1st Edition

Mountain Environments

By Romola Parish Copyright 2002
    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book breaks the ground in Geographical texts by transcending a strictly regional or topical focus.  It presents the opportunities and constraints that mountains and their resources offer to local and global populations; the impacts of environmental and economic change, development and globalisation on mountain environments. Part of the Ecogeography series edited by Richard Hugget

    List of Figures
    List of Plates
    List of Tables
    Introduction
    Part 1: Evolution of Mountain Landscapes
    1: The making and shaping of mountains
    2: Mountain climate and climate change
    3: Mountain geoecology
    Part 2: Mountain Peoples and Cultures
    4: Mountain culture
    5: The socio-political environment of mountain communities
    6: Mountain populations and demographic change
    Part 3: Mountain Resources and Resource Use
    7: Resources: Land
    8: Water resources of mountain regions
    9: Mountain agro-economies and livelihood strategies
    Part 4: Managing Mountains: Development, Conservation and Degradation
    10: Catastrophe or capacity
    11: Conservation and biodiversity
    12: Mountain tourism
    Epilogue: Mountains: Blessed or Blighted Features?
    Bibliography

    Biography

    Romola Parish