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specialists, civil society organizations, and government agencies and to
support capacity building activities through focussed education, training
and research. Further, in order to build resilient mountain social-ecological
systems, the support and cooperation of civil society, including Non-
Government Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs),
the private sector, educational and research institutions would be inevitable.
These institutions play effective role in sensitizing policy planners, decision
makers and society at large about the importance and signifi cance of
mountain eco-systems in sustaining global society as well as about their
fragility, marginality, vulnerability and the emerging opportunities.
Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain
Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal and Food and Agricultural
Organization (FAO), Rome for having kindly granted permission to
reproduce a number of maps, diagrams, tables and other information from
their different publications in this paper.
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