Climate Change in the European Alps Adapting Winter Tourism and Natural Hazards Management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Change in the European Alps Adapting Winter Tourism and Natural Hazards Management write by OECD. This book was released on 2007-01-18. Climate Change in the European Alps Adapting Winter Tourism and Natural Hazards Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first systematic cross-country analysis of snow-reliability of Alpine ski areas under climate change for five countries in the region: France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Germany.
Glaciers and Climate Change
Glaciers and Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glaciers and Climate Change write by Michael Zemp. This book was released on 2006. Glaciers and Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Views from the Alps
Views from the Alps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Views from the Alps write by Peter Cebon. This book was released on 1998. Views from the Alps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although climate change is a global problem, there is growing recognition of the need to look at its regional manifestations and management. This book takes such an approach to the Alpine region. The result of the ongoing Swiss research program Climate and Environment in the Alpine Region [Clear], it incorporates the work of an independent network of approximately fifty researchers from a variety of disciplines.
Mountain World in Danger
Mountain World in Danger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain World in Danger write by Sten Nilsson. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Mountain World in Danger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change write by Sven Rannow. This book was released on 2014-01-18. Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with an overview of data and concepts developed in the EU-project HABIT-CHANGE, this book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. There is an urgent need to build capacity in protected areas to monitor, assess, manage and report the effects of climate change and their interaction with other pressures. The contributors identify barriers to the adaptation of conservation management, such as the mismatch between planning reality and the decision context at site level. Short and vivid descriptions of case studies, drawn from investigation areas all over Central and Eastern Europe, illustrate both the local impacts of climate change and their consequences for future management. These focus on ecosystems most vulnerable to changes in climatic conditions, including alpine areas, wetlands, forests, lowland grasslands and coastal areas. The case studies demonstrate the application of adaptation strategies in protected areas like National Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Natural Parks, and reflect the potential benefits as well as existing obstacles. A general section provides the necessary background information on climate trends and their effects on abiotic and biotic components. Often, the parties to policy change and conservation management, including managers, land users and stakeholders, lack both expertise and incentives to undertake adaptation activities. The authors recognise that achieving the needed changes in behavior – habit – is as much a social learning process as a matter of science-based procedure. They describe the implementation of modeling, impact assessment and monitoring of climate conditions, and show how the results can support efforts to increase stakeholder involvement in local adaptation strategies. The book concludes by pointing out the need for more work to communicate the cross-sectoral nature of biodiversity protection, the value of well-informed planning in the long-term process of adaptation, the definition of acceptable change, and the motivational value of exchanging experience and examples of good practice.
