Mountains under Pressure
Mountain forests and alpine ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and endemism, and they are also large global carbon stores. They are highly threatened by climate change, population growth and land use change. Mountains represent an ideal natural laboratory in which the evolution of social–ecological...
Guardat en:
| Format: | Online |
|---|---|
| Idioma: | anglès |
| Publicat: |
MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2023
|
| Matèries: | |
| Accés en línia: | ONIX_20230911_9783036581743_22 |
| Etiquetes: |
Sense etiquetes, Sigues el primer a etiquetar aquest registre!
|
| _version_ | 1869524476100608000 |
|---|---|
| collection | Directory of Open Access Books |
| description | Mountain forests and alpine ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and endemism, and they are also large global carbon stores. They are highly threatened by climate change, population growth and land use change. Mountains represent an ideal natural laboratory in which the evolution of social–ecological systems can be investigated and to the current challenges and opportunities that this past evolution has created can be assessed. Mountains have been centres of past development and conduits for the spread of crops, populations and technologies. They were and remain a locus for cultural interaction, as manifested recently in many parts of the world at the local level through pastoral–agricultural–urban interactions over access to space and resources, particularly water. The relevance and impact of this Special Issue on mountains goes beyond academia, as practitioners and policymakers need key information on the dynamics and changes in threatened ecosystems to help design and implement appropriate management strategies for sustainable mountain futures. |
| format | Online |
| id | doab-20.500.12854ir-113889 |
| institution | Directory of Open Access Books |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2023 |
| publishDateRange | 2023 |
| publishDateSort | 2023 |
| publisher | MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| publisherStr | MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| record_format | ojs |
| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1138892024-03-28T03:31:36Z Mountains under Pressure Marchant, Rob Cuni-Sanchez, Aida environmental perceptions land function rural space karst mountain area Mediterranean Montenegro mountain katun traditional architecture vernacular heritage transhumance extensive cattle rearing ecological indices land abandonment land management meadows mountain agroecosystems mowing tolerance mountain vegetation pastures spreadsheet fractal characteristics natural geographical features water-facing distribution suitable space rural mountain settlements population population trends urbanisation sustainable development deforestation shifting cultivation traditional fallow swiddens land-use change spatial effects small-scale context socio-economic drivers policy assessment CAP policy trade-offs mitigation policies gully agricultural production transformation rural development sustainable land use geographically and temporally weighted regression gully land consolidation farmer Chagga gender East Africa local knowledge Kilimanjaro Hehe Udzungwa wealth groups alpine and montane ecosystems austral perspective environmental sustainability global change long-term research mountain observatories multi-disciplinary research social context socio-ecological coupling Southern Africa model complexity model validation Landsat satellite data species distribution models connectivity fragmentation Maxent functional traits environmental drivers mycorrhizas fourth corner RLQ Andean forests alpine mountains climate change experimental manipulations PRISMA precipitation drought vegetation New Zealand hill country poplar kānuka agroforestry silvopasture soil conservation erosion ecosystem services alien species biological invasions citizen science elevation species abundance tree invasions woody plant encroachment adaptation strategies ethnicity farmers Itombwe Mountains perceptions wealth group n/a thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography Mountain forests and alpine ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and endemism, and they are also large global carbon stores. They are highly threatened by climate change, population growth and land use change. Mountains represent an ideal natural laboratory in which the evolution of social–ecological systems can be investigated and to the current challenges and opportunities that this past evolution has created can be assessed. Mountains have been centres of past development and conduits for the spread of crops, populations and technologies. They were and remain a locus for cultural interaction, as manifested recently in many parts of the world at the local level through pastoral–agricultural–urban interactions over access to space and resources, particularly water. The relevance and impact of this Special Issue on mountains goes beyond academia, as practitioners and policymakers need key information on the dynamics and changes in threatened ecosystems to help design and implement appropriate management strategies for sustainable mountain futures. 2023-09-11T11:53:37Z 2023-09-11T11:53:37Z 2023 book ONIX_20230911_9783036581743_22 9783036581743 9783036581750 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/113889 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/7730 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/7730 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-8175-0 10.3390/books978-3-0365-8175-0 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036581743 9783036581750 334 open access |
| spellingShingle | environmental perceptions land function rural space karst mountain area Mediterranean Montenegro mountain katun traditional architecture vernacular heritage transhumance extensive cattle rearing ecological indices land abandonment land management meadows mountain agroecosystems mowing tolerance mountain vegetation pastures spreadsheet fractal characteristics natural geographical features water-facing distribution suitable space rural mountain settlements population population trends urbanisation sustainable development deforestation shifting cultivation traditional fallow swiddens land-use change spatial effects small-scale context socio-economic drivers policy assessment CAP policy trade-offs mitigation policies gully agricultural production transformation rural development sustainable land use geographically and temporally weighted regression gully land consolidation farmer Chagga gender East Africa local knowledge Kilimanjaro Hehe Udzungwa wealth groups alpine and montane ecosystems austral perspective environmental sustainability global change long-term research mountain observatories multi-disciplinary research social context socio-ecological coupling Southern Africa model complexity model validation Landsat satellite data species distribution models connectivity fragmentation Maxent functional traits environmental drivers mycorrhizas fourth corner RLQ Andean forests alpine mountains climate change experimental manipulations PRISMA precipitation drought vegetation New Zealand hill country poplar kānuka agroforestry silvopasture soil conservation erosion ecosystem services alien species biological invasions citizen science elevation species abundance tree invasions woody plant encroachment adaptation strategies ethnicity farmers Itombwe Mountains perceptions wealth group n/a thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography Mountains under Pressure |
| title | Mountains under Pressure |
| title_full | Mountains under Pressure |
| title_fullStr | Mountains under Pressure |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mountains under Pressure |
| title_short | Mountains under Pressure |
| title_sort | mountains under pressure |
| topic | environmental perceptions land function rural space karst mountain area Mediterranean Montenegro mountain katun traditional architecture vernacular heritage transhumance extensive cattle rearing ecological indices land abandonment land management meadows mountain agroecosystems mowing tolerance mountain vegetation pastures spreadsheet fractal characteristics natural geographical features water-facing distribution suitable space rural mountain settlements population population trends urbanisation sustainable development deforestation shifting cultivation traditional fallow swiddens land-use change spatial effects small-scale context socio-economic drivers policy assessment CAP policy trade-offs mitigation policies gully agricultural production transformation rural development sustainable land use geographically and temporally weighted regression gully land consolidation farmer Chagga gender East Africa local knowledge Kilimanjaro Hehe Udzungwa wealth groups alpine and montane ecosystems austral perspective environmental sustainability global change long-term research mountain observatories multi-disciplinary research social context socio-ecological coupling Southern Africa model complexity model validation Landsat satellite data species distribution models connectivity fragmentation Maxent functional traits environmental drivers mycorrhizas fourth corner RLQ Andean forests alpine mountains climate change experimental manipulations PRISMA precipitation drought vegetation New Zealand hill country poplar kānuka agroforestry silvopasture soil conservation erosion ecosystem services alien species biological invasions citizen science elevation species abundance tree invasions woody plant encroachment adaptation strategies ethnicity farmers Itombwe Mountains perceptions wealth group n/a thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography |
| topic_facet | environmental perceptions land function rural space karst mountain area Mediterranean Montenegro mountain katun traditional architecture vernacular heritage transhumance extensive cattle rearing ecological indices land abandonment land management meadows mountain agroecosystems mowing tolerance mountain vegetation pastures spreadsheet fractal characteristics natural geographical features water-facing distribution suitable space rural mountain settlements population population trends urbanisation sustainable development deforestation shifting cultivation traditional fallow swiddens land-use change spatial effects small-scale context socio-economic drivers policy assessment CAP policy trade-offs mitigation policies gully agricultural production transformation rural development sustainable land use geographically and temporally weighted regression gully land consolidation farmer Chagga gender East Africa local knowledge Kilimanjaro Hehe Udzungwa wealth groups alpine and montane ecosystems austral perspective environmental sustainability global change long-term research mountain observatories multi-disciplinary research social context socio-ecological coupling Southern Africa model complexity model validation Landsat satellite data species distribution models connectivity fragmentation Maxent functional traits environmental drivers mycorrhizas fourth corner RLQ Andean forests alpine mountains climate change experimental manipulations PRISMA precipitation drought vegetation New Zealand hill country poplar kānuka agroforestry silvopasture soil conservation erosion ecosystem services alien species biological invasions citizen science elevation species abundance tree invasions woody plant encroachment adaptation strategies ethnicity farmers Itombwe Mountains perceptions wealth group n/a thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography |
| url | ONIX_20230911_9783036581743_22 |