HIMALAYAN PERCEPTIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND THE WELL-BEING OF MOUNTAIN
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HIMALAYAN PERCEPTIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND THE WELL-BEING OF MOUNTAIN
Abstract
Preview of Himalayan perceptions: Environmental Change and the Well-Being of Mountain PeoplesHimalayan Perspectives returns to Ives’ tremendously popular development paradigm, known as the ‘Theory of Himalayan Degradation’.
According to this alluring narrative, poverty and overpopulation in the Himalayas were causing highland forest destruction, erosion, and downstream flooding. Ives and Messerli exposed this “Theory” as a dangerous mix of assumptions and misrepresentations in the ‘Himalayan Dilemma’.
While most experts in the subject quickly acknowledged Ives and Messerli’s criticisms, the Theory has persisted as the driving myth of development planners and many government organisations.
In his latest book, Ives returns to drive a stake into the heart of this revenant. His book not only examines the research that has confirmed the arguments of the ‘Himalayan Dilemma’ over the last 15 years, but it also looks closely at all of the destructive factors that were overlooked by the conveniently simplistic ‘Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation‘: government mismanagement, oppression of mountain minorities, armed conflict, and inappropriate tourism development.
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