The Himalayan dilemma
Subtitle: reconciling development and conservation
By: Jack D. Ives and Bruno Messerli
Contributors: Messerli, Bruno
Publisher: United Nations University; Routledge
Published: 1989
Place of publication: [Tokyo, Japan]; London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780203169193
Subjects: Environnement; Green Business; Natural Resources; NATURE; Environmental Economics; Environmental policy; Politique gouvernementale; E cologie humaine; Human ecology; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 1. The theory of Himalayan environmental degradation : what is the nature of the perceived crisis?; title: 2. The Himalayan region : a geographical overview; title: 3. When did deforestation occur? : a historical perspective on Himalayan forest-cover changes; title: 4. Perceived pressures on the Himalayan forests and their role as environmental shield; title: 5. Mountain slope instability : natural processes or human intervention?; title: 6. The Himalayan-lowland interactive system : do land-use changes in the mountains affect the plains?; title: 7. The human dimension : what are the facts?; title: 8. Two approaches to the population pressure/land productivity decline problem in the Himalaya; title: 9. Crisis, pseudo-crisis, or supercrisis?; title: 10. Research strategy for the Himalayan region.