My Kind of Kathmandu
An Artist's Impression of the Emerald Valley
Desmond Doig
Indus, 1994
Tibet Handbook
Victor Chan
Moon Publications Inc.,1994
Chico, California
When the travel bug bites, first buy a guide book, or buy them all. A review of travel tomes.
The preface to Donald Maclntyre's Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild
Social vulnerability, rather than ecological vulnerability, has been the primary driver of environmental change in the Himalaya.
A False Harmonising of Himalayan Experience
Saving the Himalaya
by Derek Denniston
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.
The partyless Panchayat system, established by King Mahendra after he toppled parliamentary democracy in I960, acquired legitimacy through the plebiscite of 1980. But such legitimacy could not be translated into
"Startling Discoveries" Magazine article by Raj Chengappa
This investigative special by a well-known reporter of the Indian environment presents the different geological phenomena and processes active in the
Self-Reliance in Small Communities examines the choice of technologies with which to help villages achieve self-reliance. The author argues for a revival of indigenous technology through a community-nurtured approach. He
There is much more to a tree than wood, fruit and leaves. An Indian scientist estimates the worth of environmental services rendered by a tree over a 50 year lifespan
Were Tibet a developing country rather than a sullen Autonomous Region (U-Tsang and a truncated Kham), the prevailing mantras in seminars and gostis in Lhasa in 1992 would all be
The book Ethnicity, State and Development by Tanka Subba, an anthropologist at the North Eastern Hill University in Shillong, is about political conflict in an Indian hill territory that has
The Third Citizens' Report on the State of India's Environment, which looks into the causes and effect of the annual floods on the lower plains of the
