CONSERVATION OF THE NEPALESB HERiTAGE STATB OF THE ART
by RicD:J.i Pradhan
Nepal has a very rieh eultural heritage and in the recent years ha!l joined the World Heritage Convention.
The valley or Kalhmandu as a whole is now a heritage sile and sever-.iI project" have been initiated with the support or UNESCO and national organisations and rountlations. We would like t(l present here Ihe lalest state or the ar1 on Conservation activities in Ncpal,
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monumenU ,
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of I\.IlunJ and historical cnvirunrn&:1I1S
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c~pLonlion Qf monumo::nlS and di5pllY of docllmcllls
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THE JHIKHU KHOLA WATERSHED PROJECT'
P .B. Shah and H. Schrr:i.cr
Overview of tbc waknbed study
(iivcn the la(:k of long-term information on land use, resource degradation, sediment Iransporl and soil fertility in Nepal. it was decided in 19119 to use the Jhikhu Knola watershed as the key
re~earch area for a long-term monitoring programme. With tne support of the International Development Research Development Centre (lORe), Canada, wc focused our research on documenting climatic cunditions, soil erosion, sedimcnt transport and redistribution, stream now. irrigation, deforestation, agricultural inlensifieation. soil fertility, socin-eennomie conditions and population growth in the watershed, Afier the first three years, wc then initiated a number of smaller projects which allempted to translate our gained knowledge
int\l developmcnt efforts. The~e activities included the construction (If
a suspen.~ion bridge, upgrading of rural water supply systcms, reclamation of degraded areas, electrification of three houses with slllar-pnwered photovoltaic cells. and introduction of a water- conserving trickle irrigation systcm. Computcr technology was used in monitoring as wcll as in data organisation, and a PC-based (icugrarhie Information System (GIS) wa.~ used as the main tool for data integration and modelling.
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