Lebanon, Lesotho and Malawi.
Global Mountain Biodivesity Assessment (GMBA)
GMBA is a global DIVERSITAS network on mountain biodiversity research and aims to document the great biological richness of the mountains of the world. It also monitors changes in mountain biodiversity caused by direct or indirect human influences in order to gain knowledge on the preservation of mountain diversity and the sustainable development of rural mountain areas.
International Biodiversity Observation Year 2001-2002
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
ICIMOD promotes integrated mountain development and seeks to improve the living standards of mountain populations of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan). It is a multidisciplinary focal point for documentation, information, research and training, and provides expert services for the Hindu Kush-Himalayan countries.
International Geographical Union (IGU)
International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme
International Mountain Society (IMS)
International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO)
International University of Kyrgyzstan
Italian IYM National Committee
The Italian IYM Committee was founded by a select group of important authorities from both the public and private sector who deal regularly with mountain issues in Italy and abroad. The mission of the Italian IYM Committee is to address those themes that aid in reaching the general objects set for the IYM by the United Nations.
The Mountain Institute
The Mountain Institute's mission is to advance mountain cultures and preserve mountain environments. Its programmes are designed to conserve mountain eco-systems, increase sustainable livelihoods for mountain communities, and promote the Mountain Agenda through advocacy, education and outreach for mountain communities. Current work centres on the Andes, Appalachian and Himalayan ranges and global networking through the Mountain Forum.
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF)
The SLF conducts research on snow cover, snow ecology, avalanches and risk assessment. Research and services are directed to protection and prevention against natural hazards. The SLF also hosts the National Competence Centre for Natural Hazards, coordinates the IUFRO Task Force on Mountain Forests and has a new research section 'Zufunft Alpenraum' for research on integrated mountain development.
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
IUCN promotes sustainable mountain development through activities such as the Mountain Theme of its World Commission on Protected Areas, with its network and newsletter for protected area managers and scientists, and the IUCN Forests and Protected Areas Programmes, which deal with mountain forest sustainability, and many projects in its various regional and country offices.
World Commission on Protected Areas (CNPPA/IUCN)
World Mountaineering & Climbing Federation (UIAA)
Inter-Agency Group on Mountains
Listed below are organizations that have contributed to the work of the Inter-Agency Group on Mountains, but are not yet IYM partners.
UN organizations
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
In WMO, the World Climate Research Programme studies the effects of mountains on atmospheric processes and circulation, the Atmospheric Research and Environment Programme supports the Mesoscale Alpine Project (MAP) in Europe, and the Hydrology and Water Resources Programme is concerned with the assessment of water resources and forecasting of hydrological extremes in mountainous regions.
Other organizations
International Centre for Alpine Environments (ICALPE)
ICALPE is an international, non-governmental, scientific organization that promotes integration of conservation and development in Europe's mountains through coordinated research projects and advice to policymakers. It helped organize the European Intergovernmental Consultation on Sustainable Mountain Development, (1996) and produced in 1998 a report for the European Parliament on a policy for mountain regions.
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
