SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT getting the facts right.

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