Sustainable Mountain Development

Getting the facts right

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvJack D. Ives

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This second edition of “Sustainable Mountain Development” is a history of the development of mountain environmental awareness from its origins during the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1973.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-07-30
Mått210 x 260 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor301
Upplaga2
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030960315

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Jack Ives received his B.A honours first class, Geography, U of Nottingham, 1953; Ph D. McGill U., Geography (geomorphology) 1956; (married Pauline Angela H. Cordingley, 11 September 1954 and emigrated to Canada [Montreal] same month). Director, McGill Subarctic Research Lab., Schefferville, and Assist. Prof., Dept of Geography, McGill U., 1957-1960; Assist. Director and Director, Geographical Branch, Energy, Mines and Resources, Canada, 1960-67. Director, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, U of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, 1967-1979 and Full Professor, Geography, 1967-1989. Professor of Mountain Geoecology (Chair of Dept of Geography [1989- 1993] and Prof. Division of Environmental Studies, U of Calif., Davis, [1993-1997]). Chair, International Working Group, UNESCO MAB Programme, Project 6 – 1973-1975. Research Coordinator, United Nations University – Project on Mountain Ecology and Sustainable Development, 1978-2000 (involved fieldwork in Himalaya, N. Thailand, Tibet, Tajikistan, Ecuadorian Andes. Chair, Intntl. Geogr. Union, Commission on Mountain Geoecology, 1972-1980 and 1988-1996); present position – Senior Advisor on Mountain Ecology and Sustainable Development. Official delegate to Rio de Janeiro 1992 Earth Summit (UNCED).

Chapter1. Global Mountain Awareness.- Chapter2. An International Mountain Involvement: The Beginnings.- Chapter3. Mountain Strategy in Munich, 1974: On Track to the Himalaya.- Chapter4. Darjeeling: Personal Awakening to High Mountains and Refugees.- Chapter5. Moscow and the Caucasus: The IGU in the Cold War.- Chapter6. United Nations University: Agency with a Mountain Mission.- Chapter7. Himalayan Reconnaissance 1978: Deforestation, Landslides, and Farmers.- Chapter8. The China Connection: Privileged Entry to a Closed Country.- Chapter9. Beyond Lhasa: Opening China to Collaborative Mountain Research.- Chapter10. Breakthrough: Environmental Degradation Theory Overturned.- Chapter11. China Revisited 1985: Yunnan and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains.- Chapter12. The Mohonk Process: Mobilization of the Mountain Advocates.- Chapter13. Mountain Road to Rio: The UN Earth Summit 1992.- Chapter14. Return to China 1991–1996: Mountain People of Yunnan and Mass Tourism.- Chapter15. Roof of the World: The Pamir, 1999: “A Catastrophe of Biblical Proportions”.- Chapter16. Threatened Disasters in the Pamir and Himalaya.- Chapter17. The Evolution of the Mountain Cause.