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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ives, Jack D.,

Titel

Sustainable mountain development : getting the facts right

Auflage

2nd ed

Ort / Verlag

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Intro -- About the Author -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Global Mountain Awareness -- My Fascination with Mountains -- CHAPTER 2 An International Mountain Involvement: The Beginnings -- UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Mountain Project (MAB-6) -- Lillehammer and Formulation of an International Mountain Programme -- Vienna 1973 and MAB-6 Planning Conferences -- La Paz 1974 and an Issue of Citizenship -- Andean Mountain Issues -- CHAPTER 3 Mountain Strategy in Munich, 1974: On Track to the Himalaya -- Manoeuvres in a Munich Beer Garden -- Kathmandu 1975: An International Centre for Mountain Development -- Building Awareness of Mountain Cultures and Relationships -- CHAPTER 4 Darjeeling: Personal Awakening to High Mountains and Refugees -- First Views of the Himalaya -- Return to Darjeeling in 1975: The Tibetan Refugee Connection -- Tibetan Refugees and Loreto College -- CHAPTER 5 Moscow and the Caucasus: The IGU in the Cold War -- Journey to the Soviet Union -- Special Moscow Treatment for a Canadian Delegate -- Aftermath in the Swiss Alps -- CHAPTER 6 United Nations University: Agency with a Mountain Mission -- UNU's Highland-Lowland Interactive Systems Project -- A New Type of UN Institution -- My First UNU Mission: Chiang Mai and Opium Poppy Cultivation, 1978 -- Return to Chiang Mai: Next Steps towards a UNU Project -- A Surprise Royal Invitation to Dinner -- Evolving Issues and Critical Problems -- CHAPTER 7 Himalayan Reconnaissance 1978: Deforestation, Landslides, and Farmers -- Questioning the Causes of Deforestation in the Nepal Himalaya -- The Gateway to Everest -- Challenging Conventional Wisdom -- A Very Human Cross-Cultural Diversion -- From Kathmandu to Darjeeling, 1979 A Journey to Remember -- A Close Encounter and a Time for Quick Thinking -- Early Thoughts on a Predicted Himalayan Disaster.
• CHAPTER 8 The China Connection: Privileged Entry to a Closed Country -- Journey to Lhasa, the 'Forbidden City', and Beyond -- First International Mountain Conference in China: Beijing and Lhasa -- By Road to Kathmandu -- CHAPTER 9 Beyond Lhasa: Opening China to Collaborative Mountain Research -- Tian Shan Reconnaissance, 1981: Mountain Hazards and Environmental Impacts -- The Hengduan Shan, 1982: Western Sichuan -- Reconnaissance to Lijiang and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains -- Reflections on the China Connection -- CHAPTER 10 Breakthrough: Environmental Degradation Theory Overturned -- Nepal's Middle Mountains: Getting to Grips with the Real Problems -- Mountain Hazards Mapping amongst the World's Highest Mountains -- First Major Test of Khumbu Environmental Alarms -- Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in the Khumbu and Wider Implications -- CHAPTER 11 China Revisited 1985: Yunnan and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains -- Yulong Xueshan: The Jade Dragon Snow Mountains -- Field Investigations in the Lijiang Area -- Summing Up, 1985 -- CHAPTER 12 The Mohonk Process: Mobilization of the Mountain Advocates -- The Mohonk Mountain Conferences -- Maurice Strong and Proposal for a Canadian Mountain Institute -- Mohonk II: Refinement of a Political Mountain Agenda -- International Challenge to Himalayan Mountain Myths -- CHAPTER 13 Mountain Road to Rio: The UN Earth Summit 1992 -- Success in Rio -- Rio-Plus-Five: UN Headquarters Review, 1997 -- Declaration of 2002 as the International Year of Mountains -- CHAPTER 14 Return to China 1991-1996: Mountain People of Yunnan and Mass Tourism -- Lijiang and the Yulong Xueshan, 1993, 1994, 1995 -- Mystery of the Love-Suicide Meadow -- Lijiang as a World-Class Tourist Destination -- Lijiang and Northwestern Yunnan Development after 1996 -- CHAPTER 15 Roof of the World: The Pamir:, 1999 "A Catastrophe of Biblical Proportions".
• Lake Sarez, the Dam, and the Mission -- "If Allah Wills the Flood, I Will Be Ready," or What the Partridge Says -- Hazards of Mountain and Military Obstacles -- New Day, New Horizon, New Kind of Problem -- CHAPTER 16 Threatened Disasters in the Pamir and Himalaya -- Lake Sarez: Pamir Aftermath -- Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Revisited -- Himalayan Hazards and Climate Change -- Aftermath on Imja Lake -- CHAPTER 17 The Evolution of the Mountain Cause -- Epilogue -- Mountains on the Global Stage -- Mountains at Rio+20 -- Mountains and the Sustainable Development Goals -- Keeping Mountains on the Agenda -- Mountain Organisations -- Key Issues for Sustainable Mountain Development -- APPENDIX I List of Acronyms -- APPENDIX II Mohonk Mountain Conference Resolution -- RESOLUTION 1 -- RESOLUTION 2 -- RESOLUTION 3 -- RESOLUTION 4 -- RESOLUTION 5 -- CONCLUSION 1 -- CONCLUSION 2 -- References -- Endnotes -- Index.
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