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      Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands
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      Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands book

      ByMartin Beniston
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2000
      eBook Published 20 April 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315824826
      Pages 188
      eBook ISBN 9781315824826
      Subjects Environment and Sustainability
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      Beniston, M. (2000). Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315824826

      ABSTRACT

      Mountain environments are often perceived to be austere, isolated, and inhospitable. In fact, these areas are of immense value to mankind, providing direct life support to close to 10 percent of the world's population and sustaining a wide variety of species - many of which are endemic to this environment.



      'Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands' provides detailed account of the fragile and marginal physical and socio-economic systems which make up the world's mountain regions. Discussing the direct and indirect impacts of human interference on environmental ecosystems, it then turns to the social and economic consequences of such environmental change - both upon the mountain environment itself and upon the populations who depend on mountain resources for their economic sustenance.



      This book includes a review of possible implications for adaption and mitigation strategies in a global context. Working within a broad temporal scale, it draws upon paleoenvironmental records to document past changes which have occured in the absence of major anthropogenic influences, as well as utilising modelling as a means to assessing future environmental change.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Mountains and uplands: an introduction

      Chapter summary

      chapter |4 pages

      Box 1.1 Communication routes across the Alps

      chapter 2|5 pages

      Characterization of mountain environments

      Chapter summary Climate

      chapter |12 pages

      Box 2.1 Fo¨hn-type winds

      chapter |3 pages

      Box 2.2 Ecoclimatic zones in East African mountains

      chapter |4 pages

      Box 2.3 Technological upheavals and consequences for traditional lifestyles

      chapter 3|7 pages

      Past environmental change in mountains and uplands

      Chapter summary

      chapter |3 pages

      Box 3.1 Evidence for glacier retreat in the Alps during the Holocene

      chapter 3|1 pages

      5.2 Changes in biospheric systems

      chapter |8 pages

      Box 3.2 Dendrochronological studies of fluctuations in tree growth

      chapter 4|11 pages

      Modelling approaches to assess environmental change

      Chapter summary

      chapter |9 pages

      Box 4.1 Examples of ecological models

      Micro-scale models

      chapter 5|17 pages

      Possible future changes in mountain environments

      Chapter summary

      chapter |4 pages

      Box 5.1 Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenarios

      chapter 6|6 pages

      Impacts of environmental change on natural systems

      Chapter summary

      chapter |11 pages

      Plan Plan Plan Pl Palnan Plan Plan Plan P lan Plan Plan Plan

      chapter 7|5 pages

      Socio-economic impacts of environmental change in mountain regions

      Chapter summary

      chapter |6 pages

      Box 7.1 Climatic change in Chimborazo Province, Ecuador

      chapter |2 pages

      Box 7.2 Threats from malaria and other diseases in tropical mountain

      chapter |6 pages

      Box 7.3 The importance of tourism in Nepal

      chapter 8|2 pages

      Conclusions: adaptation strategies and policy

      Chapter summary

      chapter |2 pages

      Box 8.1 Research recommendations from Agenda 21, Chapter 13:

      chapter |7 pages

      Adaptation strategies

      chapter |1 pages

      End note

      chapter |15 pages

      References

      chapter |1 pages

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