Overview

Mountain regions encompass nearly 24 percent of the total land surface of the earth and are home to approximately 12 percent of the world’s population. Their ecosystems play a critical role in sustaining human life both in the highlands and the lowlands. During recent years, resource use in high mountain areas has changed mainly in response to the globalization of the economy and increased world population. As a result, mountain regions are undergoing rapid environmental change, exploitation, and depletion of natural resources leading to ecological imbalances and economic unsustainability. Moreover, the changing climatic conditions have stressed mountain ecosystems through higher mean annual temperatures and the melting of glaciers and snow. Altered precipitation patterns have also had an impact. This book addresses these critical issues and looks at ways to stop the downward spiral of resource degradation, rural poverty, and food and livelihood insecurity in mountain regions. The book also discusses new and comprehensive approaches to mountain development that are needed to identify sustainable resource development practices, how to strengthen local institutions and knowledge systems, and how to increase the resilience between mountain environments and their inhabitants.

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Author:   Velma I. Grover ,  Axel Borsdorf ,  Jürgen Breuste ,  Prakash Chandra Tiwari
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   CRC Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.861kg
ISBN:  

9781482208900

ISBN 10:   1482208903
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   19 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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This book will be welcomed by environmental and social scientists for its review of strategies for coping with environmental changes in mountain areas. It contains 22 chapters which treat a global range of topics, with an emphasis on developing nations. The first seven chapters cover general topics, including the drivers of change, strategies for adaptation and mitigation, and relevant legal issues in mountain areas. case studies from the world's mountains, are the more valuable part of the book because they focus on social systems and their responses to change in the mountains of the developing world and tropics. Overall, this is a useful contribution Choice, October 2015

This book will be welcomed by environmental and social scientists for its review of strategies for coping with environmental changes in mountain areas. ... Each chapter includes a comprehensive set of references and figures, some of which are also reproduced as color plates in the appendix. Overall, this is a useful contribution. ... Summing up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. -N. Caine, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA for CHOICE, October 2015

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Velma I. Grover, Axel Borsdorf, Jürgen Heinz Breuste, Prakash Chandra Tiwari, Flavia Witkowski Frangetto

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