Institutional frameworks for the study of mountain environments and development

✍ Scribed by Jack D. Ives

• Book ID: 104643435
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 663 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0343-2521
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00150643

✦ Synopsis

During the two decades since the 1972 Stockholm Conference the concern for mountain environments coalesced under an institutional framework involving several organizations and many scholars and scientists. The evolution of the progress of these interested individuals, institutions, and their scholarly journal is outlined with benchmarks noted. An appraisal of the past two decades is given here in recognition of the UNCED-92 conference, the "Earth Summit.