Sumitra gurung biography definition
Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry....
मेरो नाम सुमित्रा गुरूङ् हो। My name is Sumitra Gurung.
Beyond the Myth of Eco-Crisis: Local Response to Pressure on :A Study of Kakani in the Middle Hills
Back in the 1800s, Kakani, in the hills north of Balaju, was the only place outside Kathmandu Valley that the British Residents were allowed to visit.
They went there for picnics and spectacular views of Ganesh Himal. Today, the whole country is open to travel and research, but Kakani remains special.
Since 1979, Kakani has hosted studies on the cause and effects of land degradation (soil erosion, landslides, mass wasting) in the hills.
The focus has been on an ecological collapse considered so severe that some foreign experts call it an “eco-crisis”. Nepal, they say, is a land suffering immense “despoliation” and “tragedy” and the rural poor are “the primary agents of destruction” acting “out of desperation, ignorance, shortsightedness or greed”.
This prognosis is grave and the charges serious, all the more so coming fro