Resource Use and Environmental Degradation in the Himalayas: The Kali Watershed
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8187129050
Length
xxxi+276p., Figs.; Maps.
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The Himalayas are a veritable store house of natural resources. Most, if not all, of the resources like water, energy, soil, forests are replinished by nature. Yet today, impoverished of its resources, the Himalayas are virtually bankrupt. Tampering with the thresholds of nature, humans have so upset the renewability of the resources that the Himalayas have been taken over by environmental ruin. This book states that it is the misuse of resources which has led to ...
