Mountain Environments - 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 Environments write by Romola Parish. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Mountain Environments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Mountain Environments
Mountain Environments - 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 Environments write by John Gerrard. This book was released on 1990. Mountain Environments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using examples chosen from a variety of geographical settings and scales, A. J. Gerrard presents a novel approach to the study of mountain environments. He provides a framework in which mountains as special environments can be studied and shows how, no matter what their location or origin all mountain regions share common characteristics and undergo similar shaping processes. Gerrard's integrated approach combines ecological, climatological, hydrological, volcanic, and environmental management concerns in a systematic treatment of mountain geomorphology. He begins by examining the special nature of mountains, including a new classification of mountain types. He discusses mountain ecosystems, stressing the interaction between biota, soil, climate, relief, and geology, examines the high-energy systems of weathering and mass movement, and analyzes the role of rivers and hydrology and the processes of slope evolution. Two chapters are devoted to the particular characteristics of glaciation and vulcanism in mountain formation. The book concludes with a discussion of the special problems that human use of mountain regions create, including engineering, natural hazards, soil erosion, and the concept of integrated development. A. J. Gerrard is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Birmingham, England
Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics
Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics - 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 Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics write by Mark A. Fonstad. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mountains have captured the interests and passions of people for thousands of years. Today, millions of people live within mountain regions, and mountain regions are often areas of accelerated environmental change. This edited volume highlights new understanding of mountain environments and mountain peoples around the world. The understanding of mountain environments and peoples has been a focus of individual researchers for centuries; more recently the interest in mountain regions among researchers has been growing rapidly. The articles contained within are from a wide spectrum of researchers from different parts of the world who address physical, political, theoretical, social, empirical, environmental, methodological, and economic issues focused on the geography of mountains and their inhabitants. The articles in this special issue are organized into three themed sections with very loose boundaries between themes: (1) physical dynamics of mountain environments, (2) coupled human–physical dynamics, and (3) sociocultural dynamics in mountain regions. This book was first published as a special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Mountain Environments and Communities
Mountain Environments and Communities - 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 Environments and Communities write by Don Funnell. This book was released on 2005-08-18. Mountain Environments and Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a broad introduction to the human and physical geography of mountains. The book explains the background physical environment and then explores the environmental and social dimensions of mountain regions.
Mountains & Man
Mountains & Man - 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 Mountains & Man write by Larry W. Price. This book was released on 1981. Mountains & Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book explores the complex processes and features of mountain environments: glaciers, snow and avalanches, landforms, weather and climate, vegetation, soils, and wildlife. A major section analyzes the effects of latitudinal position on these processes and features. There is also an investigation of the origin of mountains, our attitudes towards them, and their manifold implications for us."--Inside front jacket.
