The Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation (UNU, 1989, 295 pages)

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The theory of Himalayan environmental degradation: what is the nature of the perceived crisis?

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The theory

Linkages of the theory and their implications

2. The Himalayan region: a geographical overview

Introduction

The physical basis

People and population

Breakdown into regions

3. When did deforestation occur? A historical perspective on Himalayan forest-cover changes

Introduction

Widely held perceptions about the mountain forests of the Himalayan region

4. Perceived pressures on the Himalayan forests and their role as environmental shield

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How much fuelwood is consumed and how much biomass do the forests produce?

Perceptions of the forests

Fuelwood collection and the villagers' use of animal dung

What are the physical effects of deforestation?

5. Mountain slope instability: natural processes or human intervention?

Introduction

The nature of mountain geomorphology: what is known about slope process in densely populated mountain terrain?

Estimation of denudation rates in the Himalaya

Geomorphic processes and human interventions: summing up

6. The Himalayan-lowland interactive system: do land-use changes in the mountains affect the plains?

Introduction

Regional assessment of watershed degradation

Downstream effects of watershed degradation

7. The human dimension: what are the facts?

Introduction

Poverty in the Himalaya

Women and young people

Conclusions

8. Two approaches to the population pressure/land productivity decline problem in the Himalaya

Introduction

Livestock and land degradation in the Kumaun Himalayan foothills

Population growth and land-use planning in Nepal

Discussion and conclusions

9. Crisis, pseudo-crisis' or supercrisis?

Introduction

What is the nature and extent of crisis in Nepal?

Some crisis indicators from the wider region

Conclusions

10. Research strategy for the Himalayan region

Introduction

Uncertainty revisited: what are the critical gaps in knowledge?

A conventional approach for the natural scientist

Implementation failure caused by institutional problems

Himalayan development: development for whom?

Postscript

References