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MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES IN TRANSITION: EFFECTS OF LAND USE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

by Udo Schickhoff; R.B. Singh; Suraj Mal; et al

Published by Springer Nature Switzerland Ag. 2022

Very good condition. Sustainable Development Goals series. 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. Green cardwraps. colour illustrations and charts. xxii and 656 pages.

Covers bowed and slightly edge-creased through reading use. Text block slightly grubby. Prelims knocked at lower edge. Contents clean. A decent copy.

ISBN: 9783030702403
Stock no. 1831245

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Contents

  • 1 The World's Mountains in the Anthropocene
  • Part I Climate Change and Response Processes of Mountain Environments
  • 2 Markers of Climate Change: Analysing Extreme Temperature Indices Over the Himalayan Mountains and Adjoining Punjab Plans
  • 3 Spatial Variations and Long-Term Trends (1901-2013) of Rainfall Across Uttarakhand Himalaya, Indix
  • 4 Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity in Glaciers Response Across Western Himalaya
  • 5 Temporal Variability of the Satopanth Glacier Facies at Sub-pixel Scale, Garhwal Himalaya, India
  • 6 Anticipated Shifting of Thermal and Moisture Boundary Under Changing Climate Across Nepal
  • 7 Quantifying Uncertainties in Climate Change Projection and Its Impact on Water Availability in the Thuli Bheri River Basis, India
  • 8 Decreasing Water Availability as a Threat for Traditional Irrigation-Based Land-Use systems in the Mustang Himalaya/Nepal
  • 9 Glaciers, Climate and People: Holocene Transitions in the Stubai Valley
  • 10 Environmental and Socio-Economic Consequences of Recent Mountain Glacier Fluctuations in Norway
  • 11 Paraglacial Timescale and Sediment Fluxes for Hillslope Land Systems in the Northern Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Canada
  • 12 Distance from Retreating Snowfields Influences Alpine Plant Functional Traits at Glacier National Park, Montana
  • 13 Environmental Drivers of Species Composition and Tree Species Density of a Near-Natural Central Himalayan Treeline Ecotone: Consequences for the Response to Climate Change
  • 14 Modelling the Ecological Niche of a Treeline Tree Species (Betula utilis) in the Himalayas - A Methodological Overview
  • 15 Conifer Growth During Warming Hiatus in the Altay-Sayan Mountain Region, Siberia
  • 16 Climate-Induced Fir (Abies Sibirica Ledeb). Mortality in the Siberian Mountains
  • 17 Climate Change and Dynamics of Vegetation in the Lesser Caucasus: An Overview
  • 18 Changing Climate Scenerio in High Altitude Regions: Comparison of Observed Trends and Perceptions of Agro-Pastoralists in Darma Valley, Uttarakhand, India
  • 19 Current Crisis and Future Woes: The Case of Climate Change in the Drakensberg Mountains Region of Southern Africa and its Socio-economic Impacts in the Region
  • Part II Response Processes of Mountain Environments to Land Use Change
  • 20 Assessment and Prediction of Land Use / Land Cover Changes of Beas Basin Using a Modelling Approach
  • 21 Dynamics of Land-Use/Cover Change in Mizoram, Eastern Extension of Himalaya
  • 22 Changing Scenario of Tropical Forests Due to Shifting Cultivation in the Indo-Burma Bio-Geographical Hotspot: A Study on Three Major Hill Ranges of Tripura, North-East India
  • 23 Urbanisation in Himalaya - An Interregional Perspective to Land Use and Urban Growth Dynamics
  • 24 The Changing Landscape of the Plantation Sector in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka
  • 25 Mountain Pastures of Qilian Shan Under Continuous Grazing: Main Environmental Gradients, Vegetation Composition and Soil Properties
  • 26 Mountain Habitats Dynamics Under Changing Grazing Managements Schemes in Greece
  • 27 Landscape Dynamics in the Northwestern Mountains of the Iberian Peninsula: Case Study Ancares-Courel Mountain Range
  • 28 History of Vegetation and Land-Use Change in the Northern Calcareious Alps (Germany/Austria)
  • 29 Assessing the Impact of Climate Change versus Land Use on Tree and Forest Line Dynamics in Norway
  • 30 Social-Ecological Technical Misalignments Threaten Mountain Water Tower Resilience in Utah, USA
  • 31 Changing Paradigm in Transboundary Landscape Management: A Retrospect from the Hindu Kush Himalaya

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