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Himalayan Perceptions
Environmental Change and the Well-Being of Mountain Peoples
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment
In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This...
Published August 4th 2004 by Routledge
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The Himalayan Dilemma
Reconciling Development and Conservation
`This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of environmental studies and international development ... It is indeed, a book...
Published March 1st 1989 by Routledge