Establishing global monitoring system for mountain zone management

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends initiating a global observing system of parameters needed for the rational management of mountain zones and significantly expanding freshwater quantity/quality monitoring systems, particularly in developing countries.

1. Protecting mountain habitats
2. Monitoring global environment
3. Developing a multidisciplinary ecological knowledge base on mountain ecosystems
4. Creating new systems
5. Advancing environmentally sound technology and management systems
6. Initiating-Terminating

1. Linking data systems related to forest management
2. Identifying mountain areas threatened by pollution

1. Training mountain communities in integrated environmental management
2. Improving international coordination on mountain development

1. Nonglobalized
2. Mismanagement