SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT getting the facts right.

✍ Scribed by JACK IVES

• Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

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