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9780582419117

Mountain Environments

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  • ISBN13:

    9780582419117

  • ISBN10:

    0582419115

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-11-14
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book breaks the ground in Geographical texts by transcending a strictly regional or topical focus.  It presents the opportunities and constraints that mountains and their resources offer to local and global populations; the impacts of environmental and economic change, development and globalisation on mountain environments.   Part of the Ecogeography series edited by Richard Hugget

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Tables
Introduction
Evolution of Mountain Landscapes
The making and shaping of mountains
Mountain climate and climate change
Mountain geoecology
Mountain Peoples and Cultures
Mountain culture
The socio-political environment of mountain communities
Mountain populations and demographic change
Mountain Resources and Resource Use
Resources: Land
Water resources of mountain regions
Mountain agro-economies and livelihood strategies
Managing Mountains: Development, Conservation and Degradation
Catastrophe or capacity
Conservation and biodiversity
Mountain tourism Epilogue: Mountains: Blessed or Blighted Features?
Bibliography
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