Sustainable mountain development : getting the facts right / Jack D. Ives.

Author
Ives, Jack D. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First ediiton.
Published/​Created
Kathmandu : Himalayan Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013.
Description
xv, 293 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-278) and index
    Contents
    • Global mountain awareness
    • An international mountain involvement : the beginnings
    • Mountain strategy in Munich, 1974 : on track to the Himalaya
    • Darjeeling : personal awakening to high mountains and refugees
    • Moscow and the Caucasus : the IGU in the Cold War
    • United Nations University : agency with a mountain mission
    • Himalayan reconnaissance 1978 : deforestation, landslides, and farmers
    • The China connection : privileged entry to a closed country
    • Beyond Lhasa : opening China to collaborative mountain research
    • Breakthrough : environmental degradation theory overturned
    • China revisited 1985 : Yunnan and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains
    • The Mohonk process : mobilization of the mountain advocates
    • Mountain road to Rio : the UN Earth Summit 1992
    • Return to China 1991-1996 : mountain people of Yunna and mass tourism
    • Roof of the world : the Parmir, 1999 : "a catastrophe of biblical proportions"
    • Threatened disasters in the Pamir and Himalaya
    • The evolution of the mountain cause.
    ISBN
    • 9789937261951
    • 9937261953
    LCCN
    2013410820
    OCLC
    898755593
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