Environmental change in mountains and uplands
"Beniston, Martin"
Environmental change in mountains and uplands - London Hodder Headline Group 2000 - 172p.
Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands provides a 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.
The book includes a review of possible policy implications for adaptation and mitigation strategies in a global context. Working within a broad temporal scale, it draws upon palaeoenvironmental records to document past changes which have occurred in the absence of major anthropogenic influences, as well as utilizing modelling as a means of assessing future environmental change.
9780340706381
Mountains environment
333.7 BEN
Environmental change in mountains and uplands - London Hodder Headline Group 2000 - 172p.
Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands provides a 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.
The book includes a review of possible policy implications for adaptation and mitigation strategies in a global context. Working within a broad temporal scale, it draws upon palaeoenvironmental records to document past changes which have occurred in the absence of major anthropogenic influences, as well as utilizing modelling as a means of assessing future environmental change.
9780340706381
Mountains environment
333.7 BEN