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Mountain Landscapes in Transition : Effects of Land Use and Climate Change by Udo Schickhoff;R.B. Singh;Suraj Mal(eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 deve

Who reads Mountain Landscapes in Transition : Effects of Land Use and Climate Change?

Author

Udo Schickhoff;R.B. Singh;Suraj Mal(eds.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030702380

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Nature, Biology