Ecological Guidelines For Balanced Land Use Conservation And Development In High Mountains
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Ecological Guidelines For Balanced Land Use Conservation And Development In High Mountains
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Author : Raymond Fredric Dasmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Ecological Guidelines For Balanced Land Use Conservation And Development In High Mountains written by Raymond Fredric Dasmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Alpine regions categories.
Prepared for the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the World Wildlife Fund.
Environmental Guidelines For Settlements Planning And Management
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Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
language : en
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
Release Date : 1987
Environmental Guidelines For Settlements Planning And Management written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and has been published by UN-HABITAT this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Environmental policy categories.
Guidelines For Planning And Managing Mountain Protected Areas
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Author : Lawrence S. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: IUCN
Release Date : 2004
Guidelines For Planning And Managing Mountain Protected Areas written by Lawrence S. Hamilton and has been published by IUCN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Mountain ecology categories.
Key Issues For Mountain Areas
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Author : Martin F. Price
language : en
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Release Date : 2004
Key Issues For Mountain Areas written by Martin F. Price and has been published by United Nations University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Mountain areas cover almost one quarter of the earth's land surface, with a quarter of the global population living on them or very close by, and they are sources of water, food, timber, minerals and other natural resources. They provide many opportunities for recreation, as well as being centres of biological and cultural diversity and religious significance. Unfortunately, mountain environments and populations are also particularly threatened by climate change and political conflicts, and their inhabitants include many of the poorest and most vulnerable in the world. This publication includes a number of papers which explore a range of sustainable development challenges for mountain regions.
Environmental Guidelines For Settlements Planning And Management Environmental Considerations In Metropolitan Planning And Management Mpm
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Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
language : en
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
Release Date : 1987
Environmental Guidelines For Settlements Planning And Management Environmental Considerations In Metropolitan Planning And Management Mpm written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and has been published by UN-HABITAT this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with City planning categories.
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
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Author : Lawrence S. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests written by Lawrence S. Hamilton and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud forests (hereaf ter usually referred to as TMCFs) of the world had scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the downslope montane and lowland forests. TMCFs are not hospitable environments for human occupation, and their remoteness (except in places near Andean high mountain settlements and in the Ethiopian Highlands) and difficult terrain have given them de facto protection. The ad jacent upper montane rain forests have indeed been under assault for timber, fuelwood, and for conversion to grazing and agriculture for many decades, even centuries in the Andes, but true cloud forest has only come under ex ploitation as these lower elevational resources have disappeared. They have also been "nibbled" at from above where there have been alpine grasslands under grazing pressure. Increasingly now, however, these cloud forest eco systems are being fragmented, reduced, and disturbed at an alarming rate. It is now becoming recognized that steps must be taken rapidly to increase our understanding of TMCF and to achieve their conservation, because: their water-capture function is extremely important to society; • their species endemism is high; they serve as refugia for endangered species being marginalized in these environments by increasingly transformed lower elevation ecosystems; they are relatively little studied; yet, their value to science is extremely high; they have low resilience to disturbance; vii viii Preface and many other reasons, which will be discussed subsequently in this publi cation.
Mountain World In Danger
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Author : Sten Nilsson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Mountain World In Danger written by Sten Nilsson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Business & Economics categories.
The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the cryosphere) not only play a major part in our climatic system, but are also central to our water supplies. Yet our glaciers are shrinking, our lakes and soils are becoming acidified, our forests are damaged and the whole fragile ecosystem of ranges like the Alps and the Caucasus is threatened. Nilsson and Pitt present the evidence and assess the probable effects of these changes on mountain society, tourism, water, flora and fauna. They also examine the uncertainties. Above all they look, too, at the best possible strategies in response to What is happening and at what the next steps should be. Originally published in 1991
High Mountain Conservation In A Changing World
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Author : Jordi Catalan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-03
High Mountain Conservation In A Changing World written by Jordi Catalan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with Nature categories.
This book provides case studies and general views of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains and analyses the implications for nature conservation. Case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, with a comprehensive set of mountain ranges surrounded by highly populated lowland areas also being considered. The introductory and closing chapters will summarise the main challenges that nature conservation may face in mountain areas under the environmental shifting conditions. Further chapters put forward approaches from environmental geography, functional ecology, biogeography, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Organisms from microbes to large carnivores, and ecosystems from lakes to forest will be considered. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to researchers in mountain ecosystems, students and nature professionals. This book is open access under a CC BY license.
Agriculture Handbook
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Agriculture Handbook written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Agriculture categories.
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Forest Production For Tropical America
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Author : Frank Howard Wadsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Forest Production For Tropical America written by Frank Howard Wadsworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Deforestation categories.