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Himalayan Perceptions: Environmental Change and the Well-Being of Mountain Peoples (Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment)

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In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constantly being promoted by the news media.
Himalayan Perceptions identifies the confusion of misunderstanding, vested interests, changing perceptions, and institutional unwillingness to base development policy on sound scientific knowledge. It analyzes the large amount of new research published since 1989 and totally refutes the entire construct. It examines recent social and economic developments in the region and identifies warfare, guerrilla activities, and widespread oppression of poor ethnic minorities as the primary cause for the instability that pervades the entire region. It is argued that the development controversy is further confounded by exaggerated reporting, even falsification, by news media, environmental publications, and agency reports alike.

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0415317983
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August 5, 2004
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Himalayan Delusions

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Jack Ives is by far the foremost authority on mountains in general, and on the Himalayas in particular. He was the major force behind Chapter 13 ("Sustainable Mountain Development") of Agenda 21, the declaration of the 1992 UNCED (aka the Rio Summit). On the occasion of the International Year of Mountains (2002), Ives was the UN's chief spokesperson. Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation (1989), which Ives co-authored with Bruno Messerli, is a classic, cited in virtually every serious publication on the Himalayas. Ives' honors include two lifetime achievement awards from the American Association of Geographers, the King Albert I Medal, and the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (bestowed by HM Queen Elizabeth).

Himalayan Perceptions is an update of Himalayan Dilemma. This is not a romantic travelogue or a generalist's introduction -- it is an incisive and often withering account of the delusions and deceptions that have hobbled development efforts in the most dramatic and dynamic region of the world. It should be required reading for all students of the Himalayas, not to mention development planners.

Sadly, this book has been priced out of the reach of those who most need it. The good news is that a second edition, enhanced with color photographs and superior layout and paper, is available from Himalayan Journal of Sciences ([...]) at less than one-fifth the price of the original.

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