Global Change and Mountain Regions: An Overview of Current Knowledge (Advances in Global Change Research)

Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half of humanity. Global Environmental Change threatens the integrity of these systems and their ability to continue providing the goods and services upon which humanity has come to depend. This book provides an overview of the state of research in the various fields pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain regions. More than 60 contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and research on sustainable development are compiled in this volume, and each contribution also provides an outlook on future research directions.