Global Change and Mountain Regions An Overview of Current Knowledge /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Huber, Uli M. (Editor), Bugmann, Harald K. M. (Editor), Reasoner, Mel A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 23
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Pollution.; Pollution, general.; Environment, general.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

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 depen...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents: Introduction. T. Hofer; The International Year of Mountains, Challenge and opportunity for mountain research
• Part I: Paleoenvironmental Changes
• Part II: Cryospheric Changes
• Part III: Hydrological Changes
• Part IV: Ecological Changes
• Part V: Human Dimensions
• Synthesis
• A. Björnsen, U. M. Huber, M. Reasoner, B. Messerli, H. Bugmann; Future research direction.