Himalaya Ganga: Contending with Complexity
Water Nepal Vol 4 No.1,September 1994
Ajay Dixit, Dipak Gyawali, editors Nepal Water Conservation Foundation Kathmandu,
Till about two centuries ago, the natural
The Thakalis, Bon dKar and Lamaist Monasteries along the Kali Gandaki
Ratan Kumar Rai
Book Faith India,
Delhi
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
In their quest to be regarded as factual or even definitive, guide books often read as flat as roadmaps; they get you to and around the destination, but provide no
While this book will prove 'a welcome addition to some libraries because of the volume of information it contains, editors Verghese and Iyer deliver much less than what they
It is not very often that someone who has contributed to the making of his country's history also finds the time to record for posterity his own interpretation
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
