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A resource book covering the finest walks, treks and climbs in the High Pyrenees for 400km between France and Spain, from the Cirque de Lescun, on the edge of the Basque country in the west, to the Carlit massif and the Cerdagne to the east of Andorra. The book is divided into five regional chapters: the Western Valleys; Cirques and Canyons; the Central Pyrenees; Enchanted Mountains; and Andorra and the Eastern High Pyrenees. Intended as a resource book for those planning a range of mountain activities in the Pyrenees, the guide describes each area valley by valley, and provides information on access and accommodation, as well as recommended maps and guidebooks. Unlike a conventional walking...
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) requirements are quasi-universal. Praised as the core of the international legal response to ensure environmental protection, this procedure is an information tool for better public decision-making, which can contribute to empowering individuals and civic groups. Based on the historical background of the relevant norms and on case studies, Interstitial Law-Making in International Law: A Study of Environmental Impact Assessments verifies whether the role of procedure in secreting substantive law may be fulfilled in the distinctive legal system of public international law, while appraising how EIA requirements have been conceived and implemented as regards encouraging all international actors to behave in an environmentally conscious way, in a world of heterogeneous political regimes. This book is based on the author’s award winning doctoral dissertation which received the Yale Law School’s Ambrose Gherini Prize for best paper in the field of international law (2018).
The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature...
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Patrice de Bellefon est né le 26 août 1938 à Toulouse. Tout jeune il découvre la montagne dans les Pyrénées ariégeoises et réussit sa première ascension difficile, en hiver, à l'âge de 17 ans. Il participe à de nombreuses premières et à de grandes ascensions hivernales. Guide de haute montagne en 1961, il aborde avec une conception originale l'exercice de cette profession dans les Pyrénées. En près de 20 ans il a parcouru quantité d'itinéraires, surtout dans les Pyrénées mais aussi dans les Alpes du Nord, l'Oisans, le Vercors, les Alpes du Sud. Hors de ses montagnes d'élection il a également mis sur pied plusieurs expéditions qui l'ont conduit sur de nombreux sommets ...
Etudie la montagne sous différents aspects (sociologiques, écologiques, économiques, politiques, les acteurs de ce milieu...) pour mieux préparer sa défense et assurer sa sauvegarde.
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.