Environmental protection & community development in the Tibetan Plateau region of China

青藏高原地区环境保护与社区发展

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Plateau Perspectives is an international NGO that helps Tibetan communities and government leaders find long-term solutions to promote more sustainable livelihoods, to improve local people's quality of life and  to protect the natural environment  - as an expression of practical Christian love for the world.

Program areas include the Environmental Protection, Basic Education, Community Health and Income Generation. Special attention is also given to an important cross-sectoral theme, Gender Equity, and as the need arises, to Social Assistance.

Plateau Perspectives (PP) has five distinctive characteristics:

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PP integrates the conservation of biodiversity and community development

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PP considers the "local" – environments, cultures, and indigenous knowledge

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PP seeks to achieve sustainability in all fields of work

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PP aims to develop successful replicable models of development

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PP develops partnerships with local communities, government and NGOs

All these factors help ensure that the work remains focussed on the local people and their environment. Such a focus is essential to attain long-term success.

Specifically, since its foundation Plateau Perspectives has undertaken several important projects, most in close collaboration with the local Upper Yangtze Organization, including:

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Upper Yangtze Project, with the Biodiversity Working Group, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment & Development (1998 - 2002)

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Partnership in the Village and Township Doctor Training Program in Shannan Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, with British NGO Kunde Foundation (2000 - 2001)

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Environmental Education Teacher Training Workshop on the Tibetan Plateau, with Chinese NGO Friends of Nature (2001, 2002)

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Health Status and Risk Factors of Nomadic Pastoralists in Southern Qinghai Province, with the University of Montreal and Health Bureau of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (2001 - 2004)

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Yangtze Headwaters Sustainable Development Project, with the Government of Zhiduo County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (2003 - present)

 

Plateau Perspectives © 2003-2008

http://www.plateauperspectives.org

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