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Item Details
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN MOUNTAINS AND UPLANDS
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By: |
Martin Beniston |
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Paperback |
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£34.99 |
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£30.62 |
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ISBN 10: |
0340706368 |
ISBN 13: |
9780340706367 |
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Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
Pub. date: |
27 March, 2000 |
Series: |
Key Issues in Environmental Change |
Pages: |
188 |
Description: |
Mountain environments are often perceived to be austere, isolated, and inhospitable. This work provides an account of fragile and marginal physical and socio-economic systems which make up world's mountain regions. It includes a review of possible implications for adaption and mitigation strategies in a global context. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
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35 b&w illustrations |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Hodder Arnold |
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