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Pamir
No full textUnder the ownership of F. Laeisz, Pamir for the first quarter century of its career sailed from the west coast of South America and Europe with nitrates. In 1931, Pamir was sold to Gustav Erikson and began hauling grain from Australia to Europe until 1941 when Pamir was seized as a prize of war. Returned after the war, the ship was to be scrapped but was saved at the bell by turning the ship into a schoolship along with Passat. Pamir was lost with 80 of 86 men in a hurricane off the Azores in 1957.
There are lots of images of Pamir, some literally unforgettable. This one is different. Taken from the mizzen course yard, it clearly shows Pamir wafting along at good speed. Halyard winches, midships bridge deck, and deck bridge between forecastle and bridge deck are all clearly visible.Ship Name: Pamir; Sailed: 1905-1957; Type: Steel 4-masted bark; Built by: Hamburg, Germany by Blohm & Voss; Dimensions: 316' x 46' x 26.2'; Tonnage: 3020 tons
Towards Sustainable Land Management in the Pamir-Alai Mountains
No full textThis Policy Brief presents the findings of the Sustainable Land Management in the Pamir-Alai Mountains (PALM) project. It contains targeted recommendations, best practices and generic guidelines in the field of sustainable land management and ecosystem conservation for the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai mountain areas in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Pamir and Rahila
Full text linkPamir is from Afghanistan. He is a Hazarah, an ethnic minority group in Afghanistan. The Taliban hates his people. Nearly every member of his family has bullet wounds and war scars. His father was shot during the Mujahedin War and still has bullets in his leg. His older brother is blind in one eye and is still in Iran. His other brother was shot in the head and killed somewhere between the age of thirteen and fifteen. They escaped to Iran from Afghanistan, but the police caught Pamir and took him to a camp. They told him he could either go fight in the war in Syria or they would drop him off on the border of Afghanistan. The family somehow got away and came to Oinofyata Refugee Camp in Greece. Pamir just wants to go somewhere safe and start a new life away from bloodshed and war. They have tents provided by the UN, but still await further aid.https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/tsos_interviews/1013/thumbnail.jp
Strategy and Action Plan for Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains
Full text linkThis Strategy and Action Plan was written within the framework of the project on Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains (PALM). PALM is an integrated transboundary initiative of the governments of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan. It aims to address the interlinked problems of land degradation and poverty within a region that is one of Central Asia’s crucial sources of freshwater and a location of biodiversity hotspots. The project is executed by the Committee on Environment Protection in Tajikistan and the National Center for Mountain Regions Development in Kyrgyzstan, with fi nancial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and other donors. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the GEF Implementing Agency for the project, and the United Nations University (UNU) is the International Executing Agency. This Strategy and Action Plan integrates the work of three main teams of experts, namely the Pamir-Alai Transboundary Strategy and Action Plan (PATSAP) team, the Legal Task Forces, and a team of Natural Disaster Risk specialists. The PATSAP team was coordinated by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland. The Legal Task Force was led by the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law of the University of New England (UNE), and responsibility for the Natural Disaster Risk assessment was with the Central- Asian Institute of Applied Geosciences (CAIAG) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The development of the strategy took place from June 2009 to October 2010. The activities included fi eld study tours for updating the information base with fi rst-hand information from the local level, coordination meetings with actors from the region, and two multi-level stakeholder forums conducted in Khorog and Osh to identify priorities and to collect ideas for concrete action plans. The baseline information collected for the Strategy and Action Plan has been compiled by the experts and made available as reports1. A joint multi-level stakeholder forum was conducted in Jirgitol, Tajikistan, for in-depth discussion of the transboundary aspects. In August 2010, the draft Strategy and Action Plan was distributed among local, national, and international actors for consultation, and their comments were discussed at feedback forums in Khorog and Bishkek. This Strategy and Action Plan is intended as a recommendation. Nevertheless, it proposes concrete mechanisms for implementing the proposed sustainable land management (SLM) activities: The Regional Natural Resources Governance Framework provides the legal and policy concepts, principles, and regulatory requirements needed to create an enabling environment for SLM in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai region at the transboundary, national, and local levels. The priority directions outlined provide a framework for the elaboration of rayon-level strategies and for strategies on specifi c topics (forestry, livestock, etc.), as well as for further development of government programmes and international projects. The action plans may serve as a pool of concrete ideas, which can be taken up by diff erent institutions and in smaller or larger projects. Finally, this document provides a basis for the elaboration and signing of targeted cooperation agreements on land use and management between the leaders of Osh oblast (Kyrgyz Republic), Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, and Jirgitol rayon (Republic of Tajikistan)
Report 1: Framework and Technical Guidelines for Monitoring the Implementation of Legislation Relevant to SLM in Pamir-Alai
No full textComponent 1.2 of Phase I of the PALM project provided an opportunity for Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to improve their understanding of their legislative and policy systems for sustainable land management (SLM) by examining several national, international and transboundary laws, policies and institutional arrangements that apply to the High Pamir and Pamir Alai region. It was found that many of the principles, procedures and lessons learned from this analysis could be extrapolated to other parts of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and possibly to other mountain regions of the world. The Final Report of UNE specified that the development of policy and legislation for the PALM region would be enriched through the implementation of SLM and more active public participation. It pointed out that Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan could significantly benefit from drawing on key international strategies and conventions to evaluate and frame laws for SLM. A number of priorities for reform identified by Component 1.2 including: the development of integrated law to manage mountain ecosystems and revise existing SLM laws; making existing legal systems more efficient through the development of coordination and implementation mechanisms and strengthening operational procedures, and by monitoring the implementation of existing laws for SLM; and improving the capacity for enforcement. The PALM region administrative system could be reformed by introducing specialist legislative procedures to remove overlap in institutional roles and unclear relationships between different authorities and departments; remove inconsistencies between administrative powers and scientific practices, and by improving public supervision of law enforcement authorities. Monitoring the effectiveness of existing SLM will provide information to help justify the reform of individual laws, policy and institutions for SLM
Khalifa of Pamir, Custodians of Knowledge
Full text linkThis paper explores both social role and spiritual functions of the local religious leaders in Tajikistan sector of Pamir mountains, called Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast. This remote and isolated mountainous region is criss-crossed by the state borders of China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan and serves as the abode for several obscure ethnic groups that since long have adopted Ismailism, an esoteric branch of Shia Islam. The leader of Ismaili Aga Khan IV helped local people to survive horrors of civil war that ravaged this region in the 1990s, and now effectively administer Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast through the network oh his local representatives called khalifa. They act as community leaders solving the problems of ordinary villagers of Pamir, yet at the same time they help esoteric Gnostic knowledge of Ismailism to be kept safe in this remotest part of the globe. The paper concludes that this became possible due to innate characteristics of local people, who are not only knowledge-thirsty, but also knowledge-loya
Intracontinental subduction beneath the Pamir Mountains: Constraints from thermokinematic modeling of shortening in the Tajik fold-and-thrust belt
No full textA regional, balanced cross section is presented for the thin-skinned Tajik fold-andthrust belt, constrained by new structural and stratigraphic data, industrial well-log data, flexural modeling, and existing geologic and geophysical mapping. A sequential restoration of the section was calibrated with 15 new apatite (U-Th)/He ages and 7 new apatite fission-track ages from samples of the major thrust sheets within the Tajik fold-and-thrust belt. Thermokinematic modeling indicates that deformation in the Tajik fold-and-thrust belt began during the Miocene (prior to or ca. 17 Ma) and continues to near present, with long-term shortening rates of ~ 4-6 mm/yr and Pliocene to present rates of ~ 6-8 mm/yr. The Tajik fold-and-thrust belt can be characterized as two distinct, oppositely verging thrust belts. Deformation initiated at opposite margins of the Tajik foreland basin, adjacent the southwest Tian Shan and northwest Pamir Mountains, and propagated toward the center of the basin, eventually incorporating the foreland basin entirely into a composite fold-and-thrust belt. The western Tajik fold-and-thrust belt records at least 35-40 km of total shortening and is part of the greater Tian Shan orogenic system. The eastern Tajik fold-and-thrust belt records ~ 30 km of shortening linked to the Pamir Mountains. The amount of shortening in theTajik fold-and-thrust belt is significantly less than predicted by models of intracontinental subduction, which call for subduction of an ~ 300-km-long slab of continental Tajik-Tarim lithosphere beneath the Pamir. Field observations and structural relationships suggest that the Mesozoic and younger sedimentary rocks of the Tajik Basin were deposited on and across the Northern Pamir terrane and then subsequently uplifted and eroded during orogenic growth, rather than undergoing subduction beneath the Pamir. The Paleozoic-Proterozoic(?) metasedimentary and igneous rocks exposed in the Northern Pamir terrane are equivalent to the middle-lower crust of the Tajik Basin, which has become incorporated into the Pamir orogen. We propose that the southdipping zone of deep seismicity beneath the Pamir, which is the basis for the intracontinental subduction model, is related to gravitational foundering (by delamination or large-scale dripping) of Pamir lower crust and mantle lithosphere. This contrasts with previous models that related the Pamir seismic zone to subduction with or without rollback of Asian lithosphere. Delamination may explain the initiation of extension in the Pamir gneiss domes and does not require a change in plate boundary forces to switch between compressional and extensional regimes. Because the Pamir is the archetype for active subduction of continental lithosphere in the interior of continental plates (intracontinental subduction), the viability of this particular tectonic process may need to be reassessed
Pamir alpine desert and tundra
No full textThe Pamir is a high plateau located at the intersection of the world's tallest mountains of the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Kunlun, and Tian Shan regions. These mountains are sometimes referred as the Roof of the World. The Pamir is shared by Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. Due to its geopolitical importance, sometimes it is referred to as the Pamir Knot. The biodiversity in the Pamir is high thanks to the intersection of several climates among the various mountain ranges
The image of Pamir in the philosophy of Fedorov
No full textThis article describes the meaning of Pamir mountains in the philosophy of N.F. Fedorov: Pamir as the place of humanity origin, Pamir as Adam’s grave, Pamir as Eden, Pamir and Meru, Pamir and Golgotha, Pamir and Kremlin, Pamir and Constantinople, Pamir in the context of Iran and Turan, rivalry for Pamir with England, Pamir and India/Ophir.Pассматривается значение образа Памира в актуальных для философии Фёдорова контекстах: Памир как прародина человечества, Памир как могила Адама, Памир как Эдем, Памир и Меру, Памир и Голгофа, Памир и Кремль, Памир и Константинополь, Памир а Туран и Иран, соперничество с Англией на Памире, Памир и Индия/Офир
Pamir languages: meaning and features
Full text linkВ данной статье рассматривается признание и значение памирских языков и их подгрупп. Изучение памирских языков важно для понимания истории и культуры этого региона, а также для сохранения и изучения уникальных языковых особенностей, которые могут быть утрачены из-за современных социокультурных изменений. Статья разделена на три части: первая часть объясняет, почему памирские языки были названы таким образом, и что носители этого языка многоязычны. Во второй части представлены некоторые памирские языки с указанием количества носителей. В третьей части показано на карте распределение памирских языков в Афганистане и Таджикистане.The article deals with the recognition and significance of the Pamir languages and subgroups of these languages; the study of the Pamir languages is important for understanding the history and culture of this region, as well as for preserving and studying unique linguistic features that may be lost as a result of modern sociocultural changes. The article is divided into three parts: the first part explains why the Pamir languages have got those names and the speakers of the languages are multilingual. The second part presents some Pamir languages, showing the number of speakers of these languages. The third part shows on a map the location of the Pamir languages in Afghanistan and Tajikistan
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