People, Protected Areas and Global Change. Volume 3

Global Change and Protected Areas

✍ Alfred Becker, Harald Bugmann (auth.), Guido Visconti, Martin Beniston, Emilio D 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

<p>High mountains can be considered as particularly appropriate environments to detect effects ofclimate change on natural biocoenoses in a global scale for the following reasons: Firstly, ecosystems at the l- temperature limits of plant life are generally thought to be especially sensitive to clima

Global Change and Protected Areas

📁 Global Change and Protected Areas

✍ Guido Visconti, Martin Beniston, Emilio D. Iannorelli, Diego Barba 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

The scope of this book is to show that protected areas may be the regions where early signs of the impact of global change can be observed. These signs are not limited to physical parameters like temperature, precipitation, etc. but could include changes in the biosphere and in social behavior.

Global Change and Protected Areas (Advan

📁 Global Change and Protected Areas (Advances in Global Change Research)

✍ Guido Visconti, M. Beniston, Emilio D. Iannorelli, Diego Barba 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

The scope of this book is to show that protected areas may be the regions where early signs of the impact of global change can be observed. These signs are not limited to physical parameters like temperature, precipitation, etc. but could include changes in the biosphere and in social behavior.

Managing Protected Areas: People and Pla

📁 Managing Protected Areas: People and Places

✍ Niall Finneran (editor), Denise Hewlett (editor), Richard Clarke (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

<p><span>This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and green and blue spaces. It focuses on issues surrounding the importance

Urban Areas and Global Climate Change

📁 Urban Areas and Global Climate Change

✍ William Holt; Ray Hutchison 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Emerald Publishing Limited 🌐 English

Examining urban environmental issues at the macro, municipal level down to the micro community and individual level, this volume features cities and metropolitan regions across the global north and south with case studies from the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe to India, Central A

Conservation Through Cultural Survival:

📁 Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples And Protected Areas

✍ Stanley Stevens, Paul Sneed, Bernard Nietschmann, Terry DeLacy Dean, Peter Herli 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Island Press 🌐 English

For more than a century the establishment of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous people. The creation of parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecosy