Mountain Environments in Changing Climates

Mountain Environments in Changing Climates
ISBN-10
1134852355
ISBN-13
9781134852352
Category
Science
Pages
496
Language
English
Published
2002-11-01
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Martin Beniston

Description

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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