Overview
- With important contributions from international researchers associated with global mountain research initiatives
- Bridges wider knowledge gaps about changing world mountain systems as a result of climate and land use change
- Accessible for government officials, policy makers, scientific community, NGOs and community leaders
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Climate Change and Response Processes of Mountain Environments
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Keywords
About this book
This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned.
The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain response, providing transdisciplinary orientation to mountain studies incorporating experiences of academics, community leaders and policy-makers from developed and less developed countries. The book chapters are arranged in two sections. The first section concerns the response processes of mountain environments to climate change. This section addresses climate change itself (past, current and future changes of temperature and precipitation) and its impacts on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and human-environment systems.The second section focuses on the response processes of mountain environments to land use/land cover change. The case studies address effects of changing agriculture and pastoralism, forest/water resources management and urbanization processes, landscape management, and biodiversity conservation.
The book is designed as an interdisciplinary publication which critically evaluates developments in mountains of the world with contributions from both social and natural sciences.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mountain Landscapes in Transition
Book Subtitle: Effects of Land Use and Climate Change
Editors: Udo Schickhoff, R.B. Singh, Suraj Mal
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70238-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70237-3Published: 03 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70240-3Published: 04 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70238-0Published: 02 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 656
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 240 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Climate Change, Environmental Geography