ABSTRACT

This book breaks the ground in Geographical texts by transcending a strictly regional or topical focus.  It presents the opportunities and constraints that mountains and their resources offer to local and global populations; the impacts of environmental and economic change, development and globalisation on mountain environments. Part of the Ecogeography series edited by Richard Hugget

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part 1|69 pages

Evolution of mountain landscapes

chapter 1|23 pages

The making and shaping of mountains

chapter 2|18 pages

Mountain climate and climate change

chapter 3|25 pages

Mountain geoecology

part 2|58 pages

Mountain people and cultures

chapter 4|20 pages

Mountain culture

part 3|75 pages

Mountain resources and resource use

chapter 7|24 pages

Resources: land

chapter 8|22 pages

Water resources of mountain regions

part 4|78 pages

Managing mountains: development conservation and degradation

chapter 10|22 pages

Catastrophe or capacity?

chapter 11|23 pages

Conservation and biodiversity

chapter 12|18 pages

Mountain tourism

chapter |11 pages

Mountains: blessed or blighted futures?