Mountain societies in transition

CONTENTS: Jürgen Clemens: Rural Development in Northern Pakistan – Impacts of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Eckart Ehlers: Sustainability – Indigenous Knowlegde Systems and Traditional Land Uses. The Northern Areas of Pakistan as an Example Fazlur-Rahman: Community Organizations and Management of Natural Resources in the Northern Areas of Pakistan – A Study of Astor Valley Reinhard Fischer: Village – Valley – Nation. Integrating Mountain Communities into a Nationstate Hiltrud Herbers: Undernutrition and Heavy Workload in Northern Pakistan – Consequences for Production and Reproduction Arnd Holdschlag: Chitral – A Society between Irrigation, Isolation, and Migration – Some Observations from Lower Chitral and Tehsil Thorko Hermann Kreutzmann: Geolinguistic Variegation in the Eastern Hindukush and Karakoram Claudia Polzer / Matthias Schmidt: The Transformation of Political Structure in Shigar Valley / Baltistan Matthias Schmidt: The Utilization of Mountain Forests in the Bagrot Valley Georg Stöber: Structural Change and Domestic Agriculture in Yasin Andreas Dittmann / Fazlur-Rahman / Arnd Holdschlag: Chitral – Urban Development and Traditional Bazaar Structures