Global Change In The Mountains

Author : Uli M. Huber,Harald K.M. Bugmann,Mel A. Reasoner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402035081

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Global Change and Mountain Regions by Uli M. Huber,Harald K.M. Bugmann,Mel A. Reasoner Pdf

This book gives an overview of the state of research in fields pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain regions. More than sixty contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies are compiled in this volume, each with an outlook on future research directions. The book will interest meteorologists, geologists, botanists and climatologists.

Author : Velma I. Grover,Axel Borsdorf,Jürgen Breuste,Prakash Chandra Tiwari,Flavia Witkowski Frangetto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781482208917

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Impact of Global Changes on Mountains by Velma I. Grover,Axel Borsdorf,Jürgen Breuste,Prakash Chandra Tiwari,Flavia Witkowski Frangetto Pdf

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

Author : Jessica Halofsky,David L. Peterson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319569284

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Climate Change and Rocky Mountain Ecosystems by Jessica Halofsky,David L. Peterson Pdf

This book is the result of a team of approximately 100 scientists and resource managers who worked together for two years to understand the effects of climatic variability and change on water resources, fisheries, forest vegetation, non-forest vegetation, wildlife, recreation, cultural resources and ecosystem services. Adaptation options, both strategic and tactical, were developed for each resource area. This information is now being applied in the northern rocky Mountains to ensure long-term sustainability in resource conditions. The volume chapters provide a technical assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on natural and cultural resources, based on best available science, including new analyses obtained through modeling and synthesis of existing data. Each chapter also contains a summary of adaptation strategies (general) and tactics (on-the-ground actions) that have been developed by science-management teams.

Author : Mauri Pelto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119068112

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Recent Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers by Mauri Pelto Pdf

Glaciers are considered a key and an iconic indicator of climate change. The World Glacier Monitoring Service has noted that global alpine balance has been negative for 35 consecutive years. This highlights the dire future that alpine glaciers face. The goal of this volume is to tell the story, glacier by glacier, of response to climate change from 1984-2015. Of the 165 glaciers examined in 10 different alpine regions, 162 have retreated significantly. It is evident that the changes are significant, not happening at a "glacial" pace, and are profoundly affecting alpine regions. There is a consistent result that reverberates from mountain range to mountain range, which emphasizes that although regional glacier and climate feedbacks differ, global changes are driving the response. This book considers ten different glaciated regions around the individual glaciers, and offers a different tune to the same chorus of glacier volume loss in the face of climate change.

Author : Donald McKenzie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030424329

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Mountains in the Greenhouse by Donald McKenzie Pdf

This book is written for general readers with an interest in science, and offers the tools and ideas for understanding how climate change will affect mountains of the American West. A major goal of the book is to provide material that will not become quickly outdated, and it does so by conveying its topics through constants in ecological science that will remain unchanged and scientifically sound. The book is timely in its potential to be a long-term contribution, and is designed to inform the public about climate change in mountains accessibly and intelligibly. The major themes of the book include: 1) mountains of the American West as natural experiments that can distinguish the effects of climate change because they have been relatively free from human-caused changes, 2) mountains as regions with unique sensitivities that may change more rapidly than the Earth as a whole and foreshadow the nature and magnitude of change elsewhere, and 3) different interacting components of ecosystems in the face of a changing climate, including forest growth and mortality, ecological disturbance, and mountain hydrology. Readers will learn how these changes and interactions in mountains illuminate the complexity of ecological changes in other contexts around the world.

Author : Sten Nilsson,David Pitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134041183

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Mountain World in Danger by Sten Nilsson,David Pitt Pdf

The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the cryosphere) not only play a major part in our climatic system, but are also central to our water supplies. Yet our glaciers are shrinking, our lakes and soils are becoming acidified, our forests are damaged and the whole fragile ecosystem of ranges like the Alps and the Caucasus is threatened. Nilsson and Pitt present the evidence and assess the probable effects of these changes on mountain society, tourism, water, flora and fauna. They also examine the uncertainties. Above all they look, too, at the best possible strategies in response to What is happening and at what the next steps should be. Originally published in 1991

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:935688390

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Mountains and Climate Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ch. Korner,E.M. Spehn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000699012

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Mountain Biodiversity by Ch. Korner,E.M. Spehn Pdf

Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments. The book was birthed from the first global conference on mountain biodiversity and was a contribution to the International Year of Mountains in 2002. The book examines biological diversity as essential for the integrity of mountain ecosystems and argues that this dependency is likely to increase as environmental climates and social conditions change. This book seeks to examine the biological riches of all major mountain ranges, from around the world and using existing knowledge on mountain biodiversity, examines a broad range of research in diversity, including that of plants, animals, human and bacterial diversity. The book also examines climate change and mountain biodiversity as well as land use and conservation.

Author : Jordi Catalan,Josep M Ninot,M. Mercè Aniz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319559827

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High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World by Jordi Catalan,Josep M Ninot,M. Mercè Aniz Pdf

This book provides case studies and general views of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains and analyses the implications for nature conservation. Case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, with a comprehensive set of mountain ranges surrounded by highly populated lowland areas also being considered. The introductory and closing chapters will summarise the main challenges that nature conservation may face in mountain areas under the environmental shifting conditions. Further chapters put forward approaches from environmental geography, functional ecology, biogeography, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Organisms from microbes to large carnivores, and ecosystems from lakes to forest will be considered. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to researchers in mountain ecosystems, students and nature professionals. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

Author : M.F. Price
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1850700621

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Global Change in the Mountains by M.F. Price Pdf

This volume contains data and analyses of the role and significance of global change for mountain regions and peoples. In nine major sections containing 78 extended abstracts, the book documents scientific findings concerning the role of mountains in the Earth system, especially in regard to the climate, functioning of ecosystems, and transport of materials and water, as well as the role of mountains in providing homes and jobs. The book's nine main sections cover the mountain regions of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This volume is a product of a project of the European Union's (EU) European Network for Research in Global Change, known as ENRICH, and a key contribution to understanding the integration of earth system and human system perspectives that underpin the philosophy of the Fifth EU Research and Technological Development Framework Programme. Includes bibliographic references, a list of acronyms, and index. This volume is the Proceedings of the European Conference on Environmental and Societal Change in Mountain Regions held in Oxford, UK, 18-20 December 1997.

Author : Martin Beniston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317836025

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Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands by Martin Beniston Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1039879916

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Mountains and Climate Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Renato Baudo,Gianni Tartari,Elisa Vuillermoz
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080548741

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Mountains: Witnesses of Global Changes by Renato Baudo,Gianni Tartari,Elisa Vuillermoz Pdf

From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet. Only through distribution of meteoclimatic and atmospheric composition monitoring points in mountain regions, coupled with modelling simulations, will we be able to thoroughly analyze complex pollutant transport mechanisms and better understand imminent global changes. The Himalayan-Karakoram range. For its elevation and geographic location, represents one of the ideal places for studying long-range pollutant transport systems on a regional scale and for monitoring changes index by mechanisms that act on global scale through monsoon circulation. The Ev-K2-CNR committee with this book reached its objective of creating a unique opportunity for dialogue between major environmental scientists and experts, highlighting the close relationship between diverse themes with a common underlying thread: in-depth comprehension of the environmental phenomena which are determining the health of our planet.

Author : Nadine Salzmann,Christian Huggel,Samuel U. Nussbaumer,Gina Ziervogel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319407739

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Climate Change Adaptation Strategies – An Upstream-downstream Perspective by Nadine Salzmann,Christian Huggel,Samuel U. Nussbaumer,Gina Ziervogel Pdf

Climate change and the related adverse impacts are among the greatest challenges facing humankind during the coming decades. Even with a significant reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, it will be inevitable for societies to adapt to new climatic conditions and associated impacts and risks. This book offers insights to first experiences of developing and implementing adaptation measures, with a particular focus on mountain environments and the adjacent downstream areas. It provides a comprehensive ‘state-of-the-art’ of climate change adaptation in these areas through the collection and evaluation of knowledge from several local and regional case studies and by offering new expertise and insights at the global level. As such, the book is an important source for scientists, practitioners and decision makers alike, who are working in the field of climate change adaptation and towards sustainable development in the sense of the Paris Agreement and the Agenda 2030.

Author : Udo Schickhoff,R.B. Singh,Suraj Mal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030702380

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Mountain Landscapes in Transition by Udo Schickhoff,R.B. Singh,Suraj Mal Pdf

This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned. The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain response, providing transdisciplinary orientation to mountain studies incorporating experiences of academics, community leaders and policy-makers from developed and less developed countries. The book chapters are arranged in two sections. The first section concerns the response processes of mountain environments to climate change. This section addresses climate change itself (past, current and future changes of temperature and precipitation) and its impacts on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and human-environment systems. The second section focuses on the response processes of mountain environments to land use/land cover change. The case studies address effects of changing agriculture and pastoralism, forest/water resources management and urbanization processes, landscape management, and biodiversity conservation. The book is designed as an interdisciplinary publication which critically evaluates developments in mountains of the world with contributions from both social and natural sciences.