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Author : Jack D. Ives
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Geoecology Of The Colorado Front Range written by Jack D. Ives and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1980-09-16 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick J. Webber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429727356
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book High Altitude Geoecology written by Patrick J. Webber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with section 6 of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program, "Impact of Human Activities on Temperate and Tropical Mountain and Tundra Ecosystems."
Author : Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940151254X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Mountain Timberlines written by Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about 40 years 1 have been engaged in timberline research. Thus, one could suppose that writing this book should not have been too difficult. It was harder, however, than expected, and in the end 1 feIt that more questions had arisen than could be answered within its pages. Perhaps it would have been easier to write the book twenty years aga and then leave the subject to mature. But the late Prof. Heinz Ellenberg convinced me to portray a much needed and complete pieture of what we know of the timberline with special respect to its great physiognomie, structural and ecological variety. The first version of this book was published in the German language (Holt meier, 2000). An extensive summary and translated figure and photo cap tions and table headings were added to enable non-German speaking people to make use of the book as weIl. Nevertheless, 1 was very delighted when Prof. Martin Beniston encouraged me to prepare an English edition for the series "Advances in Global Change Research", which will guarantee a wider circulation.
Author : Martin Beniston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134852355
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Mountain Environments in Changing Climates written by Martin Beniston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to large numbers of people, sources of water, centres of tourism, and sensitive ecological zones, mountain environments share distinctive climactic characteristics. Once regarded as economically non-viable regions, mountains now attract major investment as sites of tourism, hydro-power and communication routes. This book brings together some of the current work on the physical and human ecology of mountain environments, the impacts of climate change, the processes involved and their observation and prediction.
Author : Martin F. Price
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254317
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Mountain Geography written by Martin F. Price and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-08-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain Geography is a comprehensive resource that gives readers an in-depth understanding of the geographical processes that occur in the world's mountains and the impact of these regions on culture and society. The volume begins with an introduction that defines mountains, followed by a comprehensive treatment of their physical geography, including origins, climatology, snow and ice, landforms and geomorphic processes, soils, vegetation, and wildlife. The concluding chapters discuss the human geography of mountains and our attitudes toward them, populations in the mountain regions and their livelihoods and interactions within dynamic environments, the diversity of mountain agriculture, and the challenges of sustainable mountain development. -- Book Jacket.
Author : William D. Bowman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195344294
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem written by William D. Bowman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will provide a complete overview of an alpine ecosystem, based on the long-term research conducted at the Niwot Ridge LTER. There is, at present, no general book on alpine ecology. The alpine ecosystem features conditions near the limits of biological existence, and is a useful laboratory for asking more general ecological questions, because it offers large environmental change over relatively short distances. Factors such as macroclimate, microclimate, soil conditions, biota, and various biological factors change on differing scales, allowing insight into the relative contributions of the different factors on ecological outcomes.
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Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gerrard
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262071284
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Mountain Environments written by John Gerrard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples chosen from a variety of geographical settings and scales, A. J. Gerrard presents a novel approach to the study of mountain environments. He provides a framework in which mountains as special environments can be studied and shows how, no matter what their location or origin all mountain regions share common characteristics and undergo similar shaping processes. Gerrard's integrated approach combines ecological, climatological, hydrological, volcanic, and environmental management concerns in a systematic treatment of mountain geomorphology. He begins by examining the special nature of mountains, including a new classification of mountain types. He discusses mountain ecosystems, stressing the interaction between biota, soil, climate, relief, and geology, examines the high-energy systems of weathering and mass movement, and analyzes the role of rivers and hydrology and the processes of slope evolution. Two chapters are devoted to the particular characteristics of glaciation and vulcanism in mountain formation. The book concludes with a discussion of the special problems that human use of mountain regions create, including engineering, natural hazards, soil erosion, and the concept of integrated development. A. J. Gerrard is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Birmingham, England
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Technical Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Alpine and Subalpine Areas of the Front Range, Colorado written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists 993 references covering 25 scientific disciplines ranging from archeology to taxonomy. Research materials associated with the Mountain Research Station and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research are major inclusions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by keyword and author.
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Arctic and Alpine Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Mountain Research and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Ecological Effects of the Lawn Lake Flood of 1982, Rocky Mountain National Park written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark S. Aldenderfer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294745
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Montane Foragers written by Mark S. Aldenderfer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All previous books dealing with prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the high Andes have treated ancient mountain populations from a troglodyte's perspective, as if they were little different from lowlanders who happened to occupy jagged terrain. Early mountain populations have been transformed into generic foragers because the basic nature of high-altitude stress and biological adaptation has not been addressed. In Montane Foragers, Mark Aldenderfer builds a unique and penetrating model of montane foraging that justly shatters this traditional approach to ancient mountain populations. Aldenderfer's investigation forms a methodological and theoretical tour de force that elucidates elevational stress—what it takes for humans to adjust and survive at high altitudes. In a masterful integration of mountain biology and ecology, he emphasizes the nature of hunter-gatherer adaptations to high-mountain environments. He carefully documents the cultural history of Asana, the first stratified, open-air site discovered in the highlands of the south-central Andes. He establishes a number of major occurrences at this revolutionary site, including the origins of plant and animal domestication and transitions to food production, the growth and packing of forager populations, and the advent of some form of complexity and social hierarchy. The rich and diversified archaeological record recovered at Asana—which spans from 10,000 to 3,500 years ago—includes the earliest houses as well as public and ceremonial buildings in the central cordillera. Built, used, and abandoned over many millennia, the Asana structures completely transform our understanding of the antiquity and development of native American architecture. Aldenderfer's detailed archaeological case study of high-elevation foraging adaptation, his description of this extreme environment as a viable human habitat, and his theoretical model of montane foraging create a new understanding of the lifeways of foraging peoples worldwide.
Author : Jack D. Ives
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030960293
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Mountain Development written by Jack D. Ives and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of “Sustainable Mountain Development” is a history of the development of mountain environmental awareness from its origins during the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1973. This provided intellectual input into UNESCO’s MAB Programme, especially MAB-6 (Impact of Human Activities on Mountain Environments), The International Geographical Union’s commission on mountains, and The United Nations University’s (UNU) mountain project, the latter initiated in 1978. All this research and intellectual activity saw its maturation during the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. The major document universally agreed upon was AGENDA 21, with Chapter 13 concentrating on mountain environmental problems which led to 2002 being dedicated as The International Year of Mountains, and December 17th as International Mountain Day. The research that inspired this book, accompanied by intensive environmental and political activity, was initially propagated by a small group of colleagues that ultimately expanded to a world-wide endeavour. The work was recognised by three awards of the King Albert Gold Medal, two RGS Gold Medals, approved by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and countless other awards. It led to the founding of the International Mountain Society in 1980 and its quarterly journal “Mountain Research and Development” (1981). The work expanded into subsequent research efforts, including specific assessments of projected major catastrophes such as the status of the potential outbreak of glacier lakes (GLOFs), the impacts of climate warming, and incorporation of the mountain subsistence men and women whose environmental knowledge was enthusiastically recognized. This edition provides a new epilogue, which outlines the considerable changes to world environmental assessment since the establishment of 2002 as the International Year of Mountains, and notes that 2022 has been designated as the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development.
Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Athol D. Abrahams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000045900
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Download or read book Periglacial Geomorphology written by Athol D. Abrahams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1992, contains the proceedings of the 22nd Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, and highlights the quantity and diversity of periglacial geomorphic research being undertaken in Arctic and alpine environments. The articles explore a variety of geomorphic processes and examine the potential impacts of global change on the nature and extent of permafrost and seasonal ice phenomena.
