Jack D. Ives

Boulder, Colorado From 1967 to 1979 Ives served as director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, and professor of geography from 1967 to 1989.

While at Boulder, Ives founded and edited two peer-reviewed quarterly journals. Arctic and Alpine Research first appeared in 1969.

Davis, California Beginning in 1989 Ives served as full professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Davis. Their vision of a world awakened to the importance and fragility of mountains was shaped in part by the success of ocean advocate Jacques Cousteau (who was also invited to the Earth Summit), and by the UNU's semi-autonomous World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER). and a 44-page summary booklet, An Appeal for the Mountains. Ives with Bruno Messerli and colleges organized the inclusion of "Chapter 13 — Managing Fragile Ecosystems — Sustainable Mountain Development" in its final publication, Agenda 21.

The message of Chapter 13 has echoed for the ensuing three decades. A new hardcover volume was produced, Mountains of the World: A Global Priority ( Messerli and Ives, ed. 1997). It was produced as the centerpiece of the review of Chapter 13 in 1997 at the Rio-Plus-Five at United Nations headquarters in New York City. Among the recommendations for mountain research and stewardship in the volume is Ives' proposal for the "creation of a montology — a science that is sensitive to mountain policy" — an "interdisciplinary, intercontinental, intersectoral" field (p. 464) responsive to the complexities of the challenges and opportunities inherent in mountains. Meanwhile, dozens of new governmental offices for mountain stewardship and non-governmental agencies, all focusing on the "people mountain interface" had been established around the world. On 11 December 2001, Ives, representing Dr. Hans J. A. van Ginkel, Rector of United Nations University, delivered a keynote address to the United Nations General Assembly. The United Nations General Assembly declared 2002 International Year of the Mountain, in observance of the 10-year anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, and December 11 itself was designated the annual International Mountain Day going forward.

Later life and death After retiring from UC Davis, Ives returned to Ottawa, Canada, where he was appointed honorary research professor of geography and environmental studies by Carleton University. In his last two decades, Ives authored five monographs and numerous shorter works.

Ives died in Ottawa, Canada on September 15, 2024, at the age of 92.

Major works The following is a list of books either authored or edited by Jack D. Ives. (with Roger Barry) (with Bruno Messerli) ; also published hardcover in German, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese 2017 PubWest Book Design Silver Award Winner for Historical or Biographical Book

Honors and awards Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976 Mel Marcus Distinguished Career Award, Geomorphology Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), 2000 Distinguished Career Award, Mountain Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), 2000 Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 2006 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon, Iceland, 2007 A Festschrift was published in his honor in 2016: Mainali, Kumar; Sicroff, Seth (eds.). Jack D. Ives, Montologist: Festschrift for a Mountain Advocate. Himalayan Association for the Advancement of Science. pp. 94–97. .