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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Future of Mountain Agriculture
  name:
    name part: Mann, Stefan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 178 p. online resource.
  abstract: Mountain agriculture is a socially and culturally unique system, but also a regionally important economic sector. In a globalising world, it is clear that fertile areas on all continents will always be used to produce large quantities of agricultural products in order to feed the world and, increasingly, provide biomass as a source of energy. It is far less clear, however, how land use in steep and more peripheral regions will evolve. By definition, farmland in mountain areas is more difficult to work because of steep slopes and missing accessibility. Climate conditions and poor soil quality often add to these adverse conditions. Through overcoming limited views from one region only or from one discipline, this book intends to draw a first truly international perspective on the issue of mountain farming.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Land Use and Landscape Change in the Rockies: Implications for Mountain Agriculture -- Conservation Agriculture in the Andean Highlands: Promise and Precautions -- Enhancing crop diversity and livelihood security in the Andes through the emergence of agricultural innovation systems -- The future of agriculture in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco: The need to integrate traditional ecological knowledge -- Climate Change and the future of Mountain Farming on Mt. Kilimanjaro -- Is mountain farming no longer viable? -- The complex dynamics of farming abandonment in the Pyrenees -- Future of Mountain agriculture in the Alps -- Food Security Challenges and Agricultural Development in Tajikistan -- Impact of natural resources and infrastructure on future livelihood in mountain farming in the Himalaya region.
  note: edited by Stefan Mann.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  classification: HT390-395
  classification: HT165.5-169.9
  classification: 710
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Geography
  identifier: 9783642335846
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33584-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 121116
    record change date: 20151125221907.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-33584-6