Mountain Environments in Changing Climates (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Beniston, Martin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134852369
• Artikelnr.: 41689771

Autorenporträt

Martin Beniston

Inhaltsangabe

I: Climate Change in Mountain Regions
1: Past and Potential Future Changes in Mountain Environments
2: The Alps under Local, Regional and Global Pressure
3: Using Multiple High-Resolution Proxy Climate Records to Reconstruct Natural Climate Variability
4: Climate in Europe During the Late Maunder Minimum Period (1675-1715)
5: Accelerated Glacier and Permafrost Changes in the Alps
6: Monitoring Snow Cover Variations in the Alps Using the Alpine Snow Cover Analysis System (ASCAS)
7: Effects of Mesoscale Vegetation Distributions in Mountainous Terrain on Local Climate
8: Climate Scenarios for Mountain Regions
II: Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation
9: Impact of Atmospheric Changes on High Mountain Vegetation
10: Long-Term Vegetation Change in Mountain Environments
11: Latitudinal Variation in the Potential Response of Mountain Ecosystems to Climatic Change
12: Comparing the Behaviour of Mountainous Forest Succession Models in a Changing Climate
13: Ecological Aspects of Climatically-Caused Timberline Fluctuations
14: Recent Changes in the Growth and Establishment of Subalpine Conifers in Western North America
15: Dynamics and Functioning of Rhododendron Ferrugineum Subalpine Heathlands (Northern Alps, France)
16: A Dendrochemical Perspective on the Effects of Climate Change in the Ozark Highlands
17: Phenology as a Tool in Topoclimatology
18: Design of an Intensive Monitoring System for Swiss Forests
III: Socio-Economic Aspects of Climate Change in Mountain Regions
19: Climate Risk Concern in an Alpine Community
20: Environmental Perception, Climate Change, and Tourism
21: Climate Change and Winter Tourism
22: Localizing the Threats of Climate Change in Mountain Environments
23: Sensitivity of Mountain Runoff and Hydro-Electricity to Changing Climate
24: Mountain Environments and Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
25: Evaluating the Effects of Climatic Change on Marginal Agriculture in Upland Areas
26: Toward a Global Network of Mountain Protected Areas
IV: Conclusion
27: Should Mountain Communities Be Concerned about Climate Change?