2014 Book reviews 223 petenzen. Die verstärkte Kooperation der Klein- und develop the international alpine research in the past Mittelstädte und mehr bürgerschaftliches Engagement half-century extend from the London Geography Con- sind zentrale Aspekte, die auch bei der Städtebauförde- gress to the United Nations Conference on the Human rung beachtet werden sollten. Environment in Stockholm in 1972, in which the Man Die fachlich und handwerklich mit gewohnt höchs- and Biosphere Programme was created, to follow-up confer- ter Kompetenz des BBSR durchgeführte Untersuchung ences in Lillehammer, Norway, and farther to the Mos- enthält zwar nicht durchweg völlig neue Erkenntnisse. cow Geography Congress, which led Jack Ives to the Ihr Verdienst ist es jedoch, die Probleme und Chancen Caucasus in 1976, and on to research in Nepal as well as der Klein- und Mittelstädte in der Breite sehr differen- several stays in China. Two conferences at the Mohonk ziert, plastisch und solide herausgearbeitet und damit Mountain House (New Paltz, NY/USA) set the process einen wichtigen Kontrapunkt zur Konzentration der in motion that resulted in the Mountain Agenda, an ac- raumwissenschaftlichen Debatte auf die Metropolregi- tion program aimed at a sustainable use of the alpine onen gesetzt zu haben. Sie liefert damit eine Fülle von environment. It was unanimously accepted by the world Anregungen für die vertiefende Forschung in Klein- conference in 1992. Ten years later, the United Nations und Mittelstädten und sollte auch der explizit oder im- declared 2002 the International Year of Mountains. plizit raumbezogenen Politik wertvolle Hinweise für die The plea for a careful consideration of human-environ- Zukunft geben. ment-interaction in mountains is still valid. Jack Ives experienced and helped to shape this process. Thus, his Christian Diller personal biography is closely intertwined with a long pe- riod of research history in his discipline. Ives’ impact on alpine geography would not be sufficiently described without also mentioning the magazine Mountain Research Ives, Jack D.: Sustainable Mountain Development. and Development that he and his wife Pauline published Getting the Facts Right. XV and 293 pp. and 138 figs. over decades. The book provides a well-facetted descrip- Himalayan Association for the Advancement of Science. tion of a rich research and life history. On the one hand, Lalitpur, Nepal it objectively and very vividly describes the development of an extensive research network, which made high Jack D. Ives, geomorphologist and high mountain mountain research into a vivid subdiscipline through researcher, has written a book that equally presents a publications and conferences. On the other hand, it re- review of the last fifty years of international alpine re- ports on many personal encounters and conversations search and a personal autobiography. The author, who and thus reveals the person behind the researcher who emigrated from England to Canada in 1954 and via time and again coped with many different cultural con- Boulder (Colorado) and Davis (California), settled in texts. The entire text is written engagingly and is a lively Ottawa, is one of the main figures in geography. He read. The author lets his own pictures speak, which re- has spoken at and chaired numerous international con- flects the character of the autobiography: The splendid ferences and was an official delegate to the 1992 Earth photos that Jack Ives has taken with his Hasselblad are Summit (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. He is well-known impressive documents of the fascinating alpine word. and renowned far beyond the realm of geography and High mountain researchers and other interested readers has greatly increased public awareness for sustainable will embrace this book. development in mountainous regions. Jack Ives had particularly close ties to geography in Germany: Es- Jörg Stadelbauer pecially formative was his meeting two German geog- raphers, Carl Troll (Bonn) at the International Ge- ography Conference in London in 1964 and Walther Manshard (Gießen and Freiburg). Walther Manshard Søreide, Tina and Williams, Aled (eds.): Corruption, supported Jack Ives during his work at UNESCO and as Grabbing and Development. Real World Challenges. Vice-Rector of the United Nations University and, con- XIV and 216 pp., 4 figs. and 8 tables. Edward Elgar, sequently, this book is dedicated to him. With Bruno Cheltenham, 2014, £ 75.- Messerli (Bern) Jack Ives found a congenial colleague and a close friend, with whom he organised numerous This is a brave publication from Norway. I am not conferences and wrote many publications. Moreover, aware of a comparable, eclectic, investigative, in-depth they alternately headed the IGU Commission on Moun- book on this topic. Even the sub-title “Real World tain Geoecology several times. The stepping stones to Challenges” is more than promising. In the field of de-