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This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with . . . major environmental issues. - Geography . . . an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of development studies and international development . . . a beautifully produced book, a real tribute to the art of the bookmaker. The clean, easy to read text is complemented by excellent photographs and figures. It is indeed a book appropriate to the urgent and critical issues which it addresses. - Journal of Environmental Management This authoritative and highly readable text explores the environmental and socio-economic situation in the Himalayan area, and examines the extent of the supercrisis believed to be threatening to engulf the region and its 400 million people. . . . an important text for policy makers and aid professionals as well as students of environmental studies and international development. - Biology Digest This book is well written and enjoyable to read....will be interesting reading for scholars, resource managers, foreign aid advisers, policymakers, and all those interested in the mountain environment in general and the Himalayas in particular. -Mohan N. Shrestha, Journal of Developing Areas

This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with . . . major environmental issues. <br>- Geography <br>. . . an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of development studies and international development . . . a beautifully produced book, a real tribute to the art of the bookmaker. The clean, easy to read text is complemented by excellent photographs and figures. It is indeed a book appropriate to the urgent and critical issues which it addresses. <br>- Journal of Environmental Management <br> This authoritative and highly readable text explores the environmental and socio-economic situation in the Himalayan area, and examines the extent of the supercrisis believed to be threatening to engulf the region and its 400 million people. . . . an important text for policy makers and aid professionals as well as students of environmental studies and international development. <br>- Biology Digest <br> This book is well written and enjoyable to read....will be interesting reading for scholars, resource managers, foreign aid advisers, policymakers, and all those interested in the mountain environment in general and the Himalayas in particular. <br>-Mohan N. Shrestha, Journal of Developing Areas <br>

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Jack D. Ives, Bruno Messerli

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