Action Plan for Himalaya
Himavikas Occasional Publication # 2
Govinda Ballav Pant Institute for
Himalayan Environment and Development,
1992; Kosi, Almora
The book proposes a technocrat's model for eco-development. It does not touch base with the villager
Even the bada sahebs of development community would acknowledge that development of mountain areas proceeds along a somewhat different course than that of the plains. What these differences are precisely is a matter on which there is less agreement. After plethora of reports around the "Rio process", including the State of the World´s Mountains document and different country and subject-wise reports, those differences persist.
Part of this is because of differing perceptions of development itself: is development "human development" as defined by UNDP, is it weighed in terms of productivity and income, or is it calculated by substitution or supplementation of mountain subsistence by the market? Do these differences imply different goals or are they different ways of measuring the same thing?