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: 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
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
Global Mountain Regions
Global Mountain Regions - 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 Global Mountain Regions write by Ann Kingsolver. This book was released on 2018-09-01. Global Mountain Regions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Works exploring the responses of global mountain communities to the shared challenges and opportunities their unique locations afford them. No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of nations for centuries. They are perceived as remote and socially inferior backwaters on one hand while simultaneously seen as culturally rich and spiritually sacred spaces on the other. These contradictions become even more fraught as environmental changes and political strains place added pressure on these mountain communities. Shifting national borders and changes to watersheds, forests, and natural resources play an increasingly important role as nations respond to the needs of a global economy. The works in this volume consider multiple nations, languages, generations, and religions in their exploration of upland communities’ responses to the unique challenges and opportunities they share. From paintings to digital mapping, environmental studies to poetry, land reclamation efforts to song lyrics, the collection provides a truly interdisciplinary and global study. The editors and authors offer a cross-cultural exploration of the many strategies that mountain communities are employing to face the concerns of the future. “Global Mountain Regions is an outstanding addition to the inventory of the interdisciplinary field of montology, the study of mountains. For any scholar or student interested in the human dimensions of mountain regions, many if not all of the essays will be valuable references.” —American Ethnologist
Design for Mountain Communities
Design for Mountain 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 Design for Mountain Communities write by Sherry Dorward. This book was released on 1990. Design for Mountain Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For landscape architects, architects, planners, developers, and contractors who build in the mountains. Thoughtful coverage of the natural features of these environments such as topography, terrain, climate, and ecosystems, with detailed analysis of their design implications. Illustrated with many bandw photographs (poorly reproduced), good, clear line drawings. Case studies are drawn from North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Includes useful appendices and a substantial number of references. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
