Challenges for Mountain Regions: Tackling Complexity

by Axel Borsdorf

Mountains make up around a third of the surface area of the world's mainland and islands. While they are home to one tenth of the world's population, they provide resources to more than a third of all humans. Mountain areas are hotspots of biodiversity as well as offering recreation, or even recuperation after an illness, for many people. There is cause for concern as global change in the form of climate change and as globalization threatens mountain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3205786521
• ISBN13: 9783205786528
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.