Environmental change in mountains and uplands

By:

"Beniston, Martin"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Hodder Headline Group; 2000Description: 172pISBN:

9780340706381

Subject(s):

Mountains environment

DDC classification:

333.7 BEN

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	333.7 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		93757

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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.

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