Jack W Ives

The Himalayan Dilemma: Reconciling Development and Conservation (Published in Association with The United Nations University)

`This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of environmental studies and international development ... It is indeed, a book app...

The Land Beyond: A Memoir

Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-heart...

Sustainable Mountain Development: Getting the Facts Right

The author takes us on an epic journey in search of recognition of the importance of our mountain regions and their indigenous peoples for preservation of an environmentally viable world. The book embraces far flung field research, challenges to major paradigms of the day, team work, and long-term p...

Mountains

Geoecology of the Colorado Front Range: A Study of Alpine and Subalpine Environments

Les Montagnes Dans Le Monde: Une Priorite Pour Un Developpement Durable

Conservation and Development in Northern Thailand: Proceedings of a Programmatic Workshop on Agro-Forestry and Highland-Lowland Interactive Systems, Held at Chiang Mai, Thailand, 13-17 November 1978