Towards a GIS-based analysis of mountain environments and populations
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Sustainable Development Department; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food Security and Agricultural Projects Analysis Service; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Economic and Social Department; Istituto nazionale per la ricerca scientifica e tecnologica sulla montagna; International Year of Mountains (2002)
Series: Environment and natural resources working paper -- no. 10; Environment and natural resources working paper -- no. 10.
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Subjects: Mountain ecology; Geographic information systems; Mountains; Environmental aspects; Mountain people
Other titles: Hacia un análisis del medio ambiente y las poblaciones de las zonas montañosas utilizando SIG; Vers une analyse des environnements et des populations de montagne par système d'information géographique
Description: This report applies GIS techniques and newly available geo-referenced data to understand conditions underlying poverty and hunger in the world, with special reference to mountain environments and populations. Following the system developed by the United Nations Environment Programme--World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) in 2000 for classifying mountain areas, hilly as well as high mountain areas are covered by the analysis. New data about global population density from the LandScan 2000 map has made it possible to estimate population figures for each mountain area class, as well as for other parameters about agricultural land use, farming systems, environmental constraints and yields per person that contribute to the estimation of the number of vulnerable rural mountain people.
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