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Zurick and Karan's book on the Himalaya is easily the best book in recent years focussing on the condition of the Himalayan env... Read More
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The thematic focus is on what is called the theory of himalayan degradation as it was constructed by the alarmists in the 1970s into the 1980s including the german ecologist h-c reiger, earth scientists bruno messerli and jack ives, and journalists like erik eckolm, a sometime science editor of the ny times.
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Zurick and karan, both human geographers who have have been studying the himalaya for a total of sixty years, find in their analysis that the himalayan environmental situation is highly variable, problems exist, but the basic scenario that overpopulation causes cultivated land expansion and deforestation of steep lands, thereby increasing erosion, and silt laden runoff deposited downstream, is overly simplistic.
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Through a series of seven intensive regional studies, in himachal pradesh, uttarakhand, nepal, sikkim, and bhutan the authors demonstrate the contemporary environmental status.