Editors:
- A comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in this important field of scientific research
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 23)
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Table of contents (63 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The International Year of Mountains Challenge and Opportunity for Mountain Research
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Paleoenvironmental changes
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Front Matter
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Cryospheric changes
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Front Matter
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About this book
Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the humanity. Global environmental change threatens the integrity of these systems and their ability to provide the goods and services upon which humanity has come to depend. This book gives an overview of the state of research in fields pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain regions. More than 60 contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies are compiled in this volume, each with an outlook on future research directions.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The challenge of global climate change is engaging scientists across a wide range of disciplines and has become an important issue for politicians and environmental agencies around the world. … This book is an essential collection of papers on important mountain-directed themes. … The editors and contributors are to be congratulated on the production of this timely book which will be a key text in tackling the challenges posed by climate change." (Wishart Mitchell, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 27 (1), 2007)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Bern, Switzerland
Uli M. Huber
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Harald K. M. Bugmann
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The Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland
Mel A. Reasoner
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Change and Mountain Regions
Book Subtitle: An Overview of Current Knowledge
Editors: Uli M. Huber, Harald K. M. Bugmann, Mel A. Reasoner
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3508-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3506-7Published: 07 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3507-4Published: 06 October 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3508-1Published: 09 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 652
Topics: Pollution, general, Environment, general, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts